Hi Blob. I have been fortunate enough to be able go over two Chanticliers with a fine toothed comb, one at the Bruce weiner auction and another that turned up at Story Germany for sale, unfortunately the owner wanted £4000 for it unrestored and that was seven years ago! I wanted it badly and was furious that he was being so greedy. Both cars had a very strange body material, I'm guessing it was fibre glass but without a gel coat to give it a smooth finish, you could see all the fibre strands like you can on the inside of a standard fiberglass body, I guess it was a cutting edge material back then. The cars have a ladder type square tubular chassis, a dee shaped steering implement and as you say, an Ydral 175 with gyrostarter, my favorite! I have some photos of the car I saw at Story if you are interested. Now here is a strange thing and Jean will back me up here, at the Weiner auction viewing Jean and Edwin were privileged to have a preview and an opportunity to play with the cars, I remember Ed telling me that he tried to start a whole succession of them including the ones that went for megabuck! They all had either flat batteries, no battery or were just restored to look good but with pants mechanicals until he got to the Chanticier with westinghouse gyrostarter, he cranked up the gyrostarter and it was away being the only startable/drivable vehicle in the sale! Brownie points for the Chanticlier and gyrostarter? I should say so!!!