The Nomad was a GT car designed by Bob Curl, an ex-Lotus employee, for Mark Konig, the well known Lotus Elite and Elan racer. After leaving Lotus, Bob had set up his own business tuning and servicing racing Elans, but had a secret passion to design his own race car. Mark came across some wooden models that Bob had produced in the back of his workshop, and Mark was intrigued. They decided they should go ahead with the best design, and create a car for Group 6 prototype endurance racing. Starting in the autumn of 1966, a spaceframe chassis was formed with a Lotus based suspension set-up.

Over the winter of '66 / '67, the gorgeous alloy body was built by W&P in 18 gauge aluminium. It was created straight from Bob Curl's model by eye, and is a thing of real beauty. The car was fitted initially with a Ford 1600 twin-cam engine mated to a Hewland Mark 5 gearbox. The car gained its name "Nomad" thanks to a comment by Mark's wife Gabriel about the Konig's looking like nomads when they went racing with their caravan of gear about them. Gabriel Konig was a legendary and fearless Sprite racer, who raced Sebring Sprites and dominated her series as stablemate to John Britten of Lenham and Arkley fame.

The Nomad Mk I survives in fine condition in Germany. Its current owner Wolfgang Wegener says:

"By chance I came accross your website. The Nomad 1 had a body build by Williams & Pritchard in 1967 - straight from a wooden model supplied by Bob Curl (the designer). The car raced in the long distance sports car races in 1967, '68 and '69. Notably the Targa Florio (twice), 1000 km Monthlery/Paris (twice), 24 hours of Daytona, 1000 and 500 km Nürburgring (twice), BOAC 500, 12 hours Reims, etc. Driven at the time by Mark Konig and Tony Lanfranchi. The Nomad is here in Germany with me now for over 20 years. Sadly, the aluminium front and the rear bonnet were replaced with fibreglass ones already in 1968 - but otherwise the car is accident free and in very good condition."