1953 Frazer Nash Targa Florio

This car was in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's a 1953 Frazer Nash Targa Florio, chassis number 421/200/177 with a 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc Bristol engine, which was delivered to its first owner, a J Hood, in June of 1953. The Targa Florio owes its name to the victory by Franco Cortese in the 1951 Targa Florio race in Sicily driving a Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica.

Frazer Nash Targa Florio

This car was in the paddock at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's a 1953 Frazer Nash Targa Florio, chassis number 421/200/177, which was delivered to its first owner, a J Hood, in June of 1953. The Targa Florio owes its name to the victory by Franco Cortese in the 1951 Targa Florio race in Sicily driving a Frazer Nash Le Mans.

Frazer Nash Targa Florio

This car took part in the Twelve Lap 1950s Sports Car Race at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.

It's a 1953 Frazer Nash Targa Florio, driven in this race by the owner Graham Burrows. The car has chassis number 421/200/185 and a Bristol engine and was delivered new in April 1953 to Douglas Reardon-Smith. It was originally painted green. The 1951 Targa Florio race at the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie in Sicily was won by Franco Cortese in a Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica, and thus the next Frazer Nash model was given the name 'Targa Florio'.

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.