Guernsey Old Car Club

Yesterday I showed photographs of two Ferraris that I had taken at the Guernsey Classic Vehicle Show that was held at Saumarez Park on 16 June 2019. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Guernsey Old Car Club and Guernsey Post released a set of six stamps to mark the occasion, each stamp depicting a car belonging to one of the members of the club. All six cars depicted were at the Classic Vehicle Show and I took the opportunity to photograph each one.

1898 Delahaye Type 2, a twin-cylinder 2.2 litre 6hp vehicle.

The 1911 Delage Type X has a 2,983cc 4-cylinder inline engine and is one of four cars built by Louis Delage to take part in the 1911 Coupe des Voitures Légère race at Boulogne, one of the cars winning the event.

A 1936 Riley Kestrel 12/4 with a 1,496cc 4-cylinder inline engine based on the Riley 9 unit.

A 1952 Bentley Mk VI with a 4¼ litre 6-cylinder inline engine and was named the 'standard steel sports saloon', being the first Bentley to be given a body at the factory instead of the chassis being sent to a coachbuilder of the customer's choosing.

A 1956 Triumph TR3 with the 1,991cc 4-cylinder inline engine that also powered the Standard Vanguard. From 1959 there was also the option of a 2,138cc engine.

A 1966 Morris Minor Traveller with a 1,098cc 4-cylinder inline engine.

I would have thought that Guernsey Post would have given the owner of each of the cars a set of the stamps but I was told by the wife of the owner of one of the cars that they had not done so, which seems to me to be a little mean of Guernsey Post.

Guernsey Classic Vehicle Club Show 24 June 2012

I recently posted some photographs taken at the Tame Valley Vintage and Classic Car Club show in Ashton-under Lyne. When we were in Guernsey recently our daughter-in-law Anna took us to see the car show organised by the Guernsey Classic Vehicle Club at Saumarez Park. Below are a few of the photographs I took:

An Austin A90 Atlantic from the early 1950s. The Austin Atlantic was designed in the early post-war years specifically to appeal to the North American export market, but it did not sell a great number there. The engine was a modified Austin A70 unit which was later used in the Austin Healey 100.

This is a Moretti, but I don't know which model it is. Moretti was an Italian manufacturer and achieved some competition success with its cars in the 1950s.

Morris Minor convertible

Morris Minor Traveller, with the back half of another Traveller as a trailer. Anna loved this one! It's one of several vehicles which travelled from Jersey to the show.

Another Jersey car, a Standard 10 from the mid to late 1950s

I remember these Austin K8 trucks and vans from my early youth. This one's in the form of a breakdown vehicle.

An AC Cobra Replica - the original car was built in the 1960s and more recently Shelby Automobiles Inc, AC Cars and AC Heritage have produced 'continuation' cars and there are several manufacturers making replica models.