A blog largely about photos I've taken over some years of classic and historic racing and sports cars.
Sunday, 31 January 2021
1965 Lotus 32B
Saturday, 30 January 2021
1967 McLaren M1C & 1970 Osella PA3
Friday, 29 January 2021
Friday's Ferrari
Thursday, 28 January 2021
1962 BRM P578
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
1953 Cooper Bristol T25
Tuesday, 26 January 2021
1971 Surtees TS9
Monday, 25 January 2021
1937 Bentley 4¼ Litre
Sunday, 24 January 2021
1951 Chevrolet Bel Air
Saturday, 23 January 2021
1960 Lotus 15
Friday, 22 January 2021
Friday's Ferrari
Thursday, 21 January 2021
1929 Pacey Hassan Bentley
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
1984 Porsche 956B
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
USS New Jersey
On a visit to the USA in 2007 we stayed in Riverton in New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia, and made a couple of visits there during the holiday. The River Line light rail system which passes through Riverton links Trenton with Camden on the opposite bank of the Delaware River to Philadelphia and we used that on both our visits. On the Camden side of the river the Iowa class battleship the USS New Jersey is moored as a museum ship and I took these photographs, mostly from the ferry from Camden to Philadelphia, on one of our visits.
During the Korean War the ship pounded targets
on the East coast of North Korea, and following the Armistice the USS New
Jersey conducted training and operation cruises until she was decommissioned on
August 21, 1957.
She was briefly reactivated in 1968 and sent to Vietnam to support US troops before returning to the mothball fleet in 1969. Reactivated again in 1982 USS New Jersey was sent to Lebanon to protect U.S. interests and U.S. Marines, firing her main guns at Druze and Syrian positions in the Beqaa Valley east of Beirut.
Decommissioned for the last time on 8 February 1991, USS New Jersey was briefly retained on the Naval Vessel Register
before being donated to the Home Port Alliance of Camden, New Jersey for use as
a museum ship in October 2001.
Monday, 18 January 2021
AC Ace and AC Aceca
Sunday, 17 January 2021
1910 Léon Bollée Landaulette
Saturday, 16 January 2021
1987 Sauber Mercedes C9
1987 Sauber Mercedes C9
The Sauber C9 (later named the
Sauber Mercedes C9 or Mercedes-Benz C9) was a Group C prototype race car
introduced in 1987 as a continuation of the partnership between Sauber as a
constructor and Mercedes-Benz as an engine builder for the World Sportscar Championship.
The C9 replaced the previous Sauber C8. For its debut season in 1987 the cars
were run by Kouros Racing, named after the fragrance brand of its sponsor, Yves
Saint Laurent, although officially backed by Mercedes-Benz. The team managed a
mere twelfth in the teams' standings, scoring points in only a single round. For
1988, Kouros was dropped as a sponsor, forcing the team to be renamed Sauber
Mercedes. As a result, Mercedes Benz used AEG-Olympia for sponsor – AEG being
owned by Daimler-Benz at the time. They managed to finish second in the
championship behind Silk Cut Jaguar with five wins for the season.
Unfortunately at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the team suffered an embarrassing
setback when they were forced to withdraw due to concern over their Michelin tyres.
Finally, in 1989, the car was able
to achieve great success. Beside replacing the black colour scheme for its
national plain silver scheme, reducing AEG as a minor sponsor, the older M117
5.0L turbocharged V8 engine was upgraded to the M119, which replaced steel
heads with new aluminium. The C9 was able to win all but one race in the 1989
season, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans. During the qualifying for Le Mans,
the C9 recorded a speed of 247 mph (398 km/h) on the Mulsanne Straight, a record.
Mercedes driver Jean-Louis Schlesser would end up taking the driver’s
championship that season.
Friday, 15 January 2021
Friday's Ferrari
Thursday, 14 January 2021
Allard
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
1952 Lancia Aurelia B20
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
1967 Atkinson 'Silver Knight'
This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.
Monday, 11 January 2021
1958 Maserati 300S
Sunday, 10 January 2021
1933 Napier Railton
The VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2011 featured demonstration runs by Brooklands Museum's 24 litre Napier Railton, and here's the car in the pit garage before the start of that day's runs.
Saturday, 9 January 2021
1934 MG
This car competed in a scratch race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.
Friday, 8 January 2021
Fridays Ferrari
I photographed this car at the Ferrari Racing Day meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.
It's a 1995 Ferrari 456 GT, with a 5,474cc F116 V12 engine at the front which has twin overhead camshafts on each bank, and two valves per cylinder. The body was designed at Pininfarina by Pierto Camardella. This car followed the Ferrari 412 and was in production from 1992 to 2003, being replaced by the 612 Scaglietti.
Thursday, 7 January 2021
1978 Chevron B43
This car took part in the Single Seater Challenge/Toyota Formula 3 Race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.
It's Chris Fearon's 1978 Chevron B43 and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,997cc Toyota engine. Sixteen of these cars were built, but the Chevron B43 proved to be a difficult car to set up for a race and didn't achieve much success, although Patrick Gaillard managed wins at Imola and the Nürburgring in that year's European Formula 3 Championship.
Wednesday, 6 January 2021
1939 Maserati 4CL
This car competed in a Celebration Maserati Invitation Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Maserati themed SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.
Tuesday, 5 January 2021
1962 Lotus 24
I took this photograph on the start/finish straight at Aintree during practice for the 1962 British Grand Prix.
It's the UDT Laystall Racing Team's 1962 Lotus 24 driven by Masten Gregory and for this race it had the 4-cylinder inline 1,500cc Coventry Climax FPF engine, although for most of the races that year he drove it with a 1,498cc V8 BRM P56 engine. He qualified in fourteenth place on the grid and ended the race in seventh position, one lap behind the winner, Jim Clark in a Lotus 25. Masten Gregory didn't have a very successful season with the car, scoring a single point in the World Drivers' Championship with a sixth place in the USA Grand Prix.
Monday, 4 January 2021
1994 Lister Storm
I took this photograph in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.
Sunday, 3 January 2021
Aston Martin
I took this photograph in the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993.
Saturday, 2 January 2021
1960 Porsche 718
I took this photograph at Tom Wheatcroft's Donington Park Museum in May 1989.
Friday, 1 January 2021
Friday's Ferrari
This car is listed in the programme of the event as a reserve for the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.
It's the 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 C of Carlos Monteverde and was due to be driven in the race by David Franklin. The 365 GTB/4 C is a competition version of the GTB/4 with an aluminium body and the Gioacchino Colombo designed 4,390cc V12 engine is specially tuned to give 400 bhp. Carlos Monteverde's car is chassis #15667 and is the eighth of the fifteen competition cars that were built. The car was originally acquired by Charles Pozzi who entered it for the 1972 Le Mans 24 Hour race where it was driven by Claude Ballot-Léna and Jean-Claude Andruet, finishing in fifth place overall and winning the GTS class.