Borgwards
Regarding your story "A Le Mans rarity from 1953" by David Blumlein in FSW 07, I thought that I could add some words to the story.
The present owner of the Borgward Rennsport is a man named Lars-Erik Larsson and lives in the south of Sweden. As you can see from my photos from Le Mans Classic 2002 he likes to take his car to the track too.

But please note one thing on the photos: The car carries Swedish licence plates and is street registered in track specification !!! That is, no silencer whatsoever…
The car is not in 100 % original spec since, as you noted in the article, the original engines seized at Le Mans in 1953. When Lars-Erik found the car there was no motor in it at all, but he built something similar, using a Borgward TS motor to start with. Today it has more or less the same hp and performance as the car had with it's original race engine.
I can guarantee you that Lars-Erik is a racer of the traditional cut. He doesn't put much mileage on the car, but he takes it for a tour, off and on the track, now and then.

When he was asked to show the car on a classic car expo once in Malmö, he drove the car from his home, to the expo, straight up to the expo gate, flashed the headlights and when the doorman opened the gate drove the car straight to his place on the expo and parked the car. I don't know how many times the cops stopped him, but each time he showed the car's papers showing that he could use the car on the street without a silencer. After he had gone over the car with a towel Lars-Erik and his Borgward were ready to rock the expo. If anybody is cast from the same mould as the original Le Mans team it is Lars-Erik!

He inherited the interest early from his father who was a Borgward dealer in the early sixties in Sweden. Lars-Erik has quite a nice collection of cars from the Borgward group as well as other classics as well.

Best regards, Björn Kellgren, Nantes, France