Friday's Ferrari

 

I took this photograph during the Aston Martin GT Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017.

It's a 2009 Ferrari F430 Challenge and was driven in the 50 minute long race by Richard Cook and Harvey Stanley. The Ferrari F430 Challenge, which has a 4,308cc V8 engine, replaced the 360 Challenge and was produced from 2007 to 2010, being succeeded by the 458 Challenge.

1962 Lotus 24

This is a photograph that I took at Waterway Corner at Aintree on the Friday practice day for the British Grand Prix in July 1962.

It's Trevor Taylor in his Lotus 24 which was powered by the same 1,496cc Coventry Climax FWMV engine as the Lotus 25, but had a conventional spaceframe chassis instead of the Lotus 25's monocoque chassis. The Lotus 25 was to be run by the Lotus team and the Lotus 24 was intended to be a customer car although Trevor Taylor drove the Lotus 24 in five of the nine World Drivers' Championship races that season. He qualified in tenth place on the grid at Aintree and finished in eighth place in the race, and his only points scoring finish that season was in the Dutch Grand Prix when he finished in second place.

1954 Maserati 250F

I took this photograph at Luffield corner during the Corporate Jets Historic Grand Prix Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's Robin Lodge in the ex-Gilby Engineering Company's 1954 Maserati 250F, with the replacement chassis #2507/2 given to the car after an accident at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in 1954, and it has the 6-cylinder inline 2,491cc Maserati engine.

1949 Guy Arab III

This is a photograph that I took in Heaton Park, Manchester at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in September 1990.

It's not listed in the programme of the event, but it's a 1949 Guy Arab III and was new to Blackburn Transport in August 1949. It remained in service in Blackburn until 1973 when it was sold for preservation.

1956 Cooper T39

This car competed in the Bonhams Drum Brake Sports Cars Race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003.

It's Dutchman Adrian van der Kroft's 1956 Cooper T39 Bobtail with a 1,460cc Coventry Claimax engine, and it was named the 'Bobtail' because of the way the tail of the car was cut off just behind the rear wheels. This was found to make it more aerodynamically effective, but John Cooper tried to hide this fact by claiming it had been shortened so that it would fit inside the works transporter. It had the race number 10 in the programme of the event. The red number 23 car is the 1953 Tojeiro Bristol of Nick Wigley.

1961 Chevrolet Bel Air Station Wagon

This is one of the cars that were on display at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.

It's a 1961 Chevrolet Bel Air Station Wagon and has a 348cu in (5.7 litres) Big-Block V8 engine. The Bel Air was produced from 1950 to 1976 (1981 in Canada) and this is a 5th Generation car that was in production from 1961 to 1964.

 

1929 Napier Bentley

This is a photograph that I took at Lodge Corner at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's 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.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at Club corner during the Corse Clienti Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017 where there were a series of Ferrari Challenge races, and track demonstrations by F1 cars.

This is a 2002 Ferrari F2002, a car that was raced by Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello in the 2002 season and the first four races of the 2003 season, and was powered by the 3,000cc Ferrari V10 Tipo 051 engine. In 2002 Michael Schumacher won the World Drivers' Championship by winning eleven of the seventeen races with Rubens Barrichello winning four of the remaining races. The Ferrari team won the World Constructors' Championship and scored more points than all the rest of the teams put together.

2000 Williams FW22

This is one of the cars that I photographed at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It's the Williams FW22 that was driven for the Williams Team by Ralf Schumacher and Jenson Button (in his first F1 season). The car was designed by a team led by Patrick Head and had a 2,998cc V10 BMW engine. Ralf Schumacher's best results were three third place finishers and he ended up with 24 points and fifth place in the World Drivers' Championship, which was won by Michael Schumacher, while Jenson Button didn't manage any podium finishes and managed 12 points to get eighth place. The Williams Team ended up in third position in the World Constructors' Championship, won by Ferrari.

1953 Jaguar C-Type

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the 1950's Sports Car Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.

It's Paul Burdell in a 1953 Jaguar C-Type with the 6-cylinder inline 3,442cc engine. The registration number is XSV894 and the DVLA say that it hasn't been taxed since May 1992. I've not been able to identify the car in the coventryracers.com website.

1963 Iso Grifo A3C

This was one of the cars entered in the Coys of Kensington Pre 1964 GT Cars race at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in July 2000.

It's the 1963 Iso A3C driven by Jeremy Agace and Ray Bellm in the race. The car was designed by Giotto Bizzarrini who later left Iso and continued producing the car as a Bizzarrini A3C. The programme of the event had this note about the car:

 

‘Monaco based Agace’s Iso, the company’s Turin show car of ’63, benefits from a hulking great 5.3 litre Chevrolet V8 engine, buried as far back as possible in the cockpit bulkhead for optimum weight distribution. Well balanced, and superbly fettled by Paul Lanzante’s équipe, its impressive Historic log includes winning last year’s Spa 6 hours and the GT class of the Paul Ricard 24 hours in ’98. Co-driver Bellm is still seriously quick.’

1934 Morris Fourteen

This is a photograph that I took at a Vintage and Historic Vehicle Display & Run organised by the Saddleworth Museum in June 1988.

A note that I took at the time said that it was a Morris Fourteen, but that was a car that was produced from 1936 to 1939 and had a 1,818cc engine whereas the DVLA record says that this car has a 1,292cc engine. The Morris Ten, however, produced from 1932 to 1948, did have a 1,292cc engine and photographs that I've seen of it look more like the car pictured above.

Austin Sevens

I took this photograph before the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car run in June 1976.

They all appear to be Austin Sevens and the DVLA record says that the nearest one, UT5209, is a 1929 car but I can't identify it in the programme of the event. The next one, PK1518 is a 1928 car with the start number 81 and the programme says this about it:

81   Mr. F. Crabtree, Colne, Lancs.

       1928 Austin Seven Chummy

Off the road for 16 years this car was found in a Huddersfield yard in scrap condition. After a complete rebuild it does 48 miles to the gallon. Who can afford to run anything else in 1976?

1959 Cooper MkIV

This car competed in the Historic Formula Junior Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in September 1992.

It’s the 1950 Cooper Mk IV of David Holland and it was entered in the class for 500cc Formula Three Cars. After the Second World War motor racing in the UK was slow to re-start, partly because of petrol rationing and the cost of running a suitable car. Home-built ‘specials’ powered by 500cc motorcycle were created to provide a reasonably cheap way means of getting involved in the sport. John Cooper and Eric Brandon, with the assistance of John’s father Charles, decided in 1946 to build two cars, and in 1947 in the second post-war race meeting to be held Eric Brandon won the first race to feature 500cc cars. In 1950 this 500cc class of racing was adopted by the FIA as a new Formula 3, and John and Charles Cooper went on to build a series of these 500cc cars, eventually graduating to Formula 2, then Formula 1 culminating in Jack Brabham winning the World Drivers’ Championship in 1959 and 1960 in the 2½ litre Cooper Climax. There's a 500 Owners Association for all 500cc Formula Three enthusiasts, with lots of information about the different marques that took part.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph that I took at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a Ferrari 430 Scuderia with a 4,308cc V8 engine and produced from 2007 to 2009. It was lighter than the standard Ferrari F430, and revised intake and exhaust systems and other engine improvements raised the power output from 490hp to 510hp. Michael Schumacher spent a lot of time testing the 430 Scuderia when it was being developed.

1959 Morris JB Van

This is one of the vehicles that took part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1988.

It's a 1959 Morris JB Van, over 48,000 of which were produced between 1957 and 1961. A note in the programme of the event says this about it:

'8444 UA MORRIS JB VAN, 1959, Entered by P. Smith, Stockport. After spending all its working life in the Leeds area, this vehicle was purchased for preservation in 1980.'

1929 Lovell Elkhart Sprint Special

This is one of the cars that took part in the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy Race for Vintage Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It’s the 1929 Lovell Elkhart Sprint Special of Nick Leston with a 3½ litre engine, and the programme of the event had this note about the car:

 

‘The Lovell Elkhart and the Dodd are both American-type racers with Model A Ford engines, but the former has a pushrod conversion head.’

 

I can’t find out much about the car, but it seems that Nick Leston was still competing with it a couple of years ago.

1959 Lister Jaguar

Andrew Garner drove this car in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's a 1959 Lister Jaguar with the white bodywork and blue stripes of the American Briggs Cunningham team and is probably the second of these Costin bodied cars to be made, chassis BHL123, which went to Briggs Cunningham. Gary Pearson at one point restored the former Briggs Cunningham car, and this car at Silverstone has the same 6-cylinder inline 3,781cc Jaguar XK engine that was fitted to BHL123. The 1959 car was designed by Frank Costin to accommodate a Chevrolet Corvette engine, which most of them did, although a few of the cars used the same Jaguar engine as the earlier Lister 'Knobbly' cars. The red car next to the Lister is Andrew Garner's 2½ litre Cooper T51 which competed in the Maserati UK Race for Pre-1966 Grand Prix and Tasman Cars, The number 69 car appears to be a Jaguar C-Type, but isn't listed in the programme of the event.

1929 Chevrolet International

This is a photograph that I took at the Northern Classic Car Show in a very poorly lit G-Mex Centre in Manchester in August 1994.

It's a 1929 Chevrolet International which should have a 6-cylinder inline 194 cu in (3,179cc) engine. The DVLA record says that it has a 2,630cc engine and has been untaxed since March 2001.

1918 Straker Squire 24/90

This was one of the cars entered in the Cheshire Life Concours d'Elegance at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

It's Adrian Liddell's 1918 Straker Squire 24/90 which the programme of the event says has a 3,921cc engine, though the 24/90 had a 6-cylinder inline 4,962cc engine - the DVLA record also says that it has a 3,921cc engine. The 20/25 had a 3.9 litre engine, so perhaps this car has had a change of engine at some point in its life.

Two Maseratis

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998 celebrated the 50^th anniversary of the circuit, the first race there being the first ever British Grand Prix. To mark the occasion the grid for that first race was reassembled, the majority of the cars being those that actually took part in the 1948 race.

This is a photograph that I took in the paddock of two of the cars. On the left the Maserati 6CM that Duncan Hamilton drove in 1948 and was owned by M Greer in 1998. On the right is the Maserati 4CL that was a reserve car for the 1948 race and would have been driven by Fred Ashmore. In 1998 it was owned by Karl Bloechle.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a car that took part in a Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

It's the 1971 Ferrari 712 Can-Am of Carlos Monteverde, driven at this meeting by David Franklin, and pictured here in the pit garage. The programme of the event had this note about the race by Neil F Murray:

 

'These disc braked cars are well out of VSCC territory, thus making me unqualified to pass comment on them. However, one thing that I can guarantee you is that they will be extremely swift, with David Franklin's Can Am car of nearly 7 litres being near the front, if not out in front.'

 

The car started life in 1970 as a Ferrari 512 S but was converted to 712 specs in 1971, and its chassis number is 1010.

1963 Lotus 22

This car competed in The Lenham Storage Formula Junior Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987.

It's Brian Horwood's 1963 Lotus 22 with what the programme of the event says is a 1,000cc engine. The Lotus 22 was developed from the Lotus 20 and was primarily intended for Formula Junior racing, 77 cars being produced between 1962 and 1965.

2006 Jaguar S-Type

I took these photographs in April 2023 in the grounds of Tameside Hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne.

It's a Jaguar S-Type, a car which was produced from 1999 to 2007.

There was a choice of 4 different V6 engine sizes for the petrol-driven cars....

….and a twin-turbo V6 diesel engine of 2,720cc, as in this car.

1954 Maserati 250F

I took this photograph at Luffield corner during the Corporate Jets Historic Grand Prix Car Race at the Christie’s International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It’s the 1955 Maserati 250F of Jeffrey Pattinson and has a 6-cylinder inline 2,490cc engine. The chassis number is 2508 and it was originally owned and raced by Stirling Moss.

1957 Austin Healey 100/6

This car took part in The HSCC Pre '60 Historic Sports Car Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1986.

It's Peter Riley's 1957 Austin Healey 100/6 with what the programme of the event says was a 2,912cc engine - presumably the one that powered the Austin Healey 3000.  The Austin Healey 100/6 was a replacement for the Austin Healey 100 (or 100/4) and was  produced from 1956 to 1959. It had a six-cylinder inline engine with a capacity of 2,639cc. 

1930 Aston Martin International

I took this photograph on Peter Street, at the junction with Mosley Street, at the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1975.

It’s a 1930 Aston Martin International and the programme of the event has this note about it:

 

‘164   Mr. R.M. Pickard, Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire.

            1930 Aston Martin International.

This car, bought new by John Cadbury, was driven by him in the first R.A.C. Rally held in 1932. Mr. Pickard usually enters his Veteran De Dion Bouton but this year has brought the one he uses for everyday transport as the De Dion is having a major rebuild.’

1933 Alvis Special

This car competed in one of the handicap races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1984.

It's Robert Dean's Alvis Special, based on a 1933 Alvis Speed 20 and the programme of the event says that it had a 2,369cc engine. The Speed 20 was produced from 1932 to 1936 and 1,165 were made in that period.