XKD 503

Engine n° E2011-9 Reg. N° Le Mans trade plate 070 DU Colour Yellow

Supplied to Belgian Motor Co (possibly on loan only); works prepared for 1955 Le Mans, Claes Swaters (race number 10), 3rd; returned to works for testing; shipped back to Belgium; sold to Ernest Erickson (Chicago, USA); September inaugural Road America meeting, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, 3rd; March 1956, Walterboro, 5th; June, Lawrenceville,1st Class C Modified; July, Beverly, 4th; sold to Alfonsc Gomez Mena; 1957 Havana GP, 6th; Sebring, DNF; car then disappeared and further history appears to be unknown; it is possible that car may have acquired identity of XKD 521, also owned by Mena (see XKD 521).