This car competed in the Jack Fairman Cup race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.
It's the 1960 Turner Climax of Declan Jones and has the 4-cylinder inline 1,216cc Coventry Climax FWE engine. This particular car has its nickname 'Tatty Turner' painted on the front wing, a legacy from its first appearance in 1960 at Mallory Park when it had been put together rather hastily and appeared with a bare fibreglass body as there hadn't been time to paint it. It finished third in its race that day and got the nickname when the commentator remarked "It may look tatty, but just look how well it's going!".
Here's the car during the race on the finishing straight, living up to its nickname with a taped-up front wing, presumably caused by an incident during the morning qualifying session.
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