1951 Jaguar XK120

This car took part in the Aston Martin + Other Pre-War/50's Sports Cars Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's the 1951 Jaguar XK120 of Nicholas Wilkins and has the 6-cylinder inline 3,441cc Jaguar XK engine. The XK120 was produced from 1948 to 1954 and was used for racing and rallying from the start, leading to the Le Mans winning C-Type and D-Types. It was later succeeded by the XK140 and then the XK150.

Lagonda Rapiers

These two cars competed in one of the races at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

They are both Lagonda Rapiers, the one on the left being the 1936 car of Piers Leigh and the one on the right the 1935 car of John Waterson. 470 of these cars were built by between 1934 and 1935 and a further 46 by Rapier Cars who took over the rights to make the Rapier after the Lagonda company failed in 1935. It was originally made with a 4-cylinder inline 1,104cc engine which was later reduced to 1,084cc to allow it to compete in the 1,100cc racing class. The programme of the event says that Piers Leigh's car had a 1,098cc engine and John Waterson's a capacity of 1,450cc.

2000 Lotus 190 Sport Elise

This is a photograph I took in the paddock at Oulton Park at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting in May 2002.

It's the 2000 Lotus 190 Sport Elise of Alistair Mackinnon which competed in the Lotus Road Sport Series race. The car has a 4-cylinder inline 1,796cc Rover engine. The number of the car behind it isn't visible, but it seems to be either the 1998 Lotus Exige of Gavan Kershaw or the similar car of Neil Glover. In the background is the silver 1998 Lotus Elise of John Vickery. 

1933 Aston Martin Le Mans

This was one of the competitors in the Pre-War/50s Sports Car Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's David Taylor's 1933 Aston Martin Le Mans which has a 1,495cc 4-cylinder inline engine. The Aston Martin Le Mans was produced between 1932 and 1933 with either 2 or 4 seat body and 130 cars were built in total.

1959 Cooper Monaco

This is a photograph that I took in the paddock at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1959 Cooper Monaco that Frank Sytner drove in the BRDC Historic Sportscar Championship race, and the photo was obviously taken early in the day as the race number (1) hadn't yet been painted on the car. The Cooper Monaco, also known as the T49, was powered by engines ranging from 1,100cc to 2,000cc and this one has a 4-cylinder inline 1,960cc Coventry Climax engine. The name 'Monaco' was given to the car to mark Maurice Trintignant's win in the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix in a Cooper Climax T45. It was the successor to the smaller centre-seat Cooper T39 'Bobtail' that the company had produced since 1954. This undated history of the car was produced by william i’anson ltd when the car came up for auction, presumably in 2020.

1960 Aston Martin DB4

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's a 1960 Aston Martin DB4, one of 1,185 that were produced between 1958 and 1963, together with 19 of the DB4GT Zagato models. The body of the DB4 was designed by Carrozzeria Touring of Milan and it had the 6-cylinder inline 3,670cc engine created by Tadek Marek.

1954 Maserati 250F

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1954 Maserati 250F of Dieter Streve-Mülhens, chassis 2501/2523 (they had a habit of swapping the Maserati 250F chassis numbers about). Behind that car is the number 27 1954 Maserati A6GCM of David Bennett which is chassis 2044, and the number 5 sports car is Mark Clubb's 1959 Cooper T49 Monaco, chassis CM/6/59. The number 61 on the left of the photograph is the 1969 Lotus 61 of Dieter Streve-Mülhens.

1930 Morgan Super Aero JAP

This was one of the cars taking part in the  Morgan Three Wheelers race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's the 1930 Morgan Super Aero of Barry and Penny Davison with a V-twin 1,098cc JAP 10/40 engine.

1958 Cooper T45

This car took part in the HGPCA Pre-1966 Grand Prix Cars race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1958 Cooper T45 of Brian Jolliffe and has the 2 litre Coventry Climax 4-cylinder inline engine. The Cooper T45's first F1 win was at the Monaco Grand Prix in 1958 with Rob Walker's 2.2 litre car driven by Frenchman Maurice Trintignant - this followed the win by Stirling Moss in Rob Walker's Cooper T43 in Argentina the same year.

1935 Aston Martin Series 3

This was one of the competitors in the Pre-War Feltham Aston Martin Sports Cars race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's Simon Allen's 1935 Aston Martin Third Series, originally built as a 4 seater Mark 2 but has been rebuilt as a copy of an Ulster race car. It would have originally had a 1½ litre engine, but the programme of the event and the DVLA record say that it now has a 2 litre engine.

1955 Maserati 300S

This was one of the competitors in the Coys Race for Pre-1959 Drum Brake Sports Cars at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1955 Maserati 300S of Rodney Smith, chassis #3060, and was driven in the race by Mark Gillies. The Maserati 300S has a 6-cylinder engine based on the 2½ litre unit of the 250F Grand Prix car with a lengthened stroke to bring the capacity up to 2,991cc. The car's first major race was the 1956 Sebring 12 Hour race where it was driven by Cesare Perdisa and Carlos Menditéguy, but Menditéguy crashed and overturned the car during the race. The car was then badly damaged when the trailer retrieving it was hit by a truck. The rebuild wasn't completed till 1957, but on its return to Sebring in 1959 the car was once again badly damaged in Edwin Lawrence's fatal accident during practice. It was rebuilt yet again with a fibreglass body, and later a 3.9 litre Chevrolet V8 engine was installed.  The car was fully restored to its current form in the early 1990s. The car number 18 in the background is the 1958 Cooper T45 of Anthony Ditheridge which took part in the HGPCA Pre-1966 Grand Prix Cars race.

1951 Jaguar XK120

This car took part in the Aston Martin + Other Pre-War/50's Sports Cars Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's the 1951 Jaguar XK120 of Nicholas Wilkins and has the 6-cylinder inline 3,441cc Jaguar XK engine. The XK120 was produced from 1948 to 1954 and was used for racing and rallying from the start, leading to the Le Mans winning C-Type and D-Types. It was later succeeded by the XK140 and then the XK150.

 

1952 Jaguar C-Type

This car is pictured just after Lodge Corner in the Coys Race for Pre-1959 Drum Brake Sports Cars at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's David Wenman in his 1952 Jaguar C-Type which is chassis XKC008 and has the 6-cylinder inline 3,442cc Jaguar XK6 engine that powered all the C-Types, and was originally owned by Leslie Johnson who drove it in the 1953 Mille Miglia but failed to finish the race. Peter Walker and Peter Whitehead won the 1951 Le Mans 24 Hour Race in a Jaguar C-Type, and Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt repeated that feat in 1953.

1956 Triumph TR3

These two cars competed in the AMOC Lighthouse Anglo-American Thoroughbred Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

Both are 1956 models, number 34 being the car of Charles Gillett and number 37 that of Justin Maeers. The Triumph TR3 was a successor to the TR2, both using a tuned version of the 4-cylinder inline 1991cc Standard Vanguard engine but that in the TR3 was a slightly more powerful unit. These two cars, though, have the 2,138cc engine that only became available with later versions of the TR3 in 1959.

1955 Maserati 300S

This was one of the competitors in the Coys Race for Pre-1959 Drum Brake Sports Cars at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1955 Maserati 300S of Rodney Smith, chassis #3060, and was driven in the race by Mark Gillies. The Maserati 300S has a 6-cylinder engine based on the 2½ litre unit of the 250F Grand Prix car with a lengthened stroke to bring the capacity up to 2,991cc. The car's first major race was the 1956 Sebring 12 Hour race where it was driven by Cesare Perdisa and Carlos Menditéguy, but Menditéguy crashed and overturned the car during the race. The car was then badly damaged when the trailer retrieving it was hit by a truck. The rebuild wasn't completed till 1957, but on its return to Sebring in 1959 the car was once again badly damaged in Edwin Lawrence's fatal accident during practice. It was rebuilt yet again with a fibreglass body, and later a 3.9 litre Chevrolet V8 engine was installed.  The car was fully restored to its current form in the early 1990s.

Formula Junior Racing

I took this photograph during the AMOC Miller Oils Historic Formula Junior Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

The leading car here at Lodge Corner is the 1963 (though it says 1959 in the programme) Lola MK5A of Robin Longden who is leading Mark Woodhouse in his 1961 Lotus 20, both cars appearing to have the 1,098cc Ford Cosworth engine. Robin Longden's car, chassis #BRJ-55, was originally owned by Eric Offenstadt, and the history of the car is shown in this Lola Heritage article. I can't find any information about the history of the Lotus.

1971 Surtees TS9B

This is one of three Surtees TS9's that competed in the Force Pre-1972 Grand Prix Car Race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1971 Surtees TS9B of Peter Austin, chassis TS9/004, that was raced by the Surtees team in the 1971 and 1972 seasons, being uprated from a TS9 to a TS9B before the start of the 1972 season. The Surtees TS9 was powered by the 2,993cc Ford Cosworth DFV V8 engine and was not particularly successful, the best result being Mike Hailwood's second place in the 1972 Italian Grand Prix. 

1959 Elva 100 FJ

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the AMOC Miller Oils Historic Formula Junior Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's Bernard Brock in his 1959 Elva 100 FJ which has a 1,098cc BMC A series engine. Initially successful, the front-engined Lola was overshadowed by the Cooper and Lotus rear-engined cars in the 1960 season.

1961 Cooper T53

This was one of the competitors in the HGPCA Pre-1966 Grand Prix Cars Race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's a 1961 Cooper T53 with a 1½ litre engine and was driven in the race by Ted Rollason. The T53 was a 'lowline' version of the Cooper T51 and this car, chassis F1-1-61, was driven for the Yeoman Credit Racing Team in 1961 by John Surtees. At the end of that season it was taken to South Africa for Tony Maggs to compete in the South African Springbok series after which it was sold to a Rhodesian driver, a Mr Kilner and was fitted with an Alfa Romeo engine in place of its Coventry Climax unit. It was raced in South Africa and Rhodesia until 1967 when it was involved in an accident at Kyalami when being driven by another Rhodesian driver, John Coetzer, and was totally wrecked. The remains were some years later acquired by John Harper who fabricated a new frame and rebuilt the car. Ted Rollason bought the car in 2001 and competed with it that year and the following year, eventually selling the car in 2014 to German driver Wulf Goetze who continued to race the car after an intensive overhaul.

1960 Lotus 15

This was one of the competitors in the BRDC Historic Sportscar Championship race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1960 Lotus 15 of David Heynes and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,960cc Coventry Climax FPF engine. The car was a successor to the Lotus Mk X, developed from the Lotus Eleven but designed to accommodate engines from 1½ to 2½ litres. It was intended for International Sports Car racing, but though cars were entered in the 1958 and 1959 Le Mans 24 Hour race none of them managed to finish.