Friday's Ferrari

Ferrari uses the Corse Clienti Ferrari Racing Days meetings at various circuits to allow a group of specially selected customers to test limited edition cars developed exclusively for the track and to provide feedback on the performance of the cars to Corse Clienti engineers, thus helping Ferrari to develop its cars for the future. The Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017 included a series of test sessions involving the Ferrari FXX-K, the 'K' referring to the KERS kinetic energy recovery system with which the car is equipped. Here's one of the cars pictured at Club Corner during one of the sessions.

This is Jean Claude Saada from the USA in his Ferrari FXX-K, which is based on the LaFerrari. The car is chassis no. 212002 and has a 6,262cc V12 engine that develops 848 hp, to which the 140kW electric motor adds 188 hp.

Riley RMF

This was one of the participants in a Vintage and Historic Vehicle Display & Run organised by the Saddleworth Museum in June 1988.

It’s a 1950s Riley RM - I'm not a Riley RM expert, but I think it may be an RMF. The DVLA record says that the vehicle details could not be found. If it is an RMF it should have a 4-cylinder inline 2,443cc engine. Production of the Riley RMF ended in 1953 but the number plate this one displays is from 1963.

1931 Invicta Low Chassis S-Type

This car competed in the Pre-War Team Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017.

It's the 1931 Invicta Low Chassis S-Type of Trevor Swete and has a 6-cylinder inline 4,467cc Meadows engine. The Invicta Company was founded by Noel Macklin and Oliver Lyle and produced cars from 1925 to 1935, and the company was wound-up in 1938. It is estimated that around 1,000 Invictas were produced in that time, and Trevor Swete's car is chassis #S79.

1955 Lancia D50

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000 celebrated 50 years of Formula One, the World Drivers' Championship having started in 1950, and the first race of that Championship was run at Silverstone on 13th May of that year. At the July 2000 meeting at Silverstone there was a representative display of cars covering that 50 year period, and the car below was one of those taking part.

It's a re-creation of the Lancia D50 that competed in the Championship in 1954 and 1955 and It has a reproduction chassis with an original offset 2,488cc V8 engine and transmission salvaged from Enzo Ferrari's 'scrapyard'. This car was owned by Robin Lodge, and was entered in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1961 Grand Prix Cars, but Robin Lodge had taken the precaution of also entering his 1959 Ferrari 246 Dino for that race, both numbered 42, in case the Lancia was not allowed to take part because of a doubt about its eligibility. In the end the car was allowed to race and was driven by Robin Lodge - the Ferrari also  took part in the race, renumbered as 54 and was driven by Willie Green.

Citroën 11 Cabriolet

I photographed this car at the Northern Classic Car Show at Belle Vue, Manchester in September 1994.

It's a Citroën 11 CV Cabriolet, a car that was produced from 1934 to 1957 with five different engine sizes during that period. It was succeeded in 1957 by the ID19.

1954 BRM P30

This is a photograph that I took in the Donington Park Museum in October 1989.

It's the 1954 BRM P30, V16 Mk2 No2, alternatively known as V16/05. This car competed in Formula Libre races for a few years, and the only time I saw one in competitive action was in the Formula Libre race at the 1955 Aintree 200 meeting when Peter Collins won the race in this car. The Mk2 is a shortened and lighter version of the original V16 BRM P15 but has the same 1,496cc V16 supercharged engine which was claimed to produce 600bhp at 12,000rpm.

NG Road Racing at Oulton Park

I took this photograph at the Knickerbrook chicane during the '100% Suspension Sound of Thunder, MPH Moto Super Twins & NG Supermono Cup with Neatafan' race at NG Road Racing's meeting at Oulton Park in April 2017.

86 Jon McNally, Ducati Panigale 899

80 Barry Furber, Kawasaki  ZX10

22 Dave Mackay, Ducati 899

115 Kayla Barrington, Triumph Daytona 675

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 488 GTB with the 3,902cc twin turbocharged 32 valve F154 V8 engine which has two overhead camshafts per bank. Manufacture of the 488 started in 2015 and ended in February 2019. Its successor was an updated version of the 488, the Ferrari F8 Tributo.

1950 Daimler CVG6

This is a photograph that I took in September 1988 in Heaton Park, Manchester at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally.

It's a 1950 Daimler CVG6 and the programme of the event had this note about the vehicle:

 

'JND 728 Daimler CVG6, METRO CAMMELL. 1950 Entered by D.Potts, Denton. Manchester. Subject of dry clutch experiments, Manchester Corporation 4127 now has a standard fluid flywheel and pre-selector transmission.'

 

The 53 bus route in Manchester was (and still is) an orbital route round the south of Manchester starting at Cheetham Hill then going via Harpurhey, Gorton, Longsight, Rusholme and Old Trafford to Salford Shopping Centre. The ‘X’ and ‘Old Trafford’ indicate that this would have been a ‘Football Special’ to the Manchester United ground. Six pence in those days (2½p in decimal currency).

1928 Star 12/40

I took this photograph in one of the car parks at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It’s a 1928 Star 12/40 and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,945cc engine. About 2,000 of the 12/25 and 12/40 models with this engine were produced between 1923 and 1928.

1954 Maserati 250F

I never thought I'd call a Maserati 250F ugly, but the anti-roll hoop on Dieter Streve-Mülhens' 1954 car is a bit of a monstrosity.

The car was a contestant in the HGPCA Pre-1960 Grand Prix Cars race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 and has a 6-cylinder inline 2,490cc engine. It was originally chassis 2501 but with the Maserati team's habit of swapping chassis numbers around it was later 2526, then 2523, 2504 and back to 2523 again.

1901 De Dion Bouton 4½hp Voiturette

This was one of the entrants in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1980 and is pictured in a very wet Manchester before the start of the run.

It's the 1901 De Dion Bouton of Major Arnold Pownall and a note in the programme of the event says this about the car:

 

3. Major A.Pownall, Wilmslow, Cheshire

1901 De Dion Bouton 4½ h.p. Voiturette

This single cylinder car was assembled in America and spent its life there until 1972, when it was imported into this country.

 

The DVLA record says that the car is currently taxed and this is due for renewal in May 2026.

Aston Martin DP214 Replica

I took this photograph at the Knickerbrook chicane during the AMOC '50s Sports Cars race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2015.

It's the Aston Martin DP214 replica of Robert Rawe, one of three replicas of the DP214 which had contested the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1963 and 1964 and other long distance sports car races during those years - though one of the cars was destroyed in an accident during practice for the 1964 1000 Kilometres race at the Nürburgring. Robert Rawe's car was based on a 1961 Aston Martin DB4 and  has a 6-cylinder inline 3,760cc engine.

2001 Jaguar Sovereign

This is a car that I photographed in a street in Hyde last month

It's a 2001 Jaguar Sovereign and has a 3,248cc V8 engine

It was in production from 1997 to 2002 alongside the car badged as a Daimler Eight

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars I photographed at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a Ferrari 458 Speciale, a high performance variant of the 458 Italia. It has the 4,497cc version of the F136 V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder. 3,000 of the cars were built between 2013 and 2015.

1955 Jaguar D-Type

This car competed in a  Scratch Race for 1950's Sports/Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's Andrew Pisker's 1955 Jaguar D-Type with the later 3,781cc version of the 6-cylinder inline Jaguar XK engine. The car is chassis XKD544 and has a very interesting history detailed in the coventryracers website. It was driven in the race by Ian Donaldson.

1972 Volvo 144DL

This is a photograph that I took at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.

It’s a 1972 Volvo 144 and a note in the windscreen of the car gives the following information:

Volvo 144D

1972

This car has been owned by Matt since 1993 when he bought it for £250 at the age of 18.

The car was involved in an accident with a lorry 2 years later (no injuries to Matt, and as the policemen at the scene said, “if you had been in anything else you wouldn’t be here”).

Unable to part with the car Matt kept the car covered up until the right person could be found to work on her. That was in 1997, when she was put back on the road.

As time moved on the bodywork started to age badly and for many years the 144 came off the road, that was until Matt was asked to take some pictures of the car for Practical Classics to show the common rust spots. As he photographed his old friend, in her rusty state, he decided that time had come to bring her back to life.

So after some fairly extensive bodywork by Mark Hill of Classic Customs, here she is, not quite finished yet, (but are they ever really finished) but definitely getting there and looking fantastic.

HYB 250K recently won ‘Best Volvo 140 Series’  at the Volvo Enthusiasts Club, 2017 National Gathering.

Owned by Matt Stadden - Hampshire

1934 Alfa Romeo P3

This was one of the competitors in the HGPCA Pre-61 Front Engine Grand Prix Cars race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's Umberto Rossi’s 1934 Alfa Romeo P3 with an 8-cylinder inline 3,165cc engine and is chassis 50006. The P3 was introduced in 1932 with a twin-supercharged 2,654cc straight-8 engine which by 1935 had been enlarged to 3,165cc. By then, with the exception of Tazio Nuvolari's victory in the German Grand Prix that year (with the engine further enlarged to 3,822cc), the car was unable to match the Auto Union and Mercedes-Benz cars.

1934 Wolseley Hornet Special

This car competed in a scratch race and a handicap race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It’s Barry Baxter’s 1934 Wolseley Hornet Special, a version of the Wolseley Hornet Six that was produced from 1932 to 1935. The Wolseley Hornet Special had a 6-cylinder inline engine, originally of 1,271cc with later cars being given the 1,604cc engine of the Wolseley Fourteen. The programme of the event says that Barry Baxter's car has a supercharged 1,604cc engine. There's a Wolseley Hornet Special Club for owners of these cars.

1983 Williams FW08C

This is a photograph that I took at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It’s the 1983 Williams FW08C that was driven in the 1983 World Championship season by Keke Rosberg and Jacques Laffite. It was designed by Frank Dernie and had a 2,993cc Ford Cosworth DFV engine. The were 15 Grand Prix races that season and Keke Rosberg gained the only victory for the team in the Monaco Grand Prix, finishing the season in fifth place in the World Drivers’ Championship with 27 points. Jacques Lafite acquired 11 points to finish in eleventh place in the Championship and McLaren finished in fifth place in the World Constructors’ Championship.

1956 Lotus Eleven

This is a photograph that I took at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

It's the 1956 Lotus Eleven of Neil Davies that competed in the BRDC Historic Sportscar Championship race and which the programme of the event says has a 1,480cc engine. The Lotus Eleven was designed by Colin Chapman and the aerodynamic body by Frank Costin and was intended to compete in the 1,100cc sports car class. A Lotus Eleven with a 1,098cc Coventry Climax engine driven by Reg Bicknell and Peter Jopp finished in seventh place in the 1956 Le Mans 24 Hour Race, winning the 1,100cc class. The Lotus Eleven was raced with various other engine sizes up to 1,500cc, and for the 1957 Le Mans 24 Hour Race Coventry Climax produced the 744cc FWC engine that enabled the Lotus Eleven of Cliff Allison and Keith Hall to win the 750cc class, and also the Index of Performance. 

The number 22 car in the background is Bernard Brock’s Formula Junior 1959 Elva 100.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It’s a Ferrari GTC4Lusso which has the Ferrari F140ED 6,262cc V12 engine and 7-speed dual-clutch transmission. It was introduced in 2016 and has four-wheel drive and four wheel steering. In 2017 the Ferrari GTC4Lusso T was introduced with the same bodywork but has the 3,855cc twin-turbo V8 Ferrari 154 engine. The GTC4Lusso T has the same four-wheel steering as the GTC4Lusso but has rear wheel drive only. Both cars ceased production in 2020.

 

1955 AEC Regent III

I took this photograph at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's a 1955 AEC Regent III, a former Huddersfield Corporation bus, and the programme of the event said this about the vehicle:

 

AEC Regent III, East Lancs L55R Body, 1955                                               JVH 373

Huddersfield Corporation 243

Entered by     E.G.Sykes, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

The last lowbridge bus to operate in the fleet. Recently returned to the rally scene after a fifteen year absence.

1934 MG K3

This car competed in a scratch race and a handicap race  at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.

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.

1955 Mercedes Benz W196

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994 featured a tribute to Juan Manuel Fangio with a display of some of the cars that he drove to win his five World Championships, for two of which, in 1954 and 1955, he was a member of the Mercedes-Benz team.

This is one of the Mercedes-Benz W196 cars that he drove in those two seasons and in which I remember seeing him finish in second place to his team-mate Stirling Moss in the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree. Behind it is the Mercedes-Benz 300SLR with which Stirling Moss and co-driver Denis Jenkinson won the 1955 Mille Miglia - Fangio, driving solo, finished in second place over half an hour behind in second place in an identical car. In the background is an Aston Martin DBR1, chassis DBR1/2, which also formed part of a display in the paddock and on the circuit.

 

1950 Foden PVSC6

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

It’s not listed in the programme of the event but it’s a 1950 Foden PVSC6 with a Lawton C35F body which replaced the original Wadham body in 1954.

(Thanks to Flickr’s Ingy the Wingy for that information)

1975 Triumph 2500S Estate

This is a photograph I took in July 2023 of a car at the back of a garage in Hyde.

There were several cars there in various stages of decay and this one is a 1975 Triumph 2500S Estate. These cars were produced between 1969 and 1977 and had a 6-cylinder inline 2,498cc engine and the DVLA record says that it currently has a SORN.

1953 Cooper Bristol

This was one of the competitors in the race for Pre-1959 Front Engined Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.

It's the 1953 Cooper Bristol T23 (or MkII) of Raymond Wilkinson and is powered by a 1,971cc straight-6 Bristol engine based on the one in the pre-war BMW 328. The original Cooper Bristol was designed as a Formula 2 car, but found itself involved in Grand Prix racing in 1952 and 1953 when the World Championship was run to Formula 2 regulations.

The car on the left is the 1952/57 HWM Jaguar of Kirk Rylands and the car number 18 in the background is the 1936 ERA R14B of Donald Day.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars that were at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a Ferrari 458 Italia which has a 4,497cc V8 Ferrari F136 F engine. It was produced between 2010 and 2015 replacing the Ferrari F430, and was itself eventually replaced by the Ferrari 488.

1965 Trojan 200

This is a photograph that I took at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity, Manchester in September 2018.

It's a 1965 Trojan 200, a Heinkel bubble car built under licence by Trojan. The notes at the side of the car read as follows:

1965 Trojan KMV 106C

Owned by Alan and Mark Fisher from Hull

At a previous classic car exhibition we were approached by Roy Drudge of Lincoln who had previously owned the car and was selling it so that the car could go back on the road. He and his brother had owned the car for the last 32 years and it had been stored in a Nissen hut near Newark for the last 12 years. The car was solid and just needed a couple of patches underneath repairing - the brakes, suspension, lighting and engine were all overhauled and in May 2005 the car passed its MOT and was back on the road. We have decided to leave the bodywork and Interior as it is for now and have protected the body to from getting worse. (This is our next project!!) This car is one of the last 80 Trojans made and some of the parts are different because of this (lights, quarter lights etc). The car was first registered on the 4^th January 1965 stopped the manufacture of bubblecars in 1964 so this one probably sat for a year on a garage forecourt before being sold.

 

In 2015 Mark and Lisa started to plan their wedding and decided to use the Trojan as the Bride’s car. So work started restoring it. Lisa decided on the colour of the car. The wedding took place on the 7^th October 2017 . It was Lisa’s Dad drove the Trojan for the first time.

1958 Lister Jaguar

This car competed in the Historic Car Championship Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1992 and I took the photograph during a practice session.

 It's the 1958 Lister Jaguar of the late Steve O'Rourke, former manager of the Pink Floyd rock band. The car has the 3,781cc version of the 6-cylinder inline Jaguar XK6 engine. Originally a works car, chassis BHL2, it was sold at the end of 1959 and eventually ended up with Mike Wright who competed with the car but wrote it off in a road accident. The remains in time came to John Pearson who used the parts to construct a replica which was sold to Steve O'Rourke in 1989.