1965 McLaren M1B

This car took part in the World Sports Car Masters race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's the 1965 McLaren M1B of New Zealander Roger Wills and he shared the driving in the hour long race with Swedish driver Georg Kjallgren. The car is chassis 30/06 and has a 5½ litre Chevrolet engine, and was originally owned by US driver Marshall Brooke Doran.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the competitors in the GT Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's a 2007 Ferrari F430 Challenge and was driven in the race by Tony Jones. The car has a 4,308cc V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder 2018 and here it’s seen during the race just after Britten’s chicane on its way towards Hilltop and Knickerbrook.

2004 BAR Honda 006

 

This is a photograph I took at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It's the BAR Honda 006 that Takuma Sato drove in the 2004 season powered by a 3,000 cc Honda RA004E V10 engine. Takuma Sato had one third place and a number of minor points-scoring finishes to earn 34 points for eighth place in the World Drivers’ Championship in 2004 and team mate Jenson Button had 4 second place and 6 third place finishes to finish with 85 points in third place in the Championship. BAR Honda ended up in second place in the World Constructors' Championship behind Ferrari.

1960 Maserati T61

This car competed in the Sir Stirling Moss Trophy for 50s Sportscars race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's the 1960 Maserati T61 of Mark Gillies and has a 4-cylinder inline 2,890cc engine. The T61, and the 1,989cc T60 were generally known as Maserati Birdcage cars because of the intricate tubular space frame chassis. In total 22 of these cars were built by Maserati, but this car is a recreation built by the Crosthwaite & Gardiner engineering company which is indistinguishable from the original cars and has been given the chassis number 2478.

Historic Formula Ford

I took this photograph at Brittens chicane on the first lap of the Historic Formula Ford race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.

Leading is Dan Eagling in his 1969 Lotus 61MX from Michael Wrigley in a 1970 Lotus 59. The following cars are Kevin Stanzl's 1971 Crossle 20F, Gregory Thornton's 1967 Titan Mk3/4, Cormac Flanagan's 1968 Alexis Mk14, and you can just see the nose of the 1971 Merlyn Mk20 of  Tim Brise.

1969 Porsche 917K

This car was displayed in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's a Porsche 917K in the Gulf Oil livery of John Wyer's JW Automotive Engineering team which campaigned with the cars in the 1970 and 1971 seasons. The cars won many events in the World Sportscar Championship in the 1970 and 1971 seasons, but a three-car team entered at the Le Mans 24 Hour race in both those years resulted in in five retirements with just a second place in the 1971 race to show for their efforts. This car appears to be chassis #013/034 which was then owned by Mark Finburgh. During the filming of the Steve McQueen film 'Le Mans' the car was crashed and damaged to such an extent that the original chassis 013 had to be replaced by a new chassis 034. The 917 was powered by a flat-12 engine, originally of 4½ litres, later increased to 4.9 litres and then to 5 litres.

1908 Argyll 16hp

I took this photograph before the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car run in June 1973.

I don't now have the programme of the event but it's a 1908 Argyll 16hp, and something at the back of my mind is telling me that the driver is James Anderton who became Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police Force later in the 1970s.

1965 Sunbeam Tiger

This was one of the competitors in the AMOC  '50s Sports Car race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017.

It's the 1965 Sunbeam Tiger of William Smallridge, pictured here in the pit garage before the start of the day's racing.

The Sunbeam Tiger is a high-performance version of the British Rootes Group's Sunbeam Alpine roadster, designed with the help of American car designer and racing driver Carroll Shelby and originally with a 260 cu in (4.3 litre) Ford V8 engine. The series II car was fitted with the larger Ford 289 cu in (4.7 L) engine, but the programme of the events says that this car has a 5 litre engine.

 

The car is seen here at Druids Corner during the morning qualifying session.....

.....and here at Knickerbrook during the afternoon's race.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the HGPCA Pre-1952 Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's Carlos Monteverde's 1952 Ferrari 375 Indianapolis, one of four cars specially prepared with a 4,382cc V12 engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi for the 1952 Indianapolis 500 race. One of the cars was to be driven in the race by Alberto Ascari, the others being sold to American drivers. Ascari's car was the only one to qualify for the race, in 19th position on the grid and in the race got as high as 8th position at one point but the spokes on one of the rear wheels gave way on lap 40 putting him out of the race. Carlos Monteverde's car is chassis #2 which was sold to Gerry Grant, becoming the Grant Piston Ring Special, to be driven by Johnny Parsons, but he had a falling out with Ferrari and switched to a Kurtis Offenhauser for the race where he finished in tenth place. Danny Oakes took over the Grant Piston Ring Special but failed to qualify. Afterwards the car was sold to a partnership of four people, eventually ended up with one of them, Ernie Beutller, from whom Carlos Monteverde acquired it in 1997. I understand that the car is now with the Louwman Museum at The Hague.

1967 Leyland Titan PD2/40

This was one of the vehicles taking part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's annual Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1967 Leyland Titan PD2/40 originally operated by Salford City Transport and the programme of the event said this about it:

'Leyland Titan PD2/40, Metro-Cammell, 1967                                                                         JRJ281E

Salford City Transport

Entered by         M.C. & R.A.Cotton, Irlam, Lancs

This bus was the penultimate of 103 such vehicles bought by Salford City Transport between 1963 and 1967. Operated from the now closed Weaste Garage for most of its life. Withdrawn 1980 and was bought by the present owners for preservation in 1984.'

It was at that time one of the exhibits in the Greater Manchester Transport Museum, but now appears to be part of the Southdown Historic Vehicles Ltd collection in Worthing.

1956 Cooper T39

This car competed in the Louis Vuitton 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's the 1956 Cooper T39 of Marshall Bailey, more commonly known as the Cooper Bobtail because of the truncated tail of the car which was aerodynamically effective, but which John Cooper claimed to have been shortened so that it would fit inside the works transporter. The car was used in the 1,100cc and 1,500cc classes of sportscar racing and this car has a 4-cylinder inline 1,460cc Coventry Climax engine. It was reputedly the road-holding characteristics of this car that led John Cooper to produce first the rear-engined 1½ litre Formula 2 car and then the 2½ litre Formula 1 car that gave Jack Brabham the World Drivers' Championship in 1959 and 1960. Cooper's successes led all the other teams to adopt the rear-engine layout, and the last Formula 1 Grand Prix to be won by a front-engined car was Ferrari's victory in the 1960 Italian Grand Prix.

Kawasaki ZX10R

I took this photograph early in the morning in a pit garage at the NG Road Racing meeting at Oulton Park in April 2017.

It's the Kawasaki ZX10R of Josh Day being prepared for the practice session that morning prior to taking part in the L & J Fabrication Services and Sapphire Group Powerbike race later in the day.

1957 Maserati 250F

I took this photograph at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995 in a display in memory of Juan Manuel Fangio who had died earlier that month.

The picture in the background was part of a display at the previous year's meeting marking Fangio's career and the car here is Nigel Corner's 1957 Maserati 250F, chassis #2528, with which Fangio won the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix.

 

1968 Morris Minor 1000 Panda Car

This car was in a display of police vehicles at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.

It's a 1968 Morris Minor 1000 Panda Car and has the 1,098cc 4-cylinder inline A-series engine. The Morris Minor Panda car was a common sight in the 1960s, though I understand that the first Panda car was a Ford Anglia and was black and white, not blue and white. I've come across this quote from a police source about the origin of the name 'Panda':

“A decision was made to take economical cars like the Ford Anglia and BMC Mini and give them a distinctive white band on both the front doors and the roof. As black was the first basic colour used they looked like Panda bears. For this reason we came up with the acronym “Patrol And Neighbourhood Deployment Area” Cars, although when Ford offered a substantial discount on their Anglia range we could only get them in pale blue and white."

VSCC Racing

I took this photograph at the start of a scratch race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

The blue car leading is the 1934 Frazer Nash Norris Special of Julian Grimwade ahead of, on the left, Tony Lees in the 1925 AC/GN Cognac. The red car behind the Norris Special is the 1935 Wolseley Hornet Special of Tim Greenhill with Christian Pedersen bringing up the rear in his 1932 Austin 7 Special, 'Miss Green'.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's Englebert Stieger's 1970 Ferrari 512M with a 4,992cc V12 engine, chassis #1018, originally a 512S Spider model but converted to a 512M Berlinetta in 1971. It was driven in the race by his son Patrick.

2017 McLaren 570GT

I saw this car recently outside a Public House in Hyde when I was doing a bit of shopping.

It's a 2017 McLaren 570GT, a more street-friendly version of the 570S with softer suspension settings and improved sound insulation.

It has the 3,799cc McLaren M838T twin turbo V8 engine.

1952 Aston Martin DB2

This car competed in two races at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2015 and it's here being prepared for one of those races in the pit garage.

It's The Reed family's 1952 Aston Martin DB2 which the programme of the event says has the 2,992cc engine that was introduced with the DB3S in 1953. Its first race that day was the AMOC '50s Sports Car race when it was driven by David Reed, but the photograph below shows it at Cascades during its second race, the Equipe GTS race, being driven by David Reed's wife, Mrs Anne Reed.

1926 Morris Bullnose

This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1990 and is seen here on its way to the start line in the Exchange Station Car Park in Manchester.

It's the 1926 Morris Bullnose of Hildegarde Tonge of Heaton Grange, and the programme of the event said this about the car:

1926 Morris Bullnose

Reg:  RA 127  4 cylinder  11.9 hp

(Hildegard Tonge, Heaton Grange)

Built in July 1926 and believed to be one of the

last Bullnoses delivered out of some 155,000

made. Only about 500 or so survive and this

one is said to be “more than fast enough for

this careful lady driver” according to D. Tonge!

Mercedes Benz Kompressor Club

Several members of Germany's Mercedes Benz Kompressor Club for vehicles produced between 1927 and 1934 attended the Coys International Historic Festival Meeting with their cars in July 1994 and took part in a demonstration run around the circuit.

Pictured here in the paddock are some of those cars and on the right is an earlier model, a 4-cylinder inline 2 litre Mercedes, one of three cars that contested the Targa Florio race in 1924. The race took part on the mountain roads near Palermo in Sicily over 4 laps of the 108 kilometre long circuit. The cars were driven by Christian Werner, Christian Lautenschlager and Alfred Neubauer who finished in first, tenth and fifteenth places respectively in the overall standings, and in the first three places in the 1,501 to 2,000cc class. Alfred Neubauer became the Mercedes Benz team leader from 1926 until racing ended in 1939 before the outbreak of war, and was team manager again in 1954 and 1955 when Mercedes Benz returned to racing for those two years. The programme of the event had this note about the Kompressor Club:

 

1972 BRM P180

This is a car that I photographed at the Donington Park Museum in October 1989.

It's a 1972 BRM P180, a car that was designed by Tony Southgate and had a 2,998cc V12 BRM P142 engine. The car was hardly used, BRM preferring the earlier P160 and the only race finish by the P180 was Jean-Pierre Beltoise's eighth place in the Italian Grand Prix.

1928/18 Franziss Special

This car was one of the competitors in Brooklands & Goddard Trophies Race and also in the Boulogne Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005.

It's the 1928/18 Franziss Special of Roger Sweet, which he created himself using the chassis of a 1928 Frazer Nash and a 1918 Curtiss OX-5 V8 aero engine that the programme of the event says has a capacity of 9 litres.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the competitors in the BRDC '60s GT Race at the Christie's Interntional Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's Christopher Mann's 1957 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta Scaglietti TdF and is one of the 14 louvre models. It has the Gioacchino Colombo designed 2,953cc V12 engine and was permitted to use the Tour de France (or TdF) name after winning the 1956 event.

1934 Lagonda Rapier

This was one of the participants in a Vintage and Historic Vehicle Display & Run organised by the Saddleworth Museum in June 1988.

It's a 1934 Lagonda Rapier and has a 4-cylinder 1,250cc engine with twin overhead camshafts. The Rapier was in production from 1934 to 1938.

1964 Maserati 3500GT

This car was parked in the Maserati Owners Club area in the paddock at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's a 1964 Maserati 3500GT a car with a 6-cylinder inline 3,485cc engine that was supplied to its first owner in South Africa with the standard Touring Bodywork. About a year later he commissioned local coachbuilder Pierino Scalco to clothe it in this new bodywork using components imported from Carrozzeria Scaglietti in Italy to create this unique machine.

Formula Junior Cars

These three cars took part in the HSCC/FJHRA Historic Formula Junior Race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2008.

Number 78 is the 1963 Brabham BT6 of Hong Kong driver Mark Amez-Droz which is possibly chassis FJ-11-63. Number 79 is the 1963 Lotus 27 of Swiss driver Urs Eberhardt and probably chassis 27/JM/14. Car number 5 is the 1963 Lola Mk5A of Swiss driver Philipp Buhofer.

1969 Lola T70 Mk3B

This was one of the competitors in the Classic Gold Pre-1974 Le Mans Cars race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's Portugese driver Carlos Barbot's 1969 Lola T70 Mk3B with a 5 litre Chevrolet engine. It seems that it is chassis SL76/136 (a chassis number that was not issued in the 1960s) that was apparently built up in 1984 using parts from Jo Bonnier’s car, SL76/145, which was wrecked in a crash in the 1969 B.O.A.C. 500 race at Brands Hatch. Production of the Lola T70 started in 1965 and over 100 examples were built, usually powered by large American V8 engines, and the cars were more successful in the USA than in Europe, John Surtees and Mark Donohue finishing first and second in the 1966 Can Am Series. They were not so successful in that series in 1967, and in 1968 were replaced by the Lola T160. The cars took part in endurance racing, competing at Le Mans but never making a mark there, although they did manage first and second places in the 1969 Daytona 24 Hour race.

1958 Leyland Tiger Cub

This coach took part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's annual Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's  1958 Leyland Tiger Cub, and the programme of the event gave the following information about it:

Leyland Tiger Cub, Harrington C41C, 1958                                                                             MMR553

Silver Star, Porton Down, Salisbury

Entered by D Dawes, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire

This coach passed to Western National in 1963 on the purchase of Silver Star by Wilts & Dorset and then saw service in Cornwall before being bought for preservation.

1929 Napier Bentley

This was one of the competitors in the Boulogne Trophy race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Boulogne and Hawthorn Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 2006.

It's the 1929 Napier Bentley of Christopher Williams, a car that was created by Peter Morley and David Llewellyn in 1968 using a 24 litre Napier Sea Lion engine which has a 'W' configuration - two banks of four cylinders in a 'V' with a third upright bank between them. The car was originally built on a Sunbeam chassis but after an accident was rebuilt using the chassis of a 1929 8 litre Bentley.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars I photographed at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a 2015 Ferrari F12Berlinetta and has a 6,262cc V12 Ferrari F140 FC engine with an output of 740PS at 8,250 rpm. It was in production from 2012 to 2017.

1986 Williams FW11

This is one of the cars I photographed at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It's the 1986 Williams FW11 with a 1,494cc turbocharged V8 Honda engine that was designed by Frank Dernie and was driven by Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet in the 1986 season, and by the same two drivers as the slightly modified Williams FW11B in the 1987 season. In 1986 Nigel Mansell won five races in the World Drivers' Championship and with two second places and two third place finishes he finishes in second place in the Championship to Alain Prost in his McLaren MP4/2C who only had four race wins, but a string of second and third places to win the Championship by two points. Nelson Piquet also had four race wins and finished in third place in the Championship, one point behind his team mate. In 1987 Nelson Piquet was World Champion with three race wins, seven second and one third place with Nigel Mansell in second place with six race wins but only three other points-scoring finishes. The Williams team won the World Constructors' Championship in 1986 and 1987 with McLaren in second place in both years.

1960 Elva 200

This car took part in the Miller Oils/AMOC Historic Formula Junior Championship race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

It's the 1960 Elva 200 of Doug Martin and I can't find out much information about the Elva 200 except that 20 examples were produced, mostly with the BMC 1,098cc engine.

1971 Jensen Interceptor Mk III

This was one of the cars on display at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.

The Jensen Interceptor was produced from 1966 to 1976 and this is a Mk III model made in 1971. Like all the earlier cars it has the 6,276cc (383 cu in) Big Block Chrysler V8 engine, which was superseded by the 7,206cc (440 cu in) Big Block V8 unit later in 1971.

1935 Aston Martin Ulster

This was one of the contestants in the Pre-War Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's the 1935 Aston Martin Ulster of Belgian Hubert Fabri, who shared the driving in the race with Rowan Atkinson. Four Aston Martin Ulster team cars were produced in 1935 and also 21 replica customer cars, both the team and customer cars having a 4-cylinder inline 1,495cc engine. CMX 743 is one of the customer cars, originally in Prince Chula's White Mouse Stable and raced by Prince Bira.

1929 Austin Burnham 16/6 and 1930 Austin Burnham 12/4

These two cars are making their way to the start line in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester to take part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in May 1992.

The programme of the event has very brief notes about the cars taking part in the Run and here's what it says about these two:

73  1929 Austin Burnham Sixteen-six

       Albert Grimshaw, Cleveleys,

       Blackpool

74   1930 Austin 12/4 Burnham

        David J. Fellows, Fulwood, Preston

Both cars had taken part in earlier runs, however, and the 1991 programme tells us that the registration number of the 1929 car is DL6623 and: 'This Burnham originated on the Isle of Wight and was with the original owner until 1963. This was Austin's first attempt at a six-cylinder engine, put into the well tried 12 hp 4 cylinder chassis. It worked very well - a powerful combination.'

The only information I can find about the 1930 car is that the registration number is TF678 and it has a 4 cylinder 12 hp 1490cc engine.

1918 De Dion Bouton Model HD

The Vintage Sports Car Club's meetings at Oulton Park always included a Concours D'Elegance organised by the Cheshire Life magazine and the Boulogne and Hawthorn Trophies meeting in May 2005 was no exception. This is one of the cars that I photographed amongst the cars gathered there.

It's not listed in the programme of the event, but it's a 1918 De Dion Bouton Model HD and has a 4-cylinder inline 2,940cc engine. The car was auctioned by Bonhams in March 2013 and here's the history of the car they provided at that time.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph I took at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992 which featured a special display of Ferraris in the paddock.

The red car in the centre of the picture is the 1950 Ferrari 166/195 MM Touring Barchetta that the factory brought up to 195, and later to 212 specifications. Owned by Dudley Mason-Styrron it is chassis #0040M. The note about the car in the programme of the event says this:

'166/195 Barchetta

Front engined V12; 2.3 litres; 160-180 bhp at 7000rpm; ifs/double wishbones/transverse leaf springs. Rigid rear axle/semi-elliptic leaf springs. The dual model designation reflects the fact that it started out as a 2-litre car in the 166 series and finished up with a 2.4 litre engine from the 195 series. The 'Barchetta' - literally 'little boat' body is by Touring. It ran in the 1950 Mille Miglia, 4th overall (G.Bracco/U.Maglioli) and finished 12th overall. 5th in class (Luigi Villoresi) in the Targa Florio that year.'

Behind that is a 1960 Ferrari Dino 246 F1 car, one of which was the last front engined car to win a World Championship Grand Prix race - the 1960 Italian Grand Prix driven by Phil Hill. The black car on the left is a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California GT Spyder, chassis #2377GT which was owned for a long time by Hollywood film star James Coburn, and between 2008 and 2010 by Chris Evans. To the right you can see the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione, chassis #2735GT, which is the Rob Walker entered car with which Stirling Moss won the 1961 Tourist Trophy race at Goodwood.

One of the routes on the Manchester Metrolink system is from Ashton-under-Lyne to Eccles with a spur at Salford Quays going to Media City. I understand that because of track maintenance work the Eccles service currently terminates at Deansgate-Castlefield. Here are two photographs I took on a recent evening of trams going in both directions calling at Media City.

This was the tram from Eccles to Deansgate-Castlefield at Media City.

Five minutes later this was the tram from Deansgate-Castlefield to Eccles.

1957 Aston Martin DBR1

This car featured in a track display at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's Roy Salvadori in a 1957 Aston Martin DBR1, a car that replaced the DB3S and was designed by Ted Cutting to compete in the World Sportscar Championship and specifically the Le Mans 24 Hour Race. In 1957 DBR1/2 won the Nürburgring 1000km race driven by Tony Brooks and Noel Cunningham-Reid, and in 1958 won the RAC Tourist Trophy race at Goodwood with Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks. In 1959 Aston Martin finally managed to win the World Sportscar Championship, this car winning the Le Mans 24 Hour race driven by Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby whilst Carroll Shelby, Jack Fairman and Stirling Moss took it to victory in the RAC Tourist Trophy race. The Nürburgring 1000km race was won by DBR1/1 driven by Stirling Moss and Jack Fairman.

1962 Lotus 23B

This is Mike Doyle in his 1962 Lotus 23B at Lodge Corner during practice for the European Sports Prototype Trophy race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Par in August 2004.

The Lotus 23 was introduced in 1962 to compete in the smaller classes of sports car  racing and was used with engines with capacities ranging from from 750cc up to 1600cc. The programme of the event shows this car as having a 1,498cc engine, presumably the Ford Kent derived 4-cylinder inline Cosworth unit. It proved to be an extremely successful car and about 130 examples of the Lotus 23, 23B and 23C were produced between 1962 and 1963.

1962 Aston Martin DP212

The 1995 Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995 marked the Diamond Jubilee of the Aston Martin Owners Club with a display of Aston Martins in the paddock and this is one of the cars in that display.

It's the Aston Martin DP212 that was created to run in the 1962 Le Mans 24 Hour race and was driven in that race by Graham Hill and Richie Ginther. The car was built on a DB4 GT chassis with an inline 6-cylinder 4 litre engine based on the DB4 GT's 3.7 litre unit. A note in the programme of the event says this about it:

1962 Prototype DP212

The only team car entered for Le Mans in

1962, DP212 was in second place, but

forced to retire after 6 hours with

piston failure. In 1964 it was rebuilt as

a road car, but continued to be raced in

this country. In 1974 DP212 won the

Classic Car Championship, driven by

Mike Salmon for its owner Viscount

Downe, President of the AMOC.