1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza

This car was driven by Hubert Fabri in two races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005.

It's a 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza and has an 8-cylinder inline  2,557 cc engine. It's registered for road use with the registration number is FYE 7 and is chassis  number 2211130,  which was originally owned and raced by the Hon. Brian Lewis who later became Lord Essendon, and for a long time it was owned by the Hon. Patrick Lindsay.

1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1961.

It's a 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza and has an 8-cylinder inline 2,336cc engine. The registration number is FYE 7, with a chassis  number 2211130  which was originally owned and raced by the Hon. Brian Lewis who later became Lord Essendon. At the time of this race meeting it seems to have been owned by the Hon. Patrick Lindsay who drove his ERA R5B 'Remus' in the Richard Seaman Historic Memoria Trophy race that day. Between the races at the meeting was a parade by some 20 Pre-War drivers including such names as John Bolster, Louis Chiron, S.C.H. Davis, George Eyston and Lord Essendon 'driving cars with which they have been associated'. I don't specifically remember it, but presumably Lord Essendon drove his old Alfa Romeo during this parade.

Deuteranomaly

Deuteranomaly is apparently the most common type of colour blindness. According to Wikipedia: "These individuals have a mutated form of the medium-wavelength (green) pigment. The medium-wavelength pigment is shifted towards the red end of the spectrum resulting in a reduction in sensitivity to the green area of the spectrum." Which means that these people have problems differentiating between red and green. The following photograph was taken at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

Both cars were built (early 1930s and early 1960s) at a time when, by and large, racing cars were painted in their national racing colours. The green car is an Italian (racing colours: red) Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza, and the red car is a British (racing colours: green) Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato.