Friday's Ferrari

Three Ferraris here today, at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

Competing in a round of the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge series are three Ferrari GT cars. All three have 3 litre 12-cylinder engines, and leading is the 1959 Ferrari 250GT LWB Berlinetta TdF of Plinio Haas, chassis number 1401GT. Behind that is the 1954 Ferrari 250 Europa GT Coupe of Erich Traber - being driven, according to the programme of the event, by Christian Traber - and is chassis number 0357GT. Bringing up the rear is the 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta TdF of Thomas Studer, which is chassis number 0909GT.

Lotus Eleven

Two cars photographed at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2008 and both incorrectly listed in the programme of the event.

This one is shown in the programme as Rudolf Ernst's 1952 Lotus XI with a 1460cc engine, presumably the Coventry Climax unit, but this model was made from 1956 to 1958 and was always referred to as a Lotus Eleven. I think it's a 1957 model.

This is another Lotus Eleven, that of Ivan Dutton, but the programme calls it a Lotus 11 and says that it has an 1100cc engine, also presumably the Coventry Climax unit.

Here's Ivan Dutton at Lodge Corner during the Guards Trophy GTSR Race.

Porsche 956

This was one of the large variety of cars displayed on the infield at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993.

It's the Swiss Brun Motorsport Porsche 956 that finished in seventh place in the 1984 Le Mans 24 Hour Race in the hands of Massimo Sigala, Oscar Larrauri and Joël Gouhier.

Porsche 804

This is the 1½ litre flat-8 air cooled engine of the Porsche 804 that Joakim Bonnier drove in the 1962 British Grand Prix at Aintree in July 1962.

Jo Bonnier retired from the race, but his team mate Dan Gurney (in car no. 8 alongside) finished in ninth place.

Cadillac Eldorado

I photographed this car at the Northern Classic Car Show at G-Mex, Manchester in August 1993.

It's a 1953 First Generation Cadillac Eldorado Convertible, 532 of which were produced by General Motors in 1953, all of them convertibles. It had a 331 cu in (or 5.4 litres) OHV V8 engine.

Williams FW08C

The VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003 featured a tribute to Ayrton Senna which included a static display of some of the cars he had driven in his career and a track demonstration.

The 1983 Williams FW08C was the first F1 car that Ayrton Senna drove, in a test at Donington Park in July 1983. The car was driven in the 1983 World Championship season by Keke Rosberg and Jacques Laffite.

Cooper T66

I photographed this car at the VSCC's Boulogne and Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2006, but it's not listed in the programme of the event.

It's a 1963 Cooper T66, and it appears to be the ex-Rob Walker car of Sidney Hoole. The T66 was a slimmer version of the Cooper T60 with revised suspension geometry, but it wasn't a great success on the track.