1934 Aston Martin Ulster LM15

This car took part in a race for Standard and Modified Pre-war Sports Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's the 1934 Aston Martin Ulster of Russell Hicks, one of the team cars that competed in the 1934 RAC Tourist Trophy race on the Ards circuit in County Down where it finished in sixth place. In the Le Mans 24 Hour race earlier that year the car had a drilled chassis which was not allowed in the TT race, so it was rebuilt with a solid chassis and the chassis number changed from  LM11 to LM15. The three Aston Martin team cars had all failed to complete the Le Mans race so before the TT race, as green was considered to be unlucky, the cars were repainted Italian red, the colours of designer A C Bertelli's country of birth. The other two team cars in the TT finished in third and seventh places in the race following which a small number of replica cars were built and given the name 'Aston Martin Ulster'.