BRM P180

This was one of the cars competing in the Force Pre-1972 Grand Prix Cars race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's Luke Chapman's 1972 BRM P180, chassis number P180/02, driven in the race by Flavien Marçais. The P180 was intended to be a replacement for the P153 and P160 cars that had raced in the 1971 season, sharing the same 3 litre V12 engine. Only two cars were built, but were so uncompetitive that they were dropped at the end of the season,being replaced by updated versions of the P160.

On 14 June 2016 I showed a photograph of the other P180, chassis P180/01, taken at Silverstone in 1999.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the cars displayed in the special Ferrari Feature at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's James Allington's 2953cc V12-engined 1959 Ferrari 250 TR59 Fantuzzi Spyder, chassis #0770TR. The car competed in the major World Sportcar Championship races of 1959 and 1960 in the hands of drivers such as Phil Hill, Olivier Gendebien, Wolfgang von Trips and Tony Brooks. The programme of the event said this about the car:

32   250 TR Testarossa

Front-engined offset V12; 3 litres; 300bhp at 7600rpm;

built in 1959. After disastrous 1959, including retirement

at Le Mans and hard-earned fifth place in Tourist Trophy

(Gurney pushed car over the line with puncture for fifth

place), modifications made for 1960 created better

racers and Ferrari won World Championship, with six

cars in top seven at Le Mans. 0770 was the missing one,

after running out of fuel.

Maserati 250F

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

It's the 1957 Maserati 250F of Brandon Smith-Hilliard, seen here in the pit garage. The Maserati 250F typifies Formula One motor racing of the 1950s, and the car competed in the entire period of the 2½ litre formula from the first race, the Argentinian Grand Prix of 1954, to the last one, the USA Grand Prix of 1960.

Lotus BRM

I took this photograph in the paddock on practice day for the British Grand Prix at Aintree in July 1962.

It's Wolfgang Seidel in his Lotus BRM, a 1962 Lotus 24, chassis #946, with a BRM P56 1½ litre V8 engine. An amateur driver, Wolfgang Seidel competed in Grand Prix racing between 1953 and 1962 without any notable success, this race at Aintree being his final drive. He qualified 21st and last on the grid and retired from the race on lap 11. He had some success in sports car racing, winning the Targa Florio with Edgar Barth in a Porsche 718 RSK in 1959, finishing in second place in the Reims 12 hour race with Phil Hill in a Ferrari 250 GT in 1957, and in third place in the Sebring 12 hour race with Harry Schell in a Porsche 718 RSK in 1958.

Aston Martin DB4 & DB4 GT

Here are photographs of four Aston Martins taken at the Aston Martin Owners Club Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002, three DB4 models and one DB4 GT.

This is Roy Stephenson's 1960 Aston Martin DB4. The DB4 had a straight-6 DOHC 3,670cc engine producing 240bhp, but the programme of the event shows the engine capacity to be 4,500cc, so it appears to be one of the DB4 Lightweight Competition cars that had their engines enlarged to 4½ litres.

This is the 1960 DB4 of Andy Jenkinson, and is another of the Lightweight Competition cars with a 4½ litre engine.

This car at Lodge Corner during one of the races is the 1959 DB4 of Pete Foster, yet another 4½ litre car, as were most of the DB4s at the meeting.

This is the 1960 DB4 GT of Peter Thornton, and has had its engine uprated to 4.2 litres.

Porsche 956

I photographed this car in the paddock at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's a 1983 Porsche 956, but although there are several Porsche 962s listed in the programme of the event there is no 956, and car number 2 is a Jaguar XJR 16. I can't recall if it competed in the Group C/GTP Sports Cars race, so don't know whose car it was. The names of Derek Bell and Stefan Bellof are painted on the door of the car, so logically it ought to be chassis 007, 008 or 009, as they shared drives in those cars in period.

On 19 October 2016 I showed a photograph of another Porsche 956 at Silverstone in 1993.

Jaguar XK120

This was one of the cars on display at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the 1950 Jaguar XK120, powered by the 3,442cc straight-6 DOHC XK6 engine, in which Ian Applyard won a Coupe des Alpes in the Alpine Rally for three consecutive years, from 1950 to 1952. On 2 December 2015 I showed a photograph of this car that I took at Oulton Park in 2004.

Hyde Classic Car Show

Here's a few photographs taken at a Classic Car Show held a couple of weeks ago on the Market Square at Hyde, Cheshire.

1956 Daimler Conquest Century with 2,433cc straight-6 engine, produced by Daimler from 1953 to 1958

The Toyota Sera was built solely for the Japanese market, from 1990 to 1995, and this example was imported into the UK in 2000. It has a 1,496cc fuel-injection transverse straight-4 engine driving the front wheels.

Built by the Standard Motor Company, this is a 1953 Triumph Mayflower, produced from 1949 to 1953. Nicknamed the 'Razor Edge' like its big brother the Trumph Renown, it had a straight-4 side-valve 1,247cc engine, and as well as Coventry it was also assembled in Port Melbourne, Australia and Nyköping, Sweden.

Produced from 1965 to 1980, this is a 1974 MGB GT, with a 1,798cc straight-4 engine.

This is a 1961 Austin A40 Farina Mk I, the body designed by the Italian coachbuilder Pininfarina. It used the straight-4 948cc Austin A-series engine and was produced from 1958 to 1961.

This is a 1,993cc 4-cylinder in-line 1975 Ford Escort RS200 Mk1, produced from 1973 till 1975.

Friday's Ferrari

This car was part of a display of classic cars at the HSCC's Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.

It's a 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Pinin Farina Coupé, chassis #1083GT, and the information sheet behind the windscreen wiper claims that it was the 'First Ferrari sold in UK, by World Champion Mike Hawthorn's TT Garage'. It goes on to say:

'The Ferrari 250 was the company's most successful early model, produced at Maranello from 1954 to 1964.

Power was provided by the Columbo Tipo 128 single-OHC 2,953cc engine, delivering up to 296bhp.

Ferrari's Columbo V12 debuted on the race track, with racing 250s preceding road cars by three years.

With an all-in weight hundreds of pounds lighter (eg half the weight of contemporary XK Jaguars), the power-to-weight ratio far outclassed its competitors.'

The information sheet also says about this particular car:

'5 HPD

Chassis 1083: the second 250 GT PF delivered to TT Garage. featured at London Motor Show 1958.

Painted white with black upholstery, the first Ferrari sold in UK through Ferrari's growing distribution network.

5HPD bought by Irish landowner Major Desmond Fitzgerald, a resident of Park Lane, Mayfair.

List Price was £6000: an immense sum in 1958. The car was first registered on 7th November 1958.

Repainted in gold by 1964, and black during an extensive 1980s restoration at Maranello Concessionaires.

Cherished by a Cheshire gentleman. Regularly used locally and at Ferrari events.

Maintained in first-class original condition in honour of the UK's First Formula One World Champion and accomplished Le Mans winner.'

The car took part in a parade lap of cars before the start of racing on the Sunday of the meeting.

Talbot Lago T26 GS

This car took part in the VSCC Flockhart Trophy Race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006.

It's Richard Pilkington's 1950 Talbot T26 GP car, but one that had been adapted to also run in sports car events. It's chassis #110057, the car with which Louis Rosier and Juan Manuel Fangio competed in the 1951 Le Mans 24 Hour race, but retired in the 9th hour after completing 92 laps. It was then given an all-enveloping sports car body and ended up in the hands of Georges Grignard in 1953, but after an accident at Montlhéry in 1954 in which his co-driver Guy Mairesse was killed, Grignard locked the wrecked car away in his garage. Richard Pilkington bought the wreckage in 1958 and after racing the car in its sports car form for some years he eventually restored it to its original cycle-wing body form, racing it at historic race meetings in both sports car and vintage GP races. After Richard Pilkington had owned the car for 54 years it was put up for auction by RM Auctions at Monaco in 2012, but apparently did not meet its reserve.

Messerschmitt Kabinenroller

This was one of the vehicles displayed in Heaton Park, Manchester, at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in September 1993.

It's a 1960 Messerschmitt KR200, but not shown in the programme of the event. The Kabinenroller was designed by Fritz Fend, and since Willy Messerschmitt was not allowed to produce aircraft after the war the car was built in his factory at Regensburg by Fend, Messerschmitt having little to do with production other than lend his name to the project. When Messerschmitt was allowed to produce aircraft again in 1956 he sold the Regensburg works to Fend who continued with production there until 1964. The first Kabinenroller built by Fend was the KR175 which had a 173cc Fichtel & Sachs single-cylinder two-stroke engine, and for the subsequent KR200 the engine was enlarged to 191cc. Two people could travel in these cars, sitting in tandem one behind the other.

Veritas Meteor

This car was one of the entrants in the Pre 1952 Grand Prix Cars race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's Michael Rudnig's 1,988cc straight-6 1950 Veritas Meteor F2 car that was driven in the race by Stanley Mann (Michael Rudnig drove Stanley Mann's Bentley Jackson special 'Old Mother Gun' - the car behind the Veritas here - in that race). The Veritas Meteor wasn't very successful in the 1950s, the best performances being by Karl Kling in his own Veritas Meteor Streamliner.

On 3 November 2015 I showed a photograph of Michael Rudnig's car that I took at Silverstone in 1997.

Lola Mk1 Prototype

This car took part in the 1950s Drum-Braked Sports Racing Cars race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's the 1958 Lola Mk1 Prototype of Richard Wills which had recently been restored by Hall & Hall. Originally powered by a Coventry Climax 4-cylinder 1,098cc FWA engine, the programme at this Donington Park event showed its engine then to have a capacity of 1,220cc.

Two Brabhams

These two cars competed in the HSCC Classic Racing Cars Championship Race at the HSCC's Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2001.

This is David Newton's 1,498cc 1965 Brabham BT14. The BT14 was intended for Formula Libre racing and 10 examples of the car were produced in 1965/66. I've seen that this car is claimed to be chassis #FL-9-65, but that seems unlikely looking at the recorded history of that car.

This car is the 1,600cc 1965 Brabham BT16 of Cliff Giddens, a car intended for Formula 2 racing, and appears to be chassis #F2-7-65.

Jaguar XJ220

This car did not compete in any of the races, but was in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's a Jaguar XJ220, a car that was developed for Group C racing by JaguarSport Ltd in conjunction with Tom Walkinshaw Racing in the 1990s. This particular car is one of those prepared by Don Law Racing. The production versions of the XJ220 were powered by a 3½ litre turbocharged V6 engine.

Friday's Ferrari

The SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004 included a Ferrari display and also a track demonstration by various Ferrari Corse Clienti members. This car formed part of the display in the paddock and was also taken on several laps of the circuit by Ferrari test driver Andrea Bertolini.

It's the 3-litre V10 Ferrari F2002, one of the most successful Grand Prix cars of all time, and which was driven in the 2002 season by Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello. Of the 17 races in the 2002 season, Michael Schumacher won 11, with 5 second places and a third place. Rubens Barrichello won 4 races, with 5 second places and a third. The other two races were won by Ralf Schumacher in a Williams and David Coulthard in a McLaren.

Classic Car Show Manchester

The 2017 Classic Car Show Manchester is due to be held at EventCity this coming weekend, and here are a few photographs taken at last year's show.

1957 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible

1956 Citroën Traction Avant

1981 Delorean DMC-12

1968 Morris Minor 1000

1957 Heinkel Kabine Microcar

Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren

All the photographs I took that day are in this Flickr album.

Cooper Bristol

The Cooper Bristol was the car with which 1958 World Champion Mike Hawthorn made his name in the 1952 season, and which alongside HWM and Connaught carried the British flag in the 1952 and 1953 seasons when the World Championship was run to Formula 2 regulations. The engines were Bristol-built derivatives of the 1,971cc BMW 328's straight-6 engines that powered all Bristol cars until 1961. Ten examples of the Cooper Bristol were entered in the Twelve Lap Scratch Race for Post War Racing Cars at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996, and three of those cars are pictured below.

This is the 1952 model of Proby Cautley, a Mark I car. The Mark I car was later designated Type 20.

This is the 1953 car of Roderick MacPherson, a Mark II car, later called a Type 23.

This car shown at Lodge Corner during the race is the 1952 T20 Mark I car of Spencer Flack.

On 17 July 2016 I showed a photograph of four Cooper Bristols at Silverstone in 1996 which included two of the cars shown above.

Maurice Trintignant (and Stirling Moss)

This is another of my brother's Kodak Brownie 127 photographs from practice day at the 1956 British Grand Prix at Silverstone in July 1956.

It's the French driver Maurice Trintignant who drove a Vanwall in the race, and Stirling Moss who drove one of the eleven Maserati 250F's. Neither finished the race, Trintignant retiring with fuel line problems and Moss with transmission failure. Maurice Trintignant had a lengthy career in racing, from 1938 to 1965, his best seasons in the World Drivers' Championship being 1954 and 1955 when he finished in fourth position, and he won the Monaco Grand Prix on two occasions. In 1955 he drove an outdated Ferrari 625 to victory after the Mercedes-Benz W196 cars of Juan Fangio and Stirling Moss had suffered mechanical problems and Alberto Ascari had crashed his Lancia D50 into the harbour. In 1958 he won in Rob Walker's 2-litre rear-engined Cooper Climax, beating the Ferrari 246 Dinos of Luigi Musso and Peter Collins into second and third places. Only six cars finished the race. Maurice Trintignant also drove in the World Sportscar Championship for many years, competing regularly in the Le Mans 24 Hour race for Ferrari and Aston Martin amongst others, and winning it in a Ferrari 375 Plus with Froilán González in 1954.

ATS 100

This car competed in the HGPCA Race for Pre-1966 Grand Prix Cars at the HGPCA's International Historic Grand Prix meeting at Donington Park in May 2004.

It's the 1962 ATS 100 GP, entered for the race by Bruce Shipman and driven by Jason Wright. Designed by former Ferrari chief engineer Carlo Chiti, it was the only F1 car produced by ATS. Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti were the drivers, and the cars only started in five Grand Prix races (all in 1963), both cars retiring in the Belgian, Netherlands, USA and Mexican races, and finishing in eleventh and fifteenth places respectively in the Italian Grand Prix.

Here's Jason Wright at the Old Hairpin, leading the 1961 1½ litre Lotus 18 of Mark Griffiths.

On 16 January 2016 I showed a photograph of an ATS 100 at Donington Park in 2005.

Messerschmitt Bf 109E

The Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park on 26/28 August 2017 featured various other activities alongside the weekend's races, including classic car displays, vintage bus tours round the circuit, a WWII military camp, and this WWII Messerschmitt Bf 109E.

Alongside the aeroplane was this list of its mechanical details and performance statistics:

Lancia Fulvia

This was one of the competitors in the HSCC Historic Road Sports race at the HSCC's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

It's Paul Howarth's 1969 Lancia Fulvia Zagato Sport 1.3 S, an uprated version of the 1.3 Sport with a 1,298cc V4 engine producing 92hp.

Friday's Ferrari

This car was driven by Tony Dron in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the Fantuzzi-bodied 1959 Ferrari Dino 246 S of Harry Leventis, chassis #0784, with a 2,417cc V6 engine. The car originally had a body resembling the 3 litre V12 engined Ferrari 250 TR, but at the end of the 1960 season when the car was sold to Luigi Chinetti he had the body replaced with this one.

On 7 July 2017 I showed a photograph of this car at Donington Park in 2003.

Maserati 4CL

This car competed in the HGPCA Pre '52 GP Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's Norbert Schmitz-Koep's 1939 Maserati 4CL, chassis #1566, and sitting in the cockpit is Martin Morris. Norbert Schmitz-Koep is sitting alongside in another of his cars, a 1934 Maserati 4CS. The Maserati 4CL was designed for Voiturette racing, and had a supercharged 1,491cc straight-4 engine. The car had some success in it's first season until racing was curtailed by the Second World War, and dominated racing in the years immediately following the war in the hands of drivers such as Raymond Sommer, Tazio Nuvolari and Luigi Villoresi, until the arrival of the Alfa Romeo 158.

Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner

I took these photographs at 10:34am on 26 August 2017 of a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner passing over Hyde on its way to landing at Manchester Airport.

Flightradar24 said that it was TUI Airlines flight BY644 from Bristol to Cancun.

It's registration number is G-TUIH

The Flightradar24 flight record simply says that it was diverted to Manchester Airport.