Jaguar D-Type

I took the photographs of this car in the pit garage and pit lane at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in June 2008.

This car is a bit of a conundrum. It's Benjamin Eastick's 1955 Jaguar D-Type, but according to the programme of the event it was number 9 in the BRDC Historic Sportscars race. Twelve of these Jaguar D-Type Longnose cars were apparently made, six as works cars and six customer cars. This car is chassis XKD 133 and isn't one of the works cars so is presumably a customer car, but I can't find out any other information about it - neither the chassis number nor the registration number 207 RW turn up anything in the Jaguar Sports Racer Search site.

 What a beautiful car though!

Volvo Ailsa

This was one of the entrants in the Double Deck Buses Post 1963 Class at the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1976 Volvo Ailsa B55-10 Vanhool, and the programme of the event said this about the vehicle:

Volvo Ailsa B55, Vanhool, 1976                                                                                LWB 388P

Entered by    The 388 Group, High Green, Sheffield

Spent most of its life with SYPTE and was sold to Hampshire Bus in 1986 who converted

it to  single door  layout.  The 388 Group  purchased the  vehicle in 1994  and  restoration

work is already quite advanced.

Lancia Aurelia B20 GT

This car was in the Paddock at the VSCC's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It's a 1954 Lancia Aurelia B20 GT and I took the photograph because it's a car that you don't see very often, even at historic race meetings. It has a 2½ litre V6 engine, and what's particularly special about this one is that it was once owned by the 1958 World Champion Mike Hawthorn himself. You can read about Mike and the car in this Mike Hawthorn tribute site.

MG K3 Magnette

I photographed this car in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's Philippe Douchet's 1,100cc supercharged 1934 MG K3 Magnette, chassis #3026 that was driven in the Abingdon Trophy Race for MG Sports Cars by Bob Jones. According to the programme of the event this car was one of George Eyston's team cars in 1934.

There are three badges on the front of the car and from the top left these are:

The Vintage Sports Car Club

The British Automobile Racing Club

The Triple-M Register

Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car in the paddock at Donington Park at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting in June 2003.

It's not listed in the programme of the event and I don't recall whether or not it took part in any of the races, but it's the 1959 Ferrari Dino 246 S of Harry Leventis, chassis #0784. The car has a 2,417cc V6 engine and the body was fashioned by Carrozzeria Fantuzzi. The barchetta.cc record doesn't show this car as appearing at this Donington Park meeting, but in April of 2003 Tony Dron drove the car in a Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at Spa where it had the race number 71. Harry Leventis drove his 1964 Ferrari Dino 206 SP in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at Donington, so it's possible that Tony Dron also drove the 246 S here.

Volvo

Here are 3 Volvos that I photographed at the Footman James Classic Car Show at EventCity, Manchester in September 2016.

This is a 1957 Volvo PV444-08 that was imported from Sweden in 1985 by the owner of a Devon Volvo Dealership and used very little for the next 14 years. It is one of only four Volvo PV444-08’s known in Europe and the only example in the UK. PV444-08’s were produced for the USA Market only, but a few did escape onto the home (Swedish) market. These cars can be recognised by the fact that they are fitted with the sports B16B engine which has twin SU 1¼ carburettors.

This car, pictured in the car park outside the arena, is a 1972 Volvo P1800ES, a 2 litre fuel injection estate version of Volvo P1800.

This is one of the 120 Series Volvos, a 1968 Volvo 121, also known as the Volvo Amazon. It has a B18 badging on the grille, meaning that it is powered by the 1,778cc B18 engine.

Cooper T41

This car competed in the HGPCA Pre-'66 GP Cars race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's Ian Horner's 1956 1,460cc Cooper T41, and on 10 May 2016 I showed a photograph of this car at a VSCC meeting at Oulton Park in 2006. The T41 was designed by Owen Maddock and this Wikipedia article tells you the story of Owen Maddock and the early Cooper years.