1929 Bentley Napier

I took this photograph at Old Hall Corner on the first lap of the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1974.

Leading is Peter Morley in the 1929 Bentley Napier, a vehicle that he and David Llewellyn created in 1968 using a 24 litre Napier Sea Lion engine which has a 'W' configuration - two banks of four cylinders in a 'V' with a third upright bank between them. The car was originally built on a Sunbeam chassis but after an accident was rebuilt using the chassis of a 1929 8 litre Bentley. The nose of the car was later altered to resemble that of the Napier Railton. The car behind it is Ron Footitt's Cognac Special, a 1925 AC/GN constructed in 1925 using the chassis of a GN Cyclecar and an 1,991cc AC engine.