Maserati 300S

This car competed in the Louis Vuitton 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's a 1955 Maserati 300S, chassis #3057, then owned by Peter Scott and driven in the race by Martin Stretton. The Maserati 300S was powered by a 2,991cc 6-cylinder engine that was based on the 2½ litre unit of the 250F Grand Prix car with a longer stroke, and took part in the World Sportscar Championship between 1955 and 1957. This car was originally owned by Swiss driver Benoit Musy, then after Peter Scott it was part of the collection of American Peter Giddings. It's now owned by Josef Rettenmaier.

On 31 October 2016 I showed a photograph of the car at the 1996 Coys meeting at Silverstone.

Lancia D50

I took this photograph of one of the cars in a display in the Paddock Suite at Donington Park during the SeeRed meeting in September 2006.

Then in the Donington Park Collection, it's a recreation of a 2½ litre Formula One 1955 Lancia D50, one of six cars that were built around 20 years ago using original components that had been stored by Ferrari after the cars (by then designated the Ferrari 801) were dismantled at the end of the 1957 racing season. The car in the Donington Collection was the first of the recreations to be built and it has since been sold by the museum, and as far as I'm aware it's now in the USA and owned by Peter Giddings.

On 17 January 2017 I showed another photograph of the car that I'd taken at this meeting.

Incidentally, I learned recently that the Donington Park Museum closed on 5 November 2018, but what is to happen to the bulk of the exhibits is still uncertain. Some of the cars were on loan to the museum and will have been returned to the owners.