1954 Frazer Nash Sebring

I took this photograph in one of the car parks at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1975.

It's a 1954 Frazer Nash Sebring only three of which were built and which, as with most of the post-war Frazer Nash cars, has the 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc Bristol engine. This car is chassis 421/200/207 and was driven in the 1955 Le Mans 24 Hour race by Cecil Vard and Dick Odium, but retired from the race with engine problems after 6 hours.

Cooper MG

These three cars are lined up in the paddock outside the pit garages at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

The car furthest away from the camera is a 1954 Frazer Nash Sebring and next to that a Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica, a car that was produced between 1948 and 1953. All the post-war Frazer Nash cars had the 1,971cc straight-6 Bristol engine. The car nearest the camera is a 1952 Cooper T21 MG, chassis #1455, originally built for Horace Porteous of Abergele, and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,466cc MG XPAG engine.

OSCA MT4

This car took part in the Drum Braked Cars class of the 1950s Sports Racing Cars race at the VSCC's Boulogne and Hawthorn Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005.

It's the 1953/58 OSCA MT4 of Tony Bailey, chassis #1126, and was built in 1953 with removable cycle wings so it could be used in both Formula 2 and Sportscar racing. It was rebuilt in its current form in 1959 and apparently had a 1,600cc Alfa Romeo engine fitted, which Historics Auctioneers said was still in the vehicle when it was put up for auction in 2014. The programme for this Oulton Park event, however, says that it has a 1,498cc engine.

Here's Tony Bailey at Britten's Chicane during the race leading the 1954 Frazer Nash Sebring of William Ainscough and the 1957 Lotus Eleven of John Gray.

Frazer Nash

It's always interesting at the historic and classic car meetings to have a walk round the areas set aside for the different owners clubs members' cars. These three photographs are from the parking area of the Frazer Nash Car Club at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995. There's another site I've found here which records Frazer Nash post-war production with details of each vehicle, from where I've got the bits of information underneath each of the photographs.

This is a 1952 Targa Florio, originally owned by Briggs Cunningham, which took part in the 1953 Sebring 12-hour race.

This is a later Targa Florio, a 1953 model, and the first owner was someone called Patel from Pakistan.

This is a 1954 Sebring model, originally owned by a Col. O'Hara Moore which competed in a sports car race at Silverstone in 1954 and in the Dundrod TT of that year.