Originally Posted by FAL
The 196 came in all sorts of versions - long chassis, sort chassis, medium chasis and probably a lot that never made it to a circuit, quite apart from bodywork.
The Connaught streamliner was raced, the Vanwall equivalent wasn't raced. There was a 250F streamliner that I think practiced once but never raced, although the same chassis did with normal bodywork. Gordini? or am I thinking of a sports car. Most of the rest were cockpit bubbles that didn't really work and made the drivers suffer from heat or strange air flow (or lack of it).
I can't open the links.