Amilcar CO

This car took part in the 'Cars Built before 1935' class in the HGPCA Pre-1961 Grand Prix Cars race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1927 Amilcar CO of Belgian Paul Grant, and has a supercharged 1100cc 6-cylinder inline engine. Manufactured in St Denis, Paris the Amilcar concern was founded in 1921 and the factory closed in 1934 but in that time it built up a short but successful racing history. There's an Amilcar register that was formed in 1955 and you can read about it here.

Bugatti T37

I photographed this car at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's not listed in the programme of the event, but it's the 1929 Bugatti T37 of Paul Grant of Automobiles Vanderveken of Brussels.

Tojeiro Aston Martin

This is a car I photographed at the Donington International Historic Grand Prix meeting at Donington Park in May 2004 organised by the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association.

It's got an Aston Martin badge and looks vaguely like the third and final styling of the DB3S in 1956, but it's actually a Tojeiro Aston Martin. I don't remember seeing a Tojeiro Aston Martin competing in the 1950s and I've not been able to find out much about this car, but it had a Bristol engine in 1955 when first made and sold to Percy Crabb. At some point it ended up in Belgium which is where it may have been fitted with the engine, which is apparently the straight-6 engine used by the Aston Martin DB2/4. At the Donington Park meeting it competed in the 2¼ hour Gentleman Drivers GT and Sports Car Endurance Race driven by Paul Grant with two co-drivers shown in the programme of the event, Christian Mullaert and Mary Grant-Jonkers.