This car competed in three
races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting
at Oulton Park in August 1992.
It's the 1934 MG K3 Magnette
of Philip Walker. The original K type Magnette, the K1, had a 6-cylinder inline
1,087cc engine and was available as a 4-seat open tourer or a 4-door saloon.
The K2 was an open 2-seater with a shorter chassis, and could have the same
engine as the K1 or a larger 1,271cc version of that engine. The K3 was a
racing variant using the shorter chassis and a supercharged 1,087cc engine.
Only 33 of the K3 model were made, many of which have not survived, and a
number of replicas have been made using the K1 or K3 cars. Philip Walker's car
may be one of those, and the programme of this Oulton Park event shows it to
have a 1,408cc supercharged engine.
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