1965 Lotus 32B

This car took part in the Tasman & Intercontinental class of the HGPCA Pre '66 Rear Engined Grand Prix Cars race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2004.

It's the 2.4 litre 1965 Lotus 32B of Malcolm Ricketts. This car was a one-off derived from the 1 litre Lotus 32 that had been designed for Formula 2 racing in 1964, and was driven by Jim Clark in the 1965 New Zealand/Australia Tasman Series winning four out of the seven races and the Series Championship. Behind the Lotus 32B is another of Malcolm Ricketts' cars, a 1½ litre 1956 Lotus Eleven with which he competed in the BRDC Historic Sports Car Championship Race.

1967 McLaren M1C & 1970 Osella PA3

I photographed these two cars exiting Priory Corner during a qualifying session for the AT & T Istel Steigenberger Supersports Cup Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

The green car is the 1967 McLaren M1C entered by Derichs Rennwagen and driven by Wido Rössler. It's chassis M1C-40-11 and has a small-block Chevrolet 4,992cc V8 engine. The M1C was a customer car built to compete in the CanAm series in Canada and the USA, and M1C-40-11 was originally supplied to Carl Haas. It later passed to Ralph Treischman and then Jim Phillips before spending 14 years in Harrah's Museum then coming back to the UK. The red car is the 1970 Osella PA3 of Lawrence Rose and has a 2 litre BMW M12 engine.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph I took on the Friday practice day for the 1962 British Grand Prix at Aintree with my Kodak Brownie 127 camera.

It's the 1962 Ferrari 156 that was driven in the race by Phil Hill. It had a 1,476cc 120° V8 Ferrari Type 178 engine, but was not as successful as the 1961 model in which Phil Hill had won that year's World Drivers' Championship. In 1962 the Ferrari wasn't as quick as the British BRM, Lotus, Lola and Cooper cars with their new V8 Coventry Climax engines, and they were hampered by a series of strikes in Italy which meant they were unable to compete in the French Grand Prix and Phil Hill's was the only Ferrari that took part in the British Grand Prix. The Ferraris also failed to start in either of the last two races that season, in the USA and South Africa. Phil Hill only managed to qualify the car in 12th place on the grid at Aintree, and retired from the race on the 47th of the 75 laps with distributor failure. The man in the light-coloured suit is Mauro Forghieri, Chief Engineer at Ferrari, and the man in front of him appears to be Phil Hill.

1962 BRM P578

This car, which I photographed at the Donington Park museum in September 2014, had been in the Donington Collection since its early days.

It's a 1962 BRM P578, though strangely the display board says 'P56', and the 1974 book about the Donington Collection also calls it by that name. The forerunner of this car was the 1961 BRM P57 which had a 4-cylinder inline 1,496cc Coventry Climax FPF engine, and when the 1962 car was introduced it had a 1,498cc V8 BRM P56 engine and was called the BRM P578 in acknowledgment of the V8 engine. I don't ever recall the car itself being called a BRM P56. The BRM drivers for the 1962 season were Graham Hill and Richie Ginther who had contrasting fortunes. Graham Hill won four of the nine races and that with two second places gave him the World Drivers' Championship, which was helped by his nearest rival Jim Clark having a series of retirements despite winning three races. Richie Ginther was also plagued with retirements, and his only points scoring finishes were a second and a third to leave him in eighth place in the Championship. The 'stack-pipe' exhausts seen on this car were eventually abandoned as they tended to fall off one-by-one.

1953 Cooper Bristol T25

This car took part in the Bonhams Drum Brake Sports Cars race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003.

It's the 1953 Cooper Bristol of Michael Parr and is a 2 seater sports car based on the Cooper Bristol T23 Formula 2 car. It has a 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc Bristol engine, and appears to be the car with which Tony Crook campaigned from 1953 to 1955.

1971 Surtees TS9

This car competed in the Grand Prix Masters race at the Silverstone Historic Tribute meeting in June 2004.

It's Peter Austin's 1971 Surtees TS9B, chassis 004, that was raced by the Surtees team in the 1971 and 1972 seasons, being uprated from a TS9 to a TS9B before the start of the 1972 season. The Surtees TS9 was powered by the 2,993cc Ford Cosworth DFV V8 engine and was not particularly successful, the best result being Mike Hailwood's second place in the 1972 Italian Grand Prix. 

 

1937 Bentley 4¼ Litre

This car took part in the 2 hour long VSCC Team Relay Race for Pre-War Sports Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's Ralph Robins' 1937 Bentley 4¼ Litre (shown in the programme of the event as a Bentley 4¼ Special), one of the 'Derby Bentleys' - so named because they were built at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby after Rolls-Royce's acquisition of the Bentley Company in 1931. The Bentley 4¼ Litre was developed from the 3½ Litre, which was introduced in 1933 and was the first new Bentley model produced after the Rolls-Royce takeover. The 3,669cc of the Rolls-Royce 6-cylinder inline engine in the Bentley 3½ Litre was increased to 4,257cc for the 4¼ Litre model, which was produced from 1936 to 1939.

1951 Chevrolet Bel Air

This was one of the cars on display at the Northern Classic Car Show in the G-Mex Centre, Manchester in August 1993.

It's a First Generation 1951 Chevrolet Bel Air and should have a 6-cylinder inline 216 or 235 cu in engine. I didn't make a note of which stand the car was on, and there's no mention of it in the brochure of the event

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1960 Lotus 15

This was one of the competitors in the BRDC Historic Sportscar Championship race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1960 Lotus 15 of David Heynes and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,960cc Coventry Climax FPF engine. The car was a successor to the Lotus Mk X, developed from the Lotus Eleven but designed to accommodate engines from 1½ to 2½ litres. It was intended for International Sports Car racing, but though cars were entered in the 1958 and 1959 Le Mans 24 Hour race none of them managed to finish.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the HGPCA Pre-61 Front Engine Grand Prix Car race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's the 1960 Ferrari 246 Dino of Tony Smith which was the last front engined car to win a Grand Prix race, Phil Hill driving it to victory in the Italian Grand Prix in the next to last race of the 1960 season. At the end of the that season the car was fitted with a 3 litre 250 TR V12 engine and sold to New Zealander Pat Hoare who campaigned the car there for two years before it was sold and drastically altered with a body resembling that of the 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO. In 1978 the car was acquired by Neil Corner who had it restored to its original specifications and raced it in historic events until selling it in 2000 to Tony Smith. The programme of the event says the car has a 2½ litre engine, so presumably it's the 2,475cc V6 engine that it had in 1960.

1929 Pacey Hassan Bentley

I took this photograph at the Old Hairpin corner during the VSCC Vintage Seaman Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's Julian Majzub in his 1929 Bentley Pacey Hassan, which was originally built for Bill Pacey by Wally Hassan and Wally Saunders using the engine from Bill Pacey's 4½ litre Bentley and a frame built by Rubery Owen. On 17 March 2014 I showed photographs that I had taken of the car at Oulton Park in May of 2005.

1984 Porsche 956B

This car competed in the British Empire Trophy race for Group C Endurance Cars at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's the 1984 Porsche 956B of Martyn Konig that was driven in the 2 hour long race by Rob Wilson and Martyn Konig. This is the Skoal Bandit Porsche & John Fitzpatrick Racing Team car that finished in third place in the 1984 Le Mans 24 Hour race driven by David Hobbs, Philippe Streif and Sarel van der Merwe, and has a 2.65 litre turbocharged flat-six engine.

USS New Jersey

On a visit to the USA in 2007 we stayed in Riverton in New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia, and made a couple of visits there during the holiday. The River Line light rail system which passes through Riverton links Trenton with Camden on the opposite bank of the Delaware River to Philadelphia and we used that on both our visits. On the Camden side of the river the Iowa class battleship the USS New Jersey is moored as a museum ship and I took these photographs, mostly from the ferry from Camden to Philadelphia, on one of our visits.

Work on the USS New Jersey started on 16 September 1940, she was launched on 7 December 1942, and commissioned 23 May 1943. The initial crew training took place in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean before being transferred to the Pacific Theatre in advance of the planned assault on the Marshall Islands, where she screened the U.S. fleet of aircraft carriers from enemy air raids. She later took part in a naval bombardment of Iwo Jima and Okinawa prior to invasion by United States troops.

During the Korean War the ship pounded targets on the East coast of North Korea, and following the Armistice the USS New Jersey conducted training and operation cruises until she was decommissioned on August 21, 1957.

She was briefly reactivated in 1968 and sent to Vietnam to support US troops before returning to the mothball fleet in 1969. Reactivated again in 1982 USS New Jersey was sent to Lebanon to protect U.S. interests and U.S. Marines, firing her main guns at Druze and Syrian positions in the Beqaa Valley east of Beirut.

Decommissioned for the last time on 8 February 1991, USS New Jersey was briefly retained on the Naval Vessel Register before being donated to the Home Port Alliance of Camden, New Jersey for use as a museum ship in October 2001.

The USS New Jersey's sister Iowa class battleship USS Missouri was the ship on which General Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2nd September 1945.

While on the ferry crossing the Delaware River I noticed two familiar looking funnels further down the river:

It's the SS United States that was built for United States Lines in 1950/51 as a Transatlantic liner but with some assistance from the US government which, remembering the recent World War, envisaged it as being able to transport large numbers of troops should the need arise in the future. She was the fastest Transatlantic liner ever built, and on her maiden voyage she won the Blue Riband by completing both the eastbound and westbound journeys in record times. By the late 1960s transatlantic travel by ship had dwindled so much that it was no longer profitable and the SS United States was withdrawn from service. Ownership passed through various hands with no-one being able to put the ship to profitable use, and since 1996 she has been moored on the Delaware River in Philadelphia.

AC Ace and AC Aceca

These two cars competed in the Invitation Class of one of the races at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

On the left is the 1957 AC Ace of Tony Bancroft and on the right the 1958 AC Aceca of Peter Lanfranchi. Both cars have the 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc Bristol engine derived from the M328 engine that powered the pre-war BMW 328.

1910 Léon Bollée Landaulette

This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1990, and is pictured in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Run.

It's the 1910 Léon Bollée Landaulette of Kevin Bann, and the programme of the event has this information about the car:

18.    1910 Léon Bollée Landaulette

          Reg: BM 1373   4 cylinder  28 hp

          (Kevin Bann, Fence, Burnley)

Built in France at Le Mans by Léon Bollée, son of Amédée Bollée, pioneer of steam driven vehicles in France, this model, aimed at the American market, was backed with finance by the Vanderbilts. Cossetted passengers can communicate with the exposed driver by means of a speaking tube - forerunner of today's car-phone.

1987 Sauber Mercedes C9

I took these photographs at the Donington Park Museum on my last visit there in September 2014.

It's a 1987 Sauber Mercedes C9 which competed in the World Sportscar Championship in 1987, 1988 and 1989. The car was a development of the Sauber C8 and had a 4,973cc Mercedes-Benz V8 engine. The board at the side of the car gives this information:

1987 Sauber Mercedes C9

The Sauber C9 (later named the Sauber Mercedes C9 or Mercedes-Benz C9) was a Group C prototype race car introduced in 1987 as a continuation of the partnership between Sauber as a constructor and Mercedes-Benz as an engine builder for the World Sportscar Championship. The C9 replaced the previous Sauber C8. For its debut season in 1987 the cars were run by Kouros Racing, named after the fragrance brand of its sponsor, Yves Saint Laurent, although officially backed by Mercedes-Benz. The team managed a mere twelfth in the teams' standings, scoring points in only a single round. For 1988, Kouros was dropped as a sponsor, forcing the team to be renamed Sauber Mercedes. As a result, Mercedes Benz used AEG-Olympia for sponsor – AEG being owned by Daimler-Benz at the time. They managed to finish second in the championship behind Silk Cut Jaguar with five wins for the season. Unfortunately at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the team suffered an embarrassing setback when they were forced to withdraw due to concern over their Michelin tyres.

Finally, in 1989, the car was able to achieve great success. Beside replacing the black colour scheme for its national plain silver scheme, reducing AEG as a minor sponsor, the older M117 5.0L turbocharged V8 engine was upgraded to the M119, which replaced steel heads with new aluminium. The C9 was able to win all but one race in the 1989 season, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans. During the qualifying for Le Mans, the C9 recorded a speed of 247 mph (398 km/h) on the Mulsanne Straight, a record. Mercedes driver Jean-Louis Schlesser would end up taking the driver’s championship that season.

The C9 would be replaced by the Mercedes-Benz C11 for 1990.

Towards the end of the 1990 season an up-and-coming young German driver, Michael Schumacher, joined the team, and with Jochen Mass won the last race of the season in Mexico City. He drove for the team in 1991 and also made his debut in Formula One that year in a Jordan at the Belgian Grand Prix, later joining the Benetton F1 team.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the competitors in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the 1956 Ferrari 500TR of Giancarlo Galeazzi, seen here leaving the pit lane during a qualifying session. The 500TR was introduced in 1956 to replace the Ferrari Mondial and was the first Ferrari to be known as the 'Testa Rossa' because the twin camshaft covers were painted red. Sixteen of the cars were produced, all with a 4-cylinder inline 1,985cc engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi and bodywork by Carrozzeria Scaglietti. The programme of the event gives the engine capacity of this car as 2500cc, but I can see nothing in the barchetta.cc history of #0610MDTR that says that it has ever been the subject of an engine change.

Allard

I photographed these two cars in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

On the left is the 1949 Steyr-Allard with which Sydney Allard won the 1949 British Hill Climb Championship. The car was built round an air-cooled 3,600cc V8 Steyr engine which had it's origins as a lorry engine used in German transport vehicles during the Second World War. The car on the right is an Allard JR, one of seven cars that were built in 1953, two of which competed in the 1953 Le Mans 24 Hour race driven by Sydney Allard/Philip Fotheringham-Parker and Zora Arkus-Duntov/Ray Merrick, but neither car finished the race. The Le Mans cars had 5.4 litre Cadillac V8 engines.

1952 Lancia Aurelia B20

This car took part in the HSCC Historic Roadsports Championship Race at the Historic Sports Car Club's race meeting at Oulton Park in June 2001.

It's the 1952 Lancia Aurelia B20 of Tim Burrett. The B20 Series I car was introduced in 1951 with a 1,991cc V6 engine, followed by the Series II car, 721 of which were produced between 1952 and 1953 and which had a more powerful version of the same engine. The programme of the event says that this car has the 2,451cc V6 engine that was only introduced with the Series III car in 1953.

1967 Atkinson 'Silver Knight'

This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1967 Atkinson 'Silver Knight' which has a Gardner 6LXB diesel engine. The programme of the event said this about the vehicle:

Atkinson "Silver Knight" T3046XB, 1967                                                  GBV759E

Entered by    C.J.Gardner for W.H.Bowker Limited, Bamber Bridge, Preston

Owned by the Company since new, this much travelled vehicle remains in original condition, the last engine overhaul having been undertaken in 1978.

1958 Maserati 300S

This was one of the competitors in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's the 1958 Maserati 300S of Burkhard von Schenk with the 6-cylinder inline 2,991cc engine derived from that of the Grand Prix Maserati 250F, and is chassis #3082. Its early history is rather sketchy, but it appears to have started off in Angola where it took part in the Angolan Grand Prix five times between 1958 and 1963. Álvaro Lopes drove the car on four of those occasions and in 1962 it was driven by Flávio dos Santos, the best result being when Álvaro Lopes took third place in 1963. It eventually went to South Africa where it remained until the 1980s when it came to the UK and was acquired by the notable German collector and historic racer Burkhard von Schenk. 

Car number 62 in the background is the 1956 Maserati 300S of William Binnie, chassis #3069.

1933 Napier Railton

The VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2011 featured demonstration runs by Brooklands Museum's 24 litre Napier Railton, and here's the car in the pit garage before the start of that day's runs.

The car was created by Reid Railton, Chief Engineer at Thompson & Taylor Racing car works at Brooklands and intended for racing at the Brooklands banked circuit and also for world speed record attempts. A note in the programme of the event tells the story of the car:

'Commissioned by John Cobb, this car had to be equally suited to also tackle the coveted hour and 24 hour world speed records, usually on foreign soil. Named the Napier-Railton, it was a bespoke special powered by a 24 litre Napier Lion aeroplane engine whose twelve cylinders were arranged in three banks of four and drove via a three speed gearbox to a 1.66 to 1 rear axle. Railton designed all this specially and fitted it into a massive chassis frame with deep side rails passing underneath both front and rear axles. Suspension was by double cantilever springs at the rear with an identical system to the Sunbeam Tiger and Tigress he had designed earlier using semi elliptical units at the front. The only part he had derived from another car was the steering box and column from a Speed Six Bentley. The racing bodywork, similar to the Sunbeam's was made by Gurney Nutting.'

The car was successful from the start, winning races at Brooklands and setting the lap record at 143.44 mph which was still standing when the track finally closed in 1939. Between 1933 and 1936 the car took several world speed records at Montlhéry and Bonneville Salt Flats, the fastest being 100 miles at 168.59 mph. After the Second World War the car was used for a time by Sir Geoffrey Quilter for testing parachutes and later was acquired by the Hon. Patrick Lindsay who used it in VSCC races. After having several other owners it was acquired by the Brooklands Museum in 1997.

This is the Thomson & Taylor badge affixed to the car.

1934 MG

This car competed in a scratch race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's the 1934 MG K3 Magnette of Philip Walker. The original K type Magnette, the K1, had a 6-cylinder inline 1,087cc engine and was available as a 4-seat open tourer or a 4-door saloon. The K2 was an open 2-seater with a shorter chassis, and could have the same engine as the K1 or a larger 1,271cc version of that engine. The K3 was a racing variant using the shorter chassis and a supercharged 1,087cc engine. Only 33 of the K3 model were made, many of which have not survived, and a number of replicas have been made using the K1 or K3 cars. Philip Walker's car may be one of those, and the programme of this Oulton Park event shows it to have a 1,408cc supercharged engine.

Fridays Ferrari

 I photographed this car at the Ferrari Racing Day meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a 1995 Ferrari 456 GT, with a 5,474cc F116 V12 engine at the front which has twin overhead camshafts on each bank, and two valves per cylinder. The body was designed at Pininfarina by Pierto Camardella. This car followed the Ferrari 412 and was in production from 1992 to 2003, being replaced by the 612 Scaglietti.

1978 Chevron B43

This car took part in the Single Seater Challenge/Toyota Formula 3 Race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

It's Chris Fearon's 1978 Chevron B43 and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,997cc Toyota engine. Sixteen of these cars were built, but the Chevron B43 proved to be a difficult car to set up for a race and didn't achieve much success, although Patrick Gaillard managed wins at Imola and the Nürburgring in that year's European Formula 3 Championship.

1939 Maserati 4CL

This car competed in a Celebration Maserati Invitation Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Maserati themed SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's the 1939 Maserati 4CL of Rodney Smith, chassis #1564,  and was driven in the race by Mark Gillies. The car was designed for Voiturette racing and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,491cc supercharged engine. Nine of the cars were built in 1939, and a further sixteen after the war between 1946 and 1947.

1962 Lotus 24

I took this photograph on the start/finish straight at Aintree during practice for the 1962 British Grand Prix.

It's the UDT Laystall Racing Team's 1962 Lotus 24 driven by Masten Gregory and for this race it had the 4-cylinder inline 1,500cc Coventry Climax FPF engine, although for most of the races that year he drove it with a 1,498cc V8 BRM P56 engine. He qualified in fourteenth place on the grid and ended the race in seventh position, one lap behind the winner, Jim Clark in a Lotus 25. Masten Gregory didn't have a very successful season with the car, scoring a single point in the World Drivers' Championship with a sixth place in the USA Grand Prix.

1994 Lister Storm

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's a 1994 Lister Storm, one of only four road-going examples that were produced between 1994 and 1995, although racing versions of the car were built, the GTS, GTL and GT taking part in the FIA's GT Championship racing from 1995 to 2005. The Lister Storm was powered by a 6,996cc V12 engine that was based on the one used by the Jaguar XJR-9. On 27 January 2016 I showed a photograph of a Lister Storm GTL that I had taken at Silverstone at the same meeting.

 

Aston Martin

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993.

It's a 1930's Aston Martin, either an Ulster or a Le Mans, but without a race number of registration plate I've not been able to identify it. The lack of a registration plate means it was possibly competing that day and the race numbers had not yet been applied, and the only red 1930s Aston Martin shown in the programme of the event is the 1933 Aston Martin Le Mans of Nick Mason, driven at this meeting by Chloe Mason. 

1960 Porsche 718

 I took this photograph at Tom Wheatcroft's Donington Park Museum in May 1989.

It's a 1960 Porsche 718/2, chassis 202, formerly campaigned by Dutch driver Carel Godin de Beaufort and is finished in the orange Dutch racing colours. A book printed in 1974 giving details of many of the cars in the collection says this about the Porsche (which is now in the Porsche Prototyp Museum in Hamburg):

The Porsche 718

Germany's Challenger

French driver Jean Behra began Porsche's single-seater venture into Formula 2 in 1958. He had a central-seat version of the RSK sports car built up and it proved very successful. For 1959 the Stuttgart works produced 'proper' singe-seater cars, with similar air-cooled flat-four engines and trailing-link torsion bar front suspension, and when the 1½ litre Formula 1 came into operation in 1961 they were well prepared to enter Grand Prix racing for the first time.

Dan Gurney and Jo Bonnier drove the cars, which proved quite competitive, and when the new eight-cylinder was introduced for 1962 the old cars were sold. Two of them went to the giant Dutchman, Count Carel Godin de Beaufort, and he enjoyed himself hugely as one of that rare breed of private owner-drivers in Formula 1. He suffered a fatal accident in one of the obsolete old Porsches during practice for the 1964 German Grand Prix at Nürburgring. He was, as ever, trying as hard as he could to reach a qualifying time, and the loss of this jovial, larger than life character took some much-needed colour from the Grand Prix scene.

PORSCHE 718

Engine: 180° 4-Cyls; 2VPC; 2OHC; Air-cooled; 85mm x 66mm, 1498cc; c. 155bhp/7500rpm.

Chassis: Tubular spaceframe.

Suspension: IFS by trailing arms and TBs/IRS by wishbones and CSp.

Brakes: Discs.

On 25 February 2019 I showed a photograph of Carel Godin de Beaufort driving the second of the two Porsche 718/2 cars that he bought, chassis 201, at Aintree during practice for the 1962 British Grand Prix.

Friday's Ferrari

This car is listed in the programme of the event as a reserve for the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 C of Carlos Monteverde and was due to be driven in the race by David Franklin. The 365 GTB/4 C is a competition version of the GTB/4 with an aluminium body and the Gioacchino Colombo designed 4,390cc V12 engine is specially tuned to give 400 bhp. Carlos Monteverde's car is chassis #15667 and is the eighth of the fifteen competition cars that were built. The car was originally acquired by Charles Pozzi who entered it for the 1972 Le Mans 24 Hour race where it was driven by Claude Ballot-Léna and Jean-Claude Andruet, finishing in fifth place overall and winning the GTS class.