1950 Bentley Mk VI

Here are some photographs I took in January 2020 of a car I saw outside the The Lowry at Salford Quays when I came out of the Lowry Outlet Mall at the other side of the square.

It’s a 1950 Bentley Mk VI which has a 6-cylinder inline 4,257cc engine.

5,208 of these cars were produced between 1946 and 1952.

1993 Rickman

Walking through the back streets of Hyde in May this year I saw this car parked at the side of the road and didn't have a clue what it was. 

It seems it's a 1993 Rickman kit car, produced by Rickman Engineering Limited, a firm originally established by Derek and Don Rickman in 1960 to make motorcycle frames for scrambles and later road racing. For a time they also made complete motorcycles, at first with Royal Enfield engines and later with other powerplants. In 1985 the company began producing a small  four wheel drive kit car using various donor mechanicals, and according to the DVLA record this car has a 1.6 litre engine, possibly a 4-cylinder inline 1,599cc Ford Kent engine.