1959 Lister Jaguar

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the HSCC Pre ’60 Historic Sports Car Championship race at the HSCC Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987.

It's a 3.8 litre Lister Jaguar driven by Aidan Mills-Thomas and has the 'knobbly' body which featured on the early Lister Jaguars. The car was apparently severely damaged at one point, to the extent that it's registration number (WTM 446) and chassis number (BHL126) were transferred to another Lister Jaguar. This change of identity was subsequently disputed, and the result was an extremely expensive court case in which the judge finally decided that it was not his place to decide such a matter.

Lister Jaguar

This car competed in the JDC Modified Jaguar Challenge and JDC Lister Challenge race at the Jaguar Drivers' Club's Cheshire Cats Trophy meeting at Oulton Park in April 1987.

It's shown in the programme of the event as a 3,781cc Lister Jaguar driven by Aidan Mills-Thomas and has the 'knobbly' body which featured on the 1958 cars.

The car was apparently severely damaged at one point, to the extent that it's registration number (WTM 446) and chassis number (BHL126) were transferred to another Lister Jaguar.

This change of identity was subsequently disputed, and the result was an extremely expensive court case in which the judge finally decided that it was not his place to decide such a matter. The court case is referred to in this description of the other car involved, a 1963 Lister Jaguar GT Prototype.

The photograph below is one that I took of the 1963 Lister Jaguar GT Prototype at Silverstone in 1998.

AC Cobra

On 28 March 2015 I showed a couple of photographs of an AC Cobra competing in the HSCC Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1992. Here's a photograph of the same car at the Aston Martin Owners' Club's Historic Car Races at Oulton Park six years earlier, in September 1986.

It was entered and driven in the HSCC John Lelliott Post-Historic Road Sports Championship race by Aidan Mills-Thomas - who was the entrant and driver in the Oulton Park race six years later. The programme of the event again shows it as having a 4727cc engine, but strangely shows it as a 1967 car and not 1966 as it was said to be in 1992. The 'E' at the end of the registration number indicates that the car was registered between 1 January 1967 and 31 July 1967 (this was the year that the registration year changed from January-December to August-July, so the 'E' registration period only lasted for seven months), but it's possible that the car was actually built in late 1996.

AC Cobra

This car took part in the Barley Construction Improved Road Sports Championship Race at the HSCC Summer Race meeting at Oulton Park in July 1992.

It's a 1966 AC Cobra, which should mean that it's a MkIII, and the programme of the event says that it has a 4727cc engine (289 cu in). It was driven in the race by Aidan Mills-Thomas.

Here's Aidan Mills-Thomas during the race leading the Ford Falcon of Julian Balme and the Lotus Elan S3 of Tim Wright at Foulstons chicane..