Friday's Ferrari

This is  a photograph that I took at the Ferrari Racing Days event at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a 2013 Ferrari FF which has a 6,262cc V12 engine and is the first production Ferrari with four-wheel drive. A total of 2,291 vehicles were produced  between 2011 and 2016.

1958 Leyland Titan PD2/40

This is a photograph that I took at the Greater Manchester Transport Society’s Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1988.

It’s not listed in the programme of the event but it’s a vehicle from their own Museum of Transport, a 1958 Leyland Titan PD2/40 with a Burlingham body, which entered service in 1958 and was withdrawn in 1975.

1954 Cooper-Norton

I took this photograph during the Scratch Race for 500cc Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1982.

It's Paul Schroeder in what the programme of the event says is a 1954 Cooper-Norton, probably a MkVIII.

1958 Lister Monza Jaguar

This car took part in the Flockhart Trophy Race at Donington Park at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting in June 2008.

It's the 1958 Lister MonzaJaguar of Rod Jolley with a 6-cylinder inline 3,781cc Jaguar engine that was built for Ecurie Ecosse to run in the Race of Two Worlds at Monza. The Race of Two Worlds was conceived as an annual exhibition event to be run on the banked oval at Monza and contested by two teams of cars from the USA (USAC cars as in the Indianapolis 500 race) and from Europe (F1 World Championship cars). Because of safety concerns and costs (and a lack of enthusiasm amongst the European F1 teams) the event only lasted for two years, 1957 and 1958, being won by the American cars on both occasions. Ecurie Ecosse entered a team of three Jaguar D-types in the 1957 race, and in 1958 two Jaguar D-types and this single seat Lister Jaguar built especially for the race and consequently known as the Lister Jaguar Monzanapolis. The building was completed in the paddock at Monza leaving insufficient time to paint the aluminium body of the car before the race, but it was later painted Ecurie Ecosse blue. It was subsequently  returned to the original unpainted finish.

1957 Maserati 300S

This car competed in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It’s Burkhard von Schenk’s 1957 Maserati 300S, a model that was built from 1955 to 1959 to compete in the 3-litre class of the World Sportscar Championship. The Maserati 300S has a 6-cylinder inline 2,991cc engine and Burkhard von Schenk’s car is chassis #3082.

1925 D.F.P.

This is a photograph that I took during a Handicap race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1973.

The entry list for this race in the programme of this event says that number 178 is the 1925 D.F.P. of W.R.Halkyard and it has a 1,098cc engine. A further note in the programme says "Other unusual cars in the handicaps include No. 178, W.R.Halkyard's 1925 D.F.P., a make made famous before the first World War by W.O.Bentley".

1907 Renault Landaulette

This is a photograph that I took in Manchester in June 1978 before the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club’s Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run.

It’s a 1907 Renault Landaulette and the programme of the event had this note about the car:

 

25        Mr. G. A. Griffin, Telford, Salop.

             1907 Renault Landaulette, 24.8 h.p.

This car was originally owned by the Hepworth family, and is one of the tallest cars made, being 7ft 6in high. It has a crest on the door declaring  “Loyal à Mort”. Her French ancestry is self-evident. It is being taken to Dieppe on April 20^th on a weekend rally.