The history of Veritas racing cars started ion March 1st, 1947 in the small village Hausen upon Andelsbach in Germany. The company's founders Ernst Loof, Lorenz Dietrich, Werner Miehte and the motorcycle pilot Schorsch Meier constructed their first vehicles in a small manufactury. They were pioneers, and their cars were amongst the first German pre-war racing and sporting cars.
Ernst Loof, Founder
A deadal lattice made from thin-walled steel pipes was fused with tubular frame chassis, then covered with a ponton-formed skin. The engine came from used BMW 328-vehicles which were skillfully made usable first and upgraded later.
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In March 1948, the expanding company moved to Messkirch and found a new home in the barracks of the previous "Reichsarbeitsdienstlager" (Reich's Labour Service Camp). In the same year Karl Kling, Germany's best-known automobile racer at that time, won the German Racing Championship piloting a Veritas car: he was head and shoulders above the rest.
That was the beginning for Veritas' triumphant success. Various national and international victories in championship competitions for both sporting and racing cars were to follow. Veritas started to also construct luxury coupés with sonorous names such as "Comet", "Saturn" and "Scorpion" in 1948. They soon became popular and are well remembered until today: Veritas coupés were small, they were fast - and most of all, they were expensive.
The extensive construction of racing cars and sporting coupés as well as an arising crisis of Germany's automotive industry took their toll in 1950, when the small factory had to abondon business.
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