This was one of the competitors in the 1950's Sports Racing Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005.
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It's Dean Butler's 1958 Bocar XP-5. The Bocar was a series of
limited-production two-seaters developed by Bob Carnes in Lakewood Colorado starting
with an experimental X-1 in 1958 which was followed by X-2 and X-3 examples and
about five XP-4s. The first real production cars, begun in mid-1959 were the
XP-5s which had a glass-reinforced polyester body surrounding a welded
moly-tube space frame and a beefed-up Volkswagen rear suspension. The most
common engine was a 283 cu in Corvette V8 unit. Dean Butler’s Bocar XP-5 was built by Bocar expert Doug Karon with
Mustang front suspension, Jaguar rear suspension and a 383 cu in Chevrolet small block engine - but the programme of
this event says the car has a 4,735cc engine, which equates to 299 cu in.
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