It’s incredibly irritating when asked to identify a racing car in an ageing photo, but try as you might the brain cells just will not retrieve the information. Recently I found myself precisely in this situation during a regular Zoom gettogether with other like-minded racing enthusiasts around the world. An Australian friend posted the photo in question, showing a rather ugly, long-nosed single-seater. It was plainly French (no Hercule Poirot required for that. In this monochrome print it was that distinctive shade of grey suggesting in reality French bleue…. Oh, and there was a Citroën 2CV parked in the background). I suggested it was perhaps an early Pygmée or a GRAC, but another name was nagging away in the recesses of my mind – Ijust knew I’d seen this machine before.