1952 Allard J2X Le Mans

This car competed in the Hawthorn International Trophy race at the Vintage Sports Car Club meeting at Oulton Park in June 2005.

It's the1952 Allard J2X Le Mans of Tom Walker. The Allard J2 had motor cycle style mudguards and the J2X was introduced to comply with 1952 FIA regulations which said that cars must have all-enveloping bodywork.

1950s cars

This is a photograph that I took in the paddock at the Coys International kric Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

The cars on the left are:

TNX 426 1955 Austin A50 Cambridge, 1,500cc

PSK364 1956 Standard Super 10, 948cc

PDO 721 (1960 Morris Minor Series III, DVLA say 848cc – should be 948cc

RDU 597 (1955 Morris Minor Series II, 803cc

I can’t make out the registration numbers of the cars on the right, but they are a 1960s Triumph Herald and a Ford Prefect E493A from 1949-1953

1951 AEC Regent III

This is a photograph that I took at the Greater Manchester Transport Society’s Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park in September 1990.

It’s not listed in the programme of the event but it’s a 1951 AEC Regent III with a Weymann body originally owned by Morecambe & Heysham Corporation.

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.