This car took part in the Cheshire
Building Society Allcomers Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman
Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1981.
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It’s Richard Pilkington's 1950
4,482cc straight-6 Talbot Lago T26 GS with the offset driving position which meant
it could compete in Grand Prix or Sports Car races. It's chassis #110057 and is
the car with which Louis Rosier and Juan Manuel Fangio took part in the 1951 Le
Mans 24 Hour race, retiring after 9 hours. It was then given an all-enveloping
sports car body and ended up in the hands of Georges Grignard in 1953, but
after an accident at Montlhéry in 1954 in which his co-driver Guy Mairesse was
killed, Grignard locked the wrecked car away in his garage. Richard Pilkington
bought the wreckage in 1958 and after racing the car in its sports car form for
some years he eventually restored it to its original cycle-wing body form,
racing it at historic race meetings in both sports car and vintage GP races.
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