1965 Ford Falcon

This is a photograph I took at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.

It’s a 1965 Second Generation Ford Falcon with a 4,733cc (289 cu in) V8 engine.

Waiting to be Unleashed

This is a photograph I took at the Aston Martin Owners Club meeting at Oulton Park last month and it's of the field for the AMOC Intermarque Championship being led round to the rolling start by the BMW course car.

The field is being led down from Hill Top towards the Knickerbrook chicane and you can see a number of Aston Martins, with a sprinkling of Porsches and Ferraris, and a lone Ford Falcon Sprint just coming over Hill Top.

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..

American Fords

I've previously shown photographs of a 1958 Chevrolet Corvette and other Chevrolets which took part in the Independence Day Race at the HSCC Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park on 4th July 1992. Here are photographs of some of the Fords which took part in that race.

This is a 1963 Ford Galaxie, entered and driven in the race by Rob Sherring

This is the 1964 Ford Falcon of Leonidas Voyazides

This is another 1964 Ford Falcon, this time that of David Courtley

Yet another 1964 Ford Falcon, this one belonging to Dennis Clark

The 1965 Ford Shelby Mustang GT350 of Ralph Avis

The programme shows a blue 1969 Shelby Mustang entered in the race by Mark Pollard, but whether this is that car before the race number '16' was applied I don't know.

Chevrolet Corvette

The first Chevrolet Corvette was produced in 1953 and has been produced since then in a variety of guises as detailed in this Wikipedia article.

The first race in the HSCC Summer Race meeting at Oulton Park on 4th July 1992 was entitled the 'Barley Construction Improved Road Sports Championship' and one of the cars entered in the race was this First Generation C1 1958 Chevrolet Corvette.

This car was also entered in a second race later in the day which, in an acknowledgment of it being the fourth of July, was entitled the 'HSCC Independence Day Race'. The programme says 'This invitation race is open to American V8 engined cars built before 1971, and to limited production sports cars using American V8 engines'. The car behind the Corvette was entered in that race and is a 1964 Ford Falcon.

Here's the car during the first race at the Knickerbrook Chicane being driven by Bernie Chodosh and followed by the 1965 Shelby Cobra GT350 of Ralph Avis. The yellow Corvette in the background (the 1969 car of Hal Danby) appears to  be stopped on the road which forms part of the shorter circuit at this point. The international circuit carries on up Lakeside here behind the yellow Corvette and you can see one of the other cars in the race making its way up there to Island Bend.