Maserati Tipo 26

This is one of the cars that took part in the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy Race at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1971.

It's the 1930 Maserati Tipo 26M (chassis 2514) of Lord Doune and was driven in the race by Martin Grant Peterkin. The 26M was designed as a single-seater car (the 'M' standing for Monoposto) and thirteen examples were built, with a 2½ litre straight-8 engine. The car above appears to be one of the six which were made into the Tipo 26M Sport for endurance racing, taking part in such races as the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio. A note in the programme about this race at Oulton Park says:

'Lord Doune, from Perthshire, has entered the Bologna challenge, his beautiful 2.5 litre Maserati to be driven by Martin Grant Peterkin on leave from Redford Barracks, Edinburgh.'

Alta F2

This car took part in the HGPCA pre 1961 Front Engined Grand Prix Cars race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2004.

It's the 1952 Alta F2 of Martin Grant-Peterkin, driven in the race by Ian Nuthall. Although there are cosmetic differences it seems to be the same car that I featured on 21 January 2016, showing it at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

Alta F2

This car took part in the Cheshire Building Society's Allcomer Race at the Richard Seaman Memorial trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

It's the 1952 Alta F2 of Martin Grant-Peterkin, and the programme of the event said this about the car:

'Very welcome is Martin Grant-Peterkin's 2-litre Formula 2 Alta, actually the last car built by Geoffrey Taylor, and sold to Peter Whitehead. The original engine went to power a Cooper-Alta and the car went to Australia where a Holden engine was fitted. The car now has a proper Alta engine out of a HWM, which has just had a rebuild.'

I've previously shown photographs of two of the pre-war Altas, on 22 August 2015 and 4 November 2015.