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Wednesday 6 November 2024

1956 Bedford TA Tipper

This is one of the vehicles that took part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1988.
It's not listed in the programme of the event, but it's a 1956 Bedford TA Tipper, some 200,000 of which were built between 1953 and 1958.

Tuesday 5 November 2024

1964 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe

I took this photograph of a car approaching the Knickerbrook corner at Oulton Park during the RAC International Tourist Trophy Race in May 1965.
It's Jack Sears driving the Alan Mann Racing Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe and he ended the race in seventh place. The race was run in two two-hour long heats with the winner being the car that covered the greatest overall distance. It was won by Denny Hulme in a Brabham BT8, having covered 138 laps, 69 laps in each of the heats. Jack Sears managed 61 laps in the first heat and 66 in the second for a total of 127 laps.

Monday 4 November 2024

Historic Rally Cars

This was part of a display of rally cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.
From the left, Audi Quattro, Ford RS2000, Ford Escort and Lancia Stratos.

Sunday 3 November 2024

1914 Ford Model T

This was one of the cars that took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run on a very wet day in June 1984.
It's not shown in the programme of the event but it's a 1914 Ford Model T.

Saturday 2 November 2024

1979 Triumph TR7

I took this photograph at Brittens chicane during the AMOC Intermarque Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017.
It's David Falkingham in his 1979 Triumph TR7, which according to the programme of the event had a 4.6 litre engine. The TR7 was introduced in 1974 and had a 1,998cc 4-cylinder inline engine and this car morphed into the TR8 with a 3,528cc V8 engine. Presumably David Falkingham's car has the later Rover 4,552cc V8 engine.

Friday 1 November 2024

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph that I took at Silverstone on 24 September 2017 at the Ferrari meeting celebrating Ferrari's 70th anniversary.
The picture shows two of the then current range of cars that were in a Passione Ferrari display. The yellow car is a Ferrari 488 Spider and the silver car is a Ferrari 488 GTB. Both have the F154 CB 3,902cc twin-turbocharged V8 engine producing 670 CV.

Thursday 31 October 2024

1995 Williams FW17

This is one of the Williams cars that I photographed at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.
It's the Williams FW17 that was driven by Damon Hill and David Coulthard in the 1995 season. The car was designed by Adrian Newey and had a 2,992cc V10 Renault RS7 engine. Damon Hill won four of the seventeen Grands Prix that season to finish in second place in the World Drivers' Championship to Michael Schumacher who won nine of the races in his Benetton. David Coulthard won one race and Williams finished in second place in the World Constructors Championship to the Benetton team.