Dan Murphy in his Rislone-backed Winkelmann WDB2 at Road America in June 1970. Copyright Tom Schultz 2012. Used with permission.

New to Dan Murphy (Plymouth/Racine, WI) for 1969 and raced in Central Division SCCA Nationals as well as the SCCA Continental Championship race at Road America in July. He finished fifth at the SCCA Runoffs. He raced the car again in 1970, winning the SCCA National at Lake Afton in August. During most of that season, Murphy's car was entered as the M/W Rislone Special, "M/W" standing for Murphy/Weisse, and research by Jacques Dresang at Kettle Moraine Preservation & Restoration indicates that this was the Winkelmann again. Dresang believes that the Winkelmann was badly damaged at some point late in 1970. Murphy's team created a new car, the Cicada Mk 1, for 1971, and examination of this car shows that it contains a lot of Winkelmann components. It is therefore likely that the Winkelmann WDB2 no longer exists.

Driven by: Dan Murphy. First race: Road America (R3), 15 Jun 1969. Total of 12 recorded races.

Nigel Bates in his Winkelmann WDB2 at Sears Point in 1969. Copyright Palliser-Winkelmann Registry 2025. Used with permission.

James Lovett in Robs Lamplough's Palliser at Silverstone in October 2014. Copyright Keith Lewcock 2021. Used with permission.

Run by Bob Winkelmann for Nigel Bates (Sausalito, CA/San Jose, CA) to race in the SCCA Continental Championship. The car's history is then unknown until 1973, when Gerry Bruihl (Sausalito, CA/Mountain View, CA) acquired it. Being a Datsun dealer, Bruihl decided to fit a 1600cc Datsun engine to the car. This would probably have been the L16 series SOHC engine used in the BRE Datsun 510 that John Morton took to two Trans-Am "Two-Five Challenge" championship victories in 1971 and 1972. The Winkelmann was raced for Bruihl by Walt Maas in SCCA Nationals in 1974, before Bruihl himself raced it in SCCA races in early 1975. It was then sold to George Gettel (Denver, CO), who raced it in SCCA Nationals later that year. This is presumably the car he entered simply as "Prototype" in 1977 and 1978.

Gettel then acquired a Brabham BT40 and the SCCA logbook reportedly gives the next owners of the Winkelmann as Craig Vaughn in December 1978 and Bill Hardy in May 1979. However, Tommy Patson recalls Gettel selling the car to Ron Hunter, of Rocky Mountain Winkelmann, who used it as a rental car in the late 1970s. Patson remembers racing the car several times when it was fitted with a water-cooled VW engine.

In December 1993, it was acquired by Chris Ronson (Modesto, CA) and restored, but Ronson used WDB4 magnesium uprights and the 1971 trailing arm front suspension. In 2013 it was bought from Ronson by Robs Lamplough, who raced it at Thruxton in 2014. It was also raced for him by James Lovett at HSCC Silverstone in October 2014.

Driven by: Nigel P. Bates, Walt Maas, Gerry Bruihl and George Gettel. First race: Continental Divide (R3), 8 Jun 1969. Total of 13 recorded races.

New to Warren Flickinger (Denver, CO) for SCCA Formula B in 1970. Flickinger had started the season in a Chevron, and had accrued enough points to qualify for the Runoffs from Midwest Division, but then destroyed his Chevron at Texas World Speedway in July. The Winkelmann was acquired to replace it, and he used it in SCCA Nationals at Continental Divide and Road America in August. Flickinger, a pre-med student and karate instructor, was also present with the car at the Great Salt Lake Races at Bonneville Raceway Park in early September, where he finished third in an SCCA Regional the day before the main event. However, he was not seen again that season, and advertised the car later in September. Subsequent history unknown but see the Doug Fisher car which is believed to be WDB2-5.

Driven by: Warren Flickinger. First race: Continental Divide, 2 Aug 1970. Total of 3 recorded races.

Bob Winkelmann's sales records show Winkelmann WDB2 "007" going to "Wink" with yellow bodywork. This is taken to mean that WDB2-7 was Bob Winkelmann's personal car. This car would have been delivered in 1970, so it is presumably the car Winkelmann raced at Sears Point 28 Jun 1970 and Dallas 5 Jul 1970. However, Winkelmann had also run chassis WDB2-3 for Nigel Bates with green bodywork, and it is possible he retained that car and raced it in 1970 instead of WDB2-7. Photographs of Winkelmann's car at Sears Point or Dallas would resolve this. Until then, he is assumed to have raced the yellow WDB2-7.

In early September 1971, Bob Winkelmann raced a Winkelmann of some type in the Great Salt Lake Road Races (a Utah Region SCCA National) at Bonneville Raceway Park. Bob could have been using his yellow personal car again. Or he could have been in the green-and-yellow car that he had loaned to Ron Dykes earlier in 1971, or could even have been driving Keith Saunders' new orange WDB4. Again, photographs of Winkelmann's car at Bonneville would resolve this, and again, until then, he is assumed to have raced the yellow WDB2-7. Subsequent history unknown but see the Mike Arnold car, which is thought to have been chassis WDB2-7.

Driven by: Robert Winkelmann. First race: Sears Point (R5), 28 Jun 1970. Total of 3 recorded races.

Greg Gosar (Tolleson, AZ) raced a Formula B Winkelmann in SCCA Nationals in 1970. Gosar, a rancher, had raced in Formula Vee and Formula C for several seasons before moving to a Formula B Lotus 41C in 1969. He started the 1970 Southern Division SCCA season in the Lotus, scoring 15 points after three SCCA Nationals. He then moved to what was described as a 1969 Winkelmann with fuel-injection and a "computerized electrical metering device". He won the Formula B class and was third overall in the Continental Divide SCCA National in early August. On 20 September at Ontario Motor Speedway, he was second in FB behind Max Mizejewski's Lola T100 and third overall. The following weekend at Phoenix International Raceway he won a Regional on the Saturday and finished second behind Mizejewski again in FB on the Sunday, this time by just a car's length. Gosar was second to Mizejewski in the division so was invited to the Runoffs, but did not attend. Gosar did not appear in Formula B again and in 1971 moved to the San Luis Valley in Colorado to become an organic alfalfa and wheat farmer. He died in January 2019. The subsequent history of his Winkelmann is unknown.

Driven by: Greg Gosar. First race: Continental Divide, 2 Aug 1970. Total of 4 recorded races.

Keith Saunders in a Winkelmann WDB2 at Laguna Seca. Copyright David Hutson 2009. Used with permission.

Ron Dykes (Marina del Rey, CA) drove a Winkelmann WDB2 in the Formula A class of the Circuit Monterey Grand Prix at Laguna Seca in May 1971. The car had been fitted with a Cosworth BDA engine, which had not been allowed into SCCA Formula B at that time. The car was green with yellow stripes, and photographs show that this was the car raced at the Olympia Laguna Seca June Sprints (a San Francisco Region SCCA National) by Keith Saunders (Albuquerque, NM) later that season. Saunders then acquired a newer WDB4, but the ex-Dykes WDB2 is believed to be the second car that Saunders took to the Bogotá Formula B races in early 1972, alongside the new WDB4 intended for Dykes. Neither car started those races after engine problems. Saunders later described this WDB2 as having been Bob Winkelmann's personal car. Subsequent history unknown.

Driven by: Ron Dykes and Keith Saunders. First race: Laguna Seca (US R2), 2 May 1971. Only one recorded race.

Mike Arnold's Winkelmann WDB2 on his driveway in Glendora, CA. Copyright Evan McGreevy 2025. Used with permission.

Mike Arnold (Glendora, CA) bought a yellow Winkelmann WDB2 in 1983 from Pat Garrett (Fallbrook, CA), a recent Executive Director of San Diego Region. Arnold recalls that Garrett was the second owner of the car, having bought it in 1977, but had not raced it. It was fitted with an Alfa Romeo engine, but Arnold bought it without the engine. Arnold then raced it in two historic races, at Willow Springs in 1988 and at Pomona in 1989.

Don McGreevy visited Arnold in the late 1980s and took pictures of the car, and as a result the Palliser-Winkelmann Registry added the car to the registry as WDB2-7. However, Don's notes on the car have been lost.

McGreevy's photographs show that it had a correct 'X' frame chassis with swaged side panels, and its radiator was in an original almost flat position. It had yellow bodywork and a Vegantune twin cam engine installed. A Winkelmann-Palliser chassis plate can be seen in the photographs, but its number cannot be read. It is not known whether it has an SCCA stamping or SCCA logbooks.

Arnold still had the car in his garage in September 2025.

Renny Watt's Winkelmann WDB2 as he bought it in Miami in 1994. Copyright Palliser-Winkelmann Registry 2025. Used with permission.

Renny Watt (Canby, OR), one of the founders of the Palliser-Winkelmann Registry, owned a Palliser WDB2 that was believed to be chassis WDB2-8. He bought the car in Miami, FL, in 1994, and his photographs, retained on file with the Palliser-Winkelmann Registry, show that it had a Mazda engine but had no bodywork. It's possible the bodywork was stored elsewhere, but the implication is that it had been used as a sports car, most likely C Sports Racing (CSR). At this time its chassis was blue, but it had a correct 'X' frame chassis with swaged side panels.

Notes on Watt's photographs gave the previous owner's name as Andrew Ludee, but this name cannot be found and is likely to have been a transcription error. Watt sold it to Steve Riffle (Spokane, WA), and it then went to Darrell LeBlanc (Portland, OR), who mentioned in November 2005 on Apexspeed that he owned a WDB2.

It is not known whether it has a chassis plate, its frame number is unknown, and it is also not known whether it has an SCCA stamping or SCCA logbooks.

Still owned by LeBlanc in September 2025.

Jago Keen's Palliser WDB2. Copyright Locke de Bretteville 2025. Used with permission.

Ed Mercer (Windsor, Berkshire) bought a Palliser from Richard Brightman in summer 1994. Mercer understood that it had been brought back to England by a dealer in Birmingham, and acquired by Brightman in 1990. It was used in the HSCC's "F2/FB" class with a 1600cc Ford twin cam engine. In the late 1990s it was observed to have frame number 'AM 53', indicating a 1969 chassis, but did not have a chassis plate and did not have the perforated and swaged panels on the sides of the cockpit area indicative of a WDB2. There is no sign of an SCCA number stamped on its rollhoop, and there are no SCCA logbooks with it.

Mercer raced it in the HSCC Classic Racing Cars (CRC) series, winning the title in 2002. He sold the car in April 2005 to John Rand (West Horsley, Surrey), who raced it in Class E2 (for pre-71 1600cc Lotus twin cam engines) of the HSCC CRC series. Rand raced it at Brands Hatch in July 2005, Thruxton in September 2005, and at Snetterton in July 2006. He also raced it in 2008, when it was then blue, entered as #73, and with 1971-style sidepods, in the HSCC CRC race at the Silverstone International Trophy Meeting in May 2010, and at Donington Park in March 2011, and at Donington again in March 2012. Rand sold the car in 2022 to Jago Keen (Fleet, Hampshire), who raced it in the HSCC Monoposto class at Silverstone in November 2023, in the Derek Bell Trophy events in 2024, and in the Pre-71 FAA class of the Derek Bell Trophy at Brands Hatch in July 2025 and the Silverstone Festival in August 2025.