1923 Vauxhall Rowley Special

This car competed in the Boulogne Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005.

It's the 1923 Vauxhall Rowley Special of Geoffrey O’Connell, a car that was built in 1978 with a 14-40 chassis and a 30-98 engine by John Rowley and Julian Ghosh. The car then had the registration number DS 7502 and was driven in VSCC races by Julian Ghosh, who later became President of the VSCC. In the early 1980's the car's chassis was shortened and a different engine fitted, and in the late 1980s the car passed to James Warne then soon afterwards to David Biggins. David Biggins competed with the car for about 15 years and it has had a few different owners since then, including one in Northern Ireland where it acquired a GIG 8664 registration number. The programme of the event says that its engine capacity is 4,224cc, presumably the Vauxhall OE engine.