I took this photograph of one of the cars displayed in the paddock at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.
It's a 1940 Chevrolet Master 85 Coupe bearing a plate on the front bumper that says 'Great Silk Road Rally to Australia 2001' and on the front of the roof 'The Custard Tart'. I didn't make a note of what it says on the board resting against the bumper and don't now recall what it said. However, there are two names on the door of the car and I can make out that one of them is Richard Curtis who presumably drove the car on this Great Silk Road Rally. There is a record of him competing with the car in a similar rally in 2007. Former 5 times World Drivers Champion Juan Manuel Fangio started his career driving one of these Chevrolets in long distance endurance events in South America in 1939 and he is known to have referred to it as 'The Custard Tart', though that car is in the Museo Fangio in Balcarce, Argentina.
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