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.
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