This car took part in the two 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
David Furnell's 1928 Riley Brooklands with a tuned version of the Riley Nine's
1,087cc 4-cylinder inline engine. The Riley Nine was designed by two of the
Riley brothers, Percy and Stanley, and the Brooklands was the work of John G
Parry Thomas and Reid Railton who shortened the chassis by some 15 inches and
fitted an undershield the full length of the car. The engine had high
compression pistons, special camshafts and 2 carburettors, increasing its
output to 50bhp.
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