Maserati A6GCM

This car competed in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1952 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's John May's 1951 Maserati A6GCM, a car designed by Alberto Massimino and Vittorio Bellentani with a 6-cylinder in line 2-litre engine for Formula 2 racing. According to the programme of the event John May's car had an engine capacity of 1,985cc, and it looks as if it is chassis 2033.

Tatra Type 11

This car competed in one of the handicap races at the VSCC's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's Duncan Arthurs' 1925 Tatra Type 11 Rennwagen, produced by Tatra in Kopřivnice in what was then Czechoslovakia and is now the Czech Republic.

The car was designed by Hans Ledwinka and has a 1,056cc 2-cylinder air-cooled engine.

Aston Martin DB3S Coupe

This is a photograph I remember taking at Aintree in the late 1950s or early 1960s, but I can't remember which meeting it was.

It's an Aston Martin DB3S Coupe, and the only thing I can remember about it is that it was driven by Jean Bloxam that day. An internet search has shown the car to be chassis number DB3S/120, which was previously the personal road car of David Brown, then the owner of Aston Martin (and the 'DB' in the Aston Martins of that period), and it seems most likely that my photograph was taken in 1959.

Singer B37 Sports

The SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011 included the VSCC Team Relay Race for Pre-war Sports Cars. This was a 2 hour race for 14 teams of either three or four cars and this car was one of those taking part.

It's the 1937 Singer B37 Sports of Eddie Williams. The car has a 1½ litre 4-cylinder engine based on the ohc engine of the Singer Twelve and was intended to be a replacement for the less powerful 6-cylinder Le Mans model. Sadly, due to Singer's financial restructuring only 12 of these cars were built.

Friday's Ferrari

Here's a photograph of a car leaving the pit lane during a practice session for the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's Patrick Stieger in Engelbert Stieger's 1971 Ferrari 512 M, a car raced alongside the 512 S model by Ferrari in the 1970 Group 5 Sports Car Championship, but raced  solely by privateers in the 1971 season as Ferrari concentrated their efforts on the 312 PB. The 512 has a 5 litre V12 engine, and the car above is Chassis #1018, which was originally built as a 512 S in 1970 but converted to a Berlinetta 512 M in 1971.

I've previously shown photographs of the Ferrari 512 M on 9 January 2015 and 6 January 2017.

Aston Martin

Here are some of the Aston Martins not taking part in the racing that I photographed in the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2015.

This is a line-up of cars belonging to members of the Aston Martin Owners Club

1972 Aston Martin DBS V8, with 5.3 litre V8 engine, produced from 1969 to 1972 as the DBS V8, and from 1972 to 1989 known simply as the Aston Martin V8.

1984 Aston Martin V8 Vantage, with 5.3 litre V8 engine. Several Aston Martins have used the 'Vantage' name, and this is the one produced from 1977 to 1989.

Here's another Vantage model this time the Aston Martin V12 Vantage S, introduced in 2005 and still in production. This one has a 5.9 litre V12 engine.

This is the Aston Martin DB Mk III, an evolution of the DB2/4 and initially named the DB2/4 Mk III. It has the 2.9 litre straight-6 Lagonda engine. Behind it is a 1931 Aston Martin International, originally with a 1½ litre engine but now fitted, I understand, with a 3 litre unit.

The Aston Martin DB6, produced from 1965 to 1970 with a 4 litre straight-6 engine.

Bugatti Type 51

I photographed this car in the pit garage at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's E Dean Butler's 2,262cc supercharged straight-8 1931 Bugatti Type 51 and it appears to be chassis 51146, the car with which Louis Chiron won the 1931 Monaco Grand Prix. The Type 51 was the successor to the more well-known Type 35 of the 1920s. At this Silverstone meeting the car competed in the HGPCA Pre-1952 Grand Prix Car Race.