Equipment
RHD. Cycle fenders, chrome wire wheels, dual rear spares, Bosch headlights, 15 fin blower, folding windshield. Which car is this, anyway The chassis number above isnt claimed by RM (the frame is unnumbered) but is apparently reflected in the paperwork. There are at least two other SSK cars running around sharing it. Engine is an SSK originally delivered in chassis 36244 (Kommission 42709) to Mr. Nash in London and bodied by Vanden Plas as a roadster. Passed through Ray Jones hands in 1967 to Robert Morgan who also owned an SSK delivered to Julio Berndt in Buenos Aires and later raced by Carlos Zatuszec. Morgan is dead; Jones claims he never did anything to the car that had this engine except buy and sell it. RMs physical inspection and testing indicates the chassis has never been touched, torched or cut. The body is much newer and of unknown origin. In sound, presentable and driveable condition. Bernie Ecclestone Collection.
Market commentary
It seems like every SSK in the world is traced back to that Zatuszec car in Argentina, and this one is no exception. Fortunately RM was very honest and forthright in cataloging this car and while it may be only an assemblage of more or less original SS and SSK parts (and it seems undeniably to have many of both) it is an outstanding automobile made from the right stuff. Hammering down the road (or up the hill) with the blower howling the driver (and spectators) will care little about the minutiae of its origins or quibble about the price paid.