This car took part in the Coys Race for Pre-1959 Drum Brake Sports Cars at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.
It's the 1954 Cooper Bristol T25 of Eddie McGuire, originally built for Sid Greene's Gilbey Engineering concern where it was given the engine from a Maserati A6GCS that the team had been racing, but had become uncompetitive. It was driven by Alan Brown and Roy Salvadori in the 1955 season and then sold to Horace Gould minus the Maserati engine. Horace Gould installed a 1,971cc Bristol engine and took the car to New Zealand, where it remained until the mid-1980s. It appears to have been given a Maserati engine again since this Donington Park event according to these photographs from the Padua Auto e Moto d'Epoca in 2017 that show the car with a Maserati badge and grille (which seems to be from a Maserati A6GCS). The Maserati engine has a number 3033 stamped on it which, if it's the engine serial number, should relate to a 1939 Maserati 8CTF unit of 2,991cc that was supplied to American Mike Boyle in 1939 - but that was an 8-cylinder engine, and the one here has only six cylinders.
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