Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the competitors in the BRDC '60s GT Race at the Christie's Interntional Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's Christopher Mann's 1957 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta Scaglietti TdF and is one of the 14 louvre models. It has the Gioacchino Colombo designed 2,953cc V12 engine and was permitted to use the Tour de France (or TdF) name after winning the 1956 event.

Jaguar D-Type

This car was one of the entries in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's the Jaguar D-Type of Christopher Mann, chassis XKD558, which the programme of the event says was a 1955 model and had a 3,800cc engine, presumably the 3,781cc 6-cylinder inline XK6 engine released in 1958 and which were fitted in some D-Types in place of the original 3,441cc engine. The DVLA record shows the car as a 1956 model and says it now has a 3.4 litre engine. The car was originally supplied to a buyer in Canada. later moving to the USA where it suffered two accidents, being rebuilt after the first one with a 7 litre Ford V8 engine and being virtually written off in the second crash. It was eventually rebuilt and after owners in France, and then the USA again, it found its way to Christopher Mann in the UK.

Here's the car approaching Brooklands corner during a practice session at the Silverstone meeting.

Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM

This car took part in the 'Coys of Kensington GT Race' at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993.

It's a 1953 Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM and was driven in the race at this meeting by its owner, Christopher Mann.

One of these cars was driven to second place in the 1953 Mille Miglia by Juan Manuel Fangio, despite driving most of the return leg from Rome to Brescia with effective steering on only one of the front wheels.