This car competed in the 1950s Sports Racing Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.
It's the 1953 Kurtis 500S of Geraint Owen which is chassis KK45 and has a 331 cu in (5,424cc) Chrysler V8 engine.
Frank Kurtis is best known for the Indianapolis 500 race winners of the 1950s, but he also built the Kurtis roadsters that were basically Indianapolis 500 cars with a two seater body. 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.
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