Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's one of two 1956 Ferrari 860 Monzas that competed in this race, and this is Fritz Grashie's car, chassis number 0602M. I remember seeing photographs of this car, driven by Luigi Musso, and the sister car of Peter Collins (chassis number 0628 - since converted to a 290MM) in the 1956 Mille Miglia. Musso finished in third place and Collins was second to the 290MM of Eugenio Castellotti.

Honda Insight

There didn't seem to be anything unusual about this car when I was walking past it in a car park in Hyde recently, until I saw the word 'Hybrid' on the back.

It's a Honda Insight, and the '61' in the registration number shows it to have been first licenced between 1 Sept 2011 and 29 Feb 2012.

It's a 5 passenger 5 door Second Generation car with a 1.3 litre petrol engine as opposed to the 2 passenger 3 door First Generation car which had a 1 litre engine. This Wikipedia article tells you about the car.

Miller 4WD

I took this photograph of a car that competed in one of the scratch races at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies race meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

It's Dean Butler's 1934 Miller 4-wheel drive which, as far as I can ascertain, took part in the Indianapolis 500 race in that year. It has a 4.2 litre, or 255 cu in, 4-cylinder unsupercharged engine.

Dennis Arrow

This is one of the then current operating PSVs at the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1996.

It's a Nottingham City Transport Dennis Arrow SFD with Northern Counties H44/36F body. The 'N' registration was issued between 1 August 1995 and 31 July 1996 so it was obviously then a fairly new vehicle, but the organisers of the event were obviously expecting a different one as the entry in the programme reads:

Dennis Arrow, N.C.M.E. Body, 1995                                                                 N401 ARA

Entered by     G Clowes, Bulwell, Nottingham

The prototype Dennis Arrow which appeared at the 1995 Bus & Coach show. Vehicle owned

by Nottingham City Transport.

Elva Mk7

Here are two photographs I took of cars which competed in the hour long Historic Motor Racing News Gentlemen Drivers Sports Racing Challenge race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

This is the 1965 Elva Mk7 driven in the race by Marc Devis and Rupert Clevely. The other badge shows that it has a BMW engine which the programme of the event says is 1991cc.

This is another Elva Mk7, the 1963 car of John Wilkes and the programme doesn't specify who the second driver was for this car. It doesn't specify what make of engine the car has either, but it says that its capacity is 1598cc which seems to indicate that it's the Ford twin-cam engine that was fitted to several of these cars.

Kieft Bristol

This car was one of the competitors in the Italy v Rest of the World race for Pre-1959 Drum Brake Sports Cars at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting of August 2001.

It's Michael Erlich's 1953 Kieft Bristol, and according to this article about Cyril Kieft it was one of eight sports cars built in 1953 and 1954, four of which had the Bristol 2 litre power unit and the remaining four had MG engines.

Talbot Lago T23 & Bugatti T35

These cars both competed at the VSCC's SeeRed & Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

Car number 102 is Richard Black's 1939 Talbot Lago T23, a 6-cylinder 4 litre built after Antonio Lago had taken over the Talbot concern. Car number 55 is Bruce Stops' 1928 Bugatti T35. The Bugatti T35 had an 8-cylinder 2 litre engine, but the programme of the event shows Bruce Stops' car to have a 3 litre unit.