1928 DeSoto Race Special.

This is a photograph that I took at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It’s not mentioned in the programme of the event but I found a Bonhams sales catalogue online which gives the following information about the car:

 

1928 DeSoto Race Special

2,790cc Chrysler Flathead 6-Cylinder Engine

Approx. 45bhp

2 Edmunds Carburettors

Direct Drive

Front and Rear Live Axles with Leaf Springs

Rear Drum Brakes

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph that I took during practice for the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's Christoph Stieger in Engelbert Stieger's 3 litre 1972 Ferrari 312P, chassis 0888. It has a 2,991cc flat-12 engine, often referred to as the 312PB (the ‘B’ for Boxer to differentiate it from the earlier V12-engined 1969 312P).

2019 Bentley Bentayga

I took these photographs on the Manchester United car park in January 2022.

It’s a 2019 Bentley Bentayga and has a 3,996 cc twin-turbo V8 engine. Production of this luxury SUV started in 2015.

1971 McLaren M19A

This is a photograph That I took at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It's a 1971 McLaren M19A which was designed by Ralph Bellamy and has a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine. It was campaigned by the McLaren team in the 1971 and the first three races of the 1972 season. In the 1971 season the car was plagued with reliability problems and finished in sixth place in the World Constructors' Championship with Denny Hulme the most successful driver, finishing in thirteenth place in the World Drivers' Championship with two fourth places, a fifth and a sixth. In 1972 Denny Hulme was again the leading McLaren driver with a second place in Argentina then a win in South Africa in the first two races before driving the McLaren M19C at Monaco and for the rest of that season. He finished in third place in the World Drivers' Championship that season behind Emerson Fittipaldi and Jackie Stewart.

Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race 1965

This is a photograph that I took at the start of the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in June 1965.

Number 14 is the 1936 ERA R9B of Peter Waller, 27 is the 1936 Frazer Nash of Arthur Gibson and 20 is Basil Bowman’s 1939 Talbot Lago.

1924 Grand Prix Sunbeam

This is a photograph that I took at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It’s a 1924 Grand Prix Sunbeam which has a supercharged six-cylinder inline 1,988cc engine. Behind it is the 1925 Sunbeam Tiger with a 3,976cc V12 engine.

1937 Frazer Nash BMW 328

This is a photograph that I took at a classic car show organised by car dealers Gordon Ford of Stockport in July 1987.

It’s a 1937 Frazer Nash BMW 328 which has a 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc engine. The Frazer Nash company, AFN Ltd, started to import and assemble BMW cars in 1934 and sold them under the name of Frazer Nash-BMW.