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Showing posts with label Geraint Owen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geraint Owen. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

1928/30 DH-Riley

This car competed in a ten lap scratch race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.
It's the 1928/30 DH-Riley of Geraint Owen, a 6,124cc engined car about which the programme of the event says: '....Geraint Owen's DH-Riley is powered by another aero engine of the De Havilland Gypsy Variety....'. The car was put up for auction by RM Sotheby's in October 2020.

Wednesday, 17 February 2021

1953 Kurtis 500S

This car competed in the 1950s Sports Racing Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.
It's the 1953 Kurtis 500S of Geraint Owen which is chassis KK45 and has a 331 cu in (5,424cc) Chrysler V8 engine.
Frank Kurtis is best known for the Indianapolis 500 race winners of the 1950s, but he also built the Kurtis roadsters that were basically Indianapolis 500 cars with a two seater body. These were very successful in the USA, particularly on the winding circuits of the West Coast where they frequently beat the more sophisticated imported European cars.