1963 Lancia Appia

This was one of the cars on display at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.

It's a 1963 Lancia Appia Series III and has a 1,090cc V4 engine designed by Vittorio Jano. The Lancia Appia was introduced in 1953 and the Series I and II cars had the same shield-shaped grille of the Lancia Aurelia. The series III car was produced from 1959 to 1963 has the horizontal grille similar to the one first seen on the 1957 Lancia Flaminia, and has the Lancia badge inside a shield in the centre of the grille.

This is the description shown on the windscreen of the car at the Manchester show:

NB: Although this description shows that it's a 1963 car the DVLA record says that the year of manufacture was 1961, but these DVLA records are not always accurate.

1966 Shelby GT 350

This car took part in the HSCC Historic Road Sports race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

It's the 1966 Shelby 350 GT of Kevin Kivlochan and has the 289 cu in Ford Small Block V8 engine, shown as 4,727cc in the programme of the event. A total of 1,373 fastbacks were produced in 1966 and in order to help Shelby sales, Ford, the major shareholder of Hertz, persuaded the rental car giant to purchase 1,000 of these cars. The deal with the Hertz Corporation to offer these cars for rental was that after their rental-car lives were finished they would be returned to Ford, refurbished, and sold to the public as 'GT350H' models. Most Hertz cars were black with gold LeMans stripes and sill stripes, although a few were white with blue stripes. You can see on the sill of Kevin Kivlochan's car just behind the front wheel that it has the GT350H of the ex-Hertz hire cars.

1971 March 711

This car competed in the F.O.R.C.E. Pre-1972 Classic Grand Prix Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's the 1971 March 711 entered for the race by the Hasseroder Team Müller and driven by Peter Müller. The March 711 was designed by Robin Herd and as well as having a works March team cars were sold to private entrants. Like Peter Müller's car, most of the cars had a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine, but March effectively entered two teams in the 1971 races, one using the Cosworth engine and the other the 2,998cc V8 Alfa Romeo T33 engine. With the private entrants there could be as many as six of the March 711 and 701 cars in some of the Grand Prix races that year. The highest placed March driver in the World Drivers' Championship was Ronnie Peterson who finished in second place, and although he didn't manage to win any of the races he had five podium finishes.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph on the last visit I made to the Donington Collection at the Donington Park museum in September 2014. The museum was closed down in November 2018 and all the vehicles on loan were returned to their owners and as far as I'm aware the rest of them were sent for auction.

This is the 1952 Formula 2 Ferrari 500 (chassis #05) with which Alberto Ascari won the 1952 and 1953 World Drivers' Championships. When Alfa Romeo withdrew from racing after the 1951 season and BRM were seemingly unable to turn their car into a serious contender Ferrari were left as the only team capable of contesting World Championship races in 1952 under the 1½ litre supercharged/4½ litre unsupercharged formula. It was decided, therefore, to run the Championship in 1952 (and 1953) for 2 litre Formula 2 cars. Alberto Ascari won six of the eight races in 1952 and five of the nine races in 1953 and his record of 7 consecutive wins spanning the two seasons  was not beaten until Sebastian Vettel won 9 consecutive races in 2013. Ascari's winning run would have been 9 also, but was interrupted by the 1953 Indianapolis 500 mile race which was at that time included in the World Championship programme, although not contested by the European teams.

The car behind the Ferrari 500 is the 1950 Ferrari Thin Wall Special, which I featured on 8 March 2019.

1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk I

I took this photograph at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993.

It's a 1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk I and has the 2,922cc version of the 6-cylinder inline Lagonda engine. The Aston Martin DB2/4 replaced the DB2 and was in production from 1953 to 1957, first with the 2,580cc version of the engine which was replaced by the larger engine in October 1954.

Three Veteran Cars

These cars numbered 1 to 3 are lined up in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester waiting for the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1990.

The Veteran Car Club of Great Britain defines a Veteran car as one built before 1 January 1905, and these three cars fall into that category, being the three oldest cars in the 1990 run. This is what the notes in the programme of the event said about each of the cars:

1.     1898 Clement Voiturette

        Reg: DS 6713   1 cylinder   2.25 hp

        (Louise Williams, Hyde, Cheshire)

This charming little yellow veteran is believed to be one of the oldest

cars regularly run in the north west, but previous outings have not been

without mishap. It broke its crank on the 1987 Manchester to Blackpool 

run and repeated the trick on the following year's London to Brighton.

Last year, however, it completed both the Manchester and Brighton Runs

successfully. Louise was, by the way, the youngest driver to compete in

each Run.

2.     1901 De Dion Bouton Vis-a-Vis

         Reg: AD 229   1 cylinder   4.5 hp

         (John Hopwood, Stockport, Cheshire)

This De Dion spent much of its life in America. It now belongs to Major

Arnold Pownall, who is John Hopwood's father-in-law, and has entered

every Manchester to Blackpool since 1976. John has driven in and finished

the run for the last three years, and is a past winner of the Matthew Brown

Trophy.

3.     1901 De Dion Bouton Tonneau
         Reg: D 235   1 cylinder   8 hp
         (W.A. Pownall, Hazel Grove, Cheshire
The original "Surrey with the fringe on top" - this car has won the concours
in its class on the run ten times. It spent much of its early life in India where
it was owned by a prince. It was also once owned by Sir William Rootes.

1979 Williams FW07

1998 marked the 50th year of racing at the Silverstone circuit and at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting that year there was a display of fifty cars, one for each of those years.

This is the car representing 1979, the Williams FW07, and appears to be chassis FW07/02 from the Williams Grand Prix Collection. The Williams FW07 had the 2,993 V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine, was designed by Patrick Head, Frank Dernie and Neil Oatley, and bears a close resemblance to Colin Chapman's Lotus 79. In spite of the fact that it didn't appear till the fifth race of that season and teething troubles meant that the cars of both Alan Jones and Clay Regazzoni retired in their first two races the FW07 finished in second place in the World Constructors' Championship. Alan Jones won four races and ended the season in third place in the World Drivers' Championship, Clay Regazzoni winnng one race and with a further four podium places finished in fifth place in that Championship. In 1980 Alan Jones won the World Driver's Championship in the FW07 and Carlos Reutemann was in third place, second being Nelson Piquet in the Brabham BT49. Williams won the World Constructors' Championship that year, and again in 1981 though it was Nelson Piquet in his Brabham who claimed the World Drivers' Championship that year, Reutemann and Jones finishing in second and third places.

1925 Sunbeam Tiger

I took this photograph during the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy Race for Vintage Racing Cars at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.

It's Vijay Mallya coming up to Lodge Corner in his 1925 Sunbeam Tiger, and behind him David Biggins in the 1926/23 Vauxhall 14/40 Rowley Special with a 30/98 engine. The Sunbeam Tiger has a supercharged 3,976cc V12 engine formed from two of the Grand Prix Sunbeam's 6-cylinder 2 litre engines in a V formation mated to a single crankshaft and a note in the programme of the event about the car reads as follows:

'The most powerful car in today's race is the 4 litre supercharged V12 Sunbeam Tiger of Vijay Mallya, another favourite for a win, though a first appearance at Oulton Park, we think, for Vijay himself. The Sunbeam took the Land Speed Record on Southport sands at 152.33 mph in 1926 driven by Seagrave and broke the Brooklands Outer Circuit record in 1929 at 137.58 mph driven by Kaye Don. Seagrave also led the free formula Spanish GP at San Sebastian with the car for four laps later in 1926 after which the tubular front axle broke in the middle due to inaccurate boring-out and Seagrave slid to a rather uncomfortable halt. The car has twice been a winner of the Vintage Seaman Trophy at Oulton Park when entered by Sir Ralph Millais and driven by George Burton in 1965 and by Neil Corner in 1970.'

1938 Talbot 105 Speed

I photographed this car in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2011.

It's a 1938 Talbot 105 Speed, a car that used the chassis frame of the Talbot 110 and the 6-cylinder inline ohv 2,969cc engine from the Talbot 105.

Sukhoi Su-17M3

This was one of the static display aircraft at the Royal Air Force Association's Woodford Airshow in June 1994.

It's a Russian Sukhoi Su-17M3

The aircraft had a lengthy period of service, first with the Soviet Union then Russia, and was in production from 1969 to 1990. It also saw service with a variety of Eastern Bloc and Arab air forces.

Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Coppa Shell Ferrari Challenge race at the Corse Cliente Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's the Ferrari 488 Challenge of Canadian driver Rick Lovat and has a 670hp turbocharged 3,902cc V8 engine developed from that of the Ferrari 488 GTB.

1952 Jason 500cc F3

This car competed in the 500cc Formula 3 class alongside Formula Junior cars in the Historic Formula Junior Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in September 1992.

It's Roy Hunt's 1952 Jason F3 car, and it seems to be the only one ever made. It was built by Godfrey Messervy between July and November 1952, the name being taken from the initials of the months July, August, September, October and November. It has a conventional four tube chassis with double wishbone suspension at the front, and swing axle with rubber bands at the rear though this was very soon supplemented with coil springs. The original engine was a Triumph with twin plugs and fuel injection. Godfrey Messervy drove the car at a few race meetings, but had to give up his racing exploits due to business commitments - later becoming chairman of Lucas and president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, and going on to receive a Knighthood. The car disappeared until the 1980s when it received a JAP engine and gave a good account of itself in continental historic racing events, then was acquired by Roy Hunt in 1989. One oddity about the car is the bulge towards the nose of the car just above the racing number, and a groove leading up towards the driver. The bulge contains the rev counter and the groove is to enable to driver to see it.

1933 MG KN Special

This car is pictured at McLean's Corner during a practice session for the VSCC Historic Seaman Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's Anne Templeton in her 1933 MG KN Special which is based on the running gear of the 6-cylinder inline 1,271cc MG KN Magnette, but has a 1,500cc engine and a zoller supercharger. The car behind is another MG, the MG Q Type of Tom Dark which has a supercharged 850cc engine. Only 8 examples of this car were built  and this one seems to be the only one with this type of body. It appears to be the car that was driven in the 1930s at Brooklands by Doreen Evans where she lapped the outer circuit at over 114 mph.

Note 25 Aug 2020: I've been told that Tom Dark's car isn't the one that Doreen Evans used to drive, but I couldn't find any contemporary photos o that car.

1954 Kurtis 500S

This car took part in the Louis Vuitton 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

Frank Kurtis is probably better known for his cars that ran in the Indianapolis 500 race in the 1950s,  winning of five occasions, but he also built the small engined (by American standards) cars that dominated American midget car racing which took place round a ¼ mile or ½ mile oval track. He also built the Kurtis roadsters that were basically Indianapolis 500 cars with a two seater body and these were very successful in the USA, particularly on the winding circuits of the West Coast where they frequently beat the more sophisticated imported European cars. The Kurtis 500S was powered by a variety of American V8 engines, most frequently a 331 cu in Cadillac unit, but the programme of this Silverstone event doesn't identify the make of engine, just that the capacity is 4,900cc which is about 300 cu in. It was entered for the race by Don Shead and driven by James Shead.

Masten Gregory

I took this photograph during practice for the British Grand Prix at Aintree in July 1959.

Masten Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri and began his racing career in 1953 in SCCA racing in the USA. In 1954 he bought a Ferrari 375MM and brought it to Europe and had a promising season, including a win in the Daily Telegraph International race at Aintree. In 1957 he and Luigi Musso won the Buenos Aires 1000 Kilometre race in a Temple Buell Ferrari 290MM, and he also took part in Formula One racing for the first time in a Scuderia Centro Sud Maserati 250F. He actually finished in third position in his first race in that car, the Monaco Grand Prix, and ended the season in sixth place in the World Drivers Championship, and though he continued to race in Formula One till 1965 that turned out to be his best finishing position in the World Championship. He never won a World Championship Grand Prix and his best result was a second place in the 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix in a Scuderia Centro Sud Cooper T51 Maserati. He had more success in Sports Car racing with wins in the 1961 Nürburgring 1000 Kilometre race with Lucky Casner in a Camoradi Maserati Tipo 61, and the 1965 Le Mans 24 Hour race with Jochen Rindt and Ed Hugus in a North American Racing Team Ferrari 250LM. That remains the last occasion on which the race was won by a Ferrari. Masten Gregory survived several crashes in he career as a racing driver, but died of a heart attack on 8 November 1985 when only 53 years old.

1922 Diatto 20

This car competed in a scratch race and a handicap race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's the 1922 Diatto 2 litre of Bill Summers, and the only information about it in the programme of the event is that it has a 1,991cc engine. It appears to be a Diatto 20 with a single overhead camshaft 4-cylinder inline engine.

1957 Vanwall 'Streamliner'

I took this photograph in a dark corner of the Donington Park museum in March 1996 before the later alterations which provided a proper display for the Vanwall Grand Prix cars.

It's the 1957 Vanwall F1 car with the streamlined body that never actually raced. The Vanwall of 1956-58 was designed by Colin Chapman and the body by Frank Costin, and it used the Vanwall engine designed by Norton engineer Leo Kuzmicki which was basically an enlarged version of four single-cylinder 498cc Norton engines joined together. The streamlined body was taken to the high-speed Reims circuit (a triangular five-mile road circuit with just two sharp corners and a couple of long sweeping curves) in July of 1957 for the non-championship Reims Grand Prix for evaluation. Regular drivers Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks were unavailable and Roy Salvadori and Stuart Lewis-Evans were drafted in for the race. Both drivers tried the streamlined car in practice, but it proved no faster than the normal one, which both drivers preferred to use in the race.

Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's Peter Glaesel's 1953 Ferrari 375MM Spider and was driven in the race by Christian Glaesel. This car is chassis #0370AM and has the Aurelio Lampredi designed 4,494cc V12 engine. Its first race was for the Scuderia Ferrari at the 1954 Buenos Aires 1000km race which it won, driven by Giuseppe Farina and Umberto Maglioli. After that race it was acquired by Masten Gregory who had the car painted in the white and black colours seen above but then crashed the car in practice at Pebble Beach on his first appearance with it. When it had been rebuilt he raced it for the rest of the 1954 season, after which it went to his then brother-in-law Dale Duncan for the 1955 and 1956 seasons. It then had a series of different owners in the USA and after passing through the hands of Anthony Bamford and Nigel Moores in the UK in the 1970s it went to Gavin Bain in New Zealand before ending up with Peter Glaesel in 1994.

1974 March 74S & 1974 Chevron B31

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the HSCC 2 Litre Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1992.

Number 52 is the 1974 March 74S of Gregory Hart and has a 1,975cc Ford Cosworth BD series engine. The number 33 car is the 1974 Chevron B31 of Gerard MacQuillan which has a 1,998cc BMW M12 engine.

1948 Gordini T15

This car took part in the Motor Sport HGPCA Pre '52 Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival Meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's the 1948 Gordini T15 of John Foster, with a 1,430cc 4-cylinder inline Simca-based engine. The T15 took part in World Championship Grand Prix races from 1950 to 1953, with a supercharged engine in 1950 and 1951, and without the supercharger in 1952 and 1953 when races were run with the Formula 2 limit of 2 litres. In the 1952 and 1953 seasons the works Gordini team used the updated Gordini T16, but the T15 was still used by some private entrants.

1959 Gemini Mk II

I took this photograph at Redgate Corner during the Front-Engined Formula Junior Racing Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2011.

Leading is Sir John Chisholm in his 1,071cc 1959 Gemini Mk2 and behind him is the 1,100cc 1960 Lola Mk2 of Simon Goodliff. Bringing up the rear are Peter St Barbe in his 1,086cc Elva 100 and Gordon Russell in P Barford's 1,098cc 1959 Gemini Mk2. Simon Goodliff's car has a 4-cylinder inline Ford Kent engine and the other three cars have 4-cylinder inline BMC A-series engines.

1914 Humber TT

This car competed in the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy Race at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

It's the 1914 Humber TT of Kenneth Neve and it's the only survivor of the three Humbers that took part in the Tourist Trophy race in the Isle of Man in that year. The car has a 4-cylinder inline 3,295cc engine.

1947 Thornycroft Sturdy Tower Wagon

I took this photograph at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's the Greater Manchester Transport Society's former Manchester Corporation Transport 1947 Thornycroft Sturdy Tower Wagon. It was used to access the overhead wires used by the tramcars and trolleybuses that were in constant need of maintenance and repair. I've not been able to find out much information about the vehicle except from the DVLA record that says it has a 5,400cc petrol engine.

1924 Mercedes Targa Florio

Cars from the Mercedes Benz Kompressor Club which caters for owners of the supercharged sports cars built between 1927 and 1934 were present at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994. Joining them was this earlier Mercedes car.

It's a 4-cylinder inline 2 litre Mercedes, one of three cars that contested the Targa Florio race in 1924. The race took part on the mountain roads near Palermo in Sicily over 4 laps of the 108 kilometre long circuit. The cars were driven by Christian Werner, Christian Lautenschlager and Alfred Neubauer who finished in first, tenth and fifteenth places respectively in the overall standings, and in the first three places in the 1,501 to 2,000cc class. Alfred Neubauer became the Mercedes Benz team leader from 1926 until racing ended in 1939 before the outbreak of war, and was team manager again in 1954 and 1955 when Mercedes Benz returned to racing for those two years.

The cars were painted red for this race instead of the German racing colour of white, and this was apparently because spectators in the wilds of the Sicilian countryside had a habit of cheering on the red Italian cars and obstructing the path, and even throwing stones at cars of a 'foreign' colour.

Friday's Ferrari

The Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 included 'A Demonstration of Italian Racing Cars' and here, if you look closely, are two of the cars that took part.

The leading car is the 2.992cc flat-12 1980 Ferrari 312 T5 of John Fenning, being driven here by Mike Littlewood. Immediately behind him (you can just see the tops of his rear wheels and roll bar) is what appears to be the 1978 Ferrari 312 T3 of Nick Mason. The T5 was driven in the 1980 season by Gilles Villeneuve and Jody Scheckter, neither of them having a successful year and finishing in fourteenth and nineteenth places respectively in the Drivers' World Championship.

On 15 February 2019 I showed a photograph on another lap of the demonstration run with the cars almost side by side.

1964 Diva 10F

This car took part in The HSCC Guildford Estates Classic Sportscar Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987. 

It's the 1964 Diva 10F of Guildford Estates Ltd and was driven in the race by Nick Overall. Diva manufactured sports cars from 1961 to 1966, four models being produced for track use only, the Diva GT B Type, C Type and D Type, and a mid-engined car, the Valkyr. The Diva 10F was the only car designed for road use and was a version of the GT cars with thicker fibreglass bodywork and a more flexibly mounted engine. The only information about the car in the programme of the event was that it had a 1,298cc engine, presumably the 4-cylinder inline Ford Kent unit.

1993 Rickman

Walking through the back streets of Hyde in May this year I saw this car parked at the side of the road and didn't have a clue what it was. 

It seems it's a 1993 Rickman kit car, produced by Rickman Engineering Limited, a firm originally established by Derek and Don Rickman in 1960 to make motorcycle frames for scrambles and later road racing. For a time they also made complete motorcycles, at first with Royal Enfield engines and later with other powerplants. In 1985 the company began producing a small  four wheel drive kit car using various donor mechanicals, and according to the DVLA record this car has a 1.6 litre engine, possibly a 4-cylinder inline 1,599cc Ford Kent engine.

1955 Lotus Mk X

This car took part in the Champagne Charles Heidsieck Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival at Silverstone in July 1993.

It's the 1955 Lotus Mk X of Jeremy Agace, identical to the Mk VIII but which can be identified by the hump in the bonnet to accommodate the tall 1,971cc Bristol engine. The Mk VIII was designed to run in the 1500cc class and was powered by smaller capacity Ford, MG or Coventry Climax engines.

Jaguar C-Type Replica

During the Jaguar Drivers' Club's meeting at Oulton Park in April 1987 there was a parade round the circuit by some of the JDC members in their cars. I took these photographs close to the Cascades corner where the cars gathered before joining the circuit at Clay Hill via the old short circuit track.

It's a Jaguar C-Type, presumably a replica with a 6-cylinder 3,442cc Jaguar XK6 engine. I can't find any information about the car and the DVLA record says that 708 HP is now a red 1995 Rover.

1954 Triumph TR2

This car was on the stand of the Triumph TR Car Club at the Northern Classic Car Show in the Belle Vue Exhibition Halls, Manchester in September 1986.

It's a 1954 Triumph TR2, one of 8,636 cars that were built between 1954 and 1955 and was powered by a tuned version of the Standard Vanguard's 4-cylinder inline 1,991cc engine.

1948 Alta

I photographed this car on a visit to the Donington Park Museum in May 1989. The museum sadly closed in November 2018, cars on loan going back to the owners and as far as I'm aware the rest were put up for auction.

It's a 1948 Alta which was raced by George Abecassis in 1948 and 1949. I've recently come across the book that I bought at the museum on one of my visits there, and this is what it has to say about the Alta:

'The Alta

Geoffrey Taylor's 'Special'

Geoffrey Taylor was an arch motoring enthusiast. He built his first Alta car in a small workshop behind his home in Kingstone-upon-Thames between 1928 and 30, painstakingly fashioning vital engine parts out of the solid. This was followed by a line of sports and independently-suspended racing cars until he outbreak of the war.

He outlined a design for a 1½ litre supercharged Grand Prix car towards the end of the war, and announced his plans with a flourish in November 1945. But post-war shortages delayed the car's debut until 1948, when 'GP No. 1' appeared in the British Empire Trophy race in Douglas, Isle of Man.

The new Alta used an updated version of Taylor's well-proven twin overhead-camshaft four-cylinder engine, supercharged by a Roots-Alta blower driven from the crankshaft nose. He used a special four-speed all-synchromesh gearbox of his own construction with a low drive-line, allowing the driver's seat to be very low-mounted within a rakish and sleek bodyshell, reminiscent of the pre-war Mercedes also copied by ERA in their unsuccessful E-Type.

George Abecassis raced the car throughout 1948 and 1949, while his HW Motors partner John Heath also drove on occasions. Its best performance was in the 1949 British GP, when Abecassis ran fifth before a broken float chamber forced him to stop. He then fought his way back through the field to finish seventh.

For 1950 this duo concentrated on their own Alta-engined HWMs, while the same engine became standard in 2½ litre form in Connaught cars. Tony Brooks won the 1955 Syracuse Grand Prix in one of these Connaughts to score the first all-British Continental GP victory since 1924!

Three of the rubber-block suspended GP Altas were built; the others went to Geoffrey Crossle and Joe Kelly, and the Collection's car includes parts from all three.

Engine:4-Cyls IL; 2VPC; 2OHC; 78mm x 78mm. 1490cc; 230bhp/7000rpm; (S).

Chassis: Round tube ladder frame

Suspension: IRS/IFS by wishbones and rubber blocks.

Brakes: Drums, hydraulically-operated.'