This car competed in Richard
Seaman Memorial Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton
Park in August 1992.
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It's the 1923/17 Bequet Delage
of Alexander Boswell which Maurice Bequet and his business partner Roland Coty,
with the assistance of the Hispano Suiza factory, constructed in 1926. They
started with the chassis of a 1923 Delage 2LCV into which they installed the
11,959cc Hispanio Suiza V8 engine from a 1917 World War Two Spad fighter plane.
It raced in the Grand Prix de la Baule where it finished in third place, but
did not contest any more Grand Prix races as it didn't comply with the regulations
then in place. After competing in minor events with some success for several
years the partners sold the car in 1936. It was eventually acquired by Nigel
Arnold-Forster who restored the car in 1980 and he drove it for several years
at vintage racing events.
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