1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Zagato

This was one of the participants in the Cheshire Life Concours D'Elegance at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005. 

It's Michael Crowley-Milling's 1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Zagato with the 8-cylinder inline 2,336cc engine. It competed in several Grand Prix races in the early 1930s, most notably driven by Tazio Nuvolari when Enzo Ferrari controlled Alfa Romeo's racing Programme. The car has three different chassis numbers and changes to its bodywork to allow it to take part in sports car racing (including the 1932 Mille Miglia), and in that year was given the chassis number 2111044 which it still retains. In 1938 Michael Crowley-Milling persuaded his father to buy the car for him as a 21st birthday present and he retained the car until just before his death in 2012.

Alfa Romeo 8C 2300

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1973.

It's two of Chris Mann's 8C Alfa Romeos, and he drove the 1932 Monza on the left in the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the meeting.

Alfa Romeo 8C 2300

This was in one of the car parks at the VSCC's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's a 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300, with a Vittorio Jano designed 2,336cc straight-8 engine. It was designed as a competition car, but a large number were also built as touring cars.