Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars displayed at the 'Ferrari Feature' at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's a Ferrari 330 P2, and this is what the programme of the event said about it:

22    330 P2

Mid-engined V12; 4 litres; 410bhp at 8200rpm; twin ohc

per bank; all round independent suspension by double

wishbones/coil springs. intended for use by the works

team, their first appearance in racing was at Daytona

Continental, February 1965. In line with what had

happened in 1964 a 3.3 litre 275P2 version was also

available. Both models were used to gain the prototype

championships for Ferrari that year.

These Ferraris of David Piper are frequently difficult to identify, but this one seems to be chassis #0824.

The car behind is another of David Piper's cars, a Ferrari 250 LM, which is presumably #8165. 
NB: The Ferrari factory called it the '250 LM', though it should strictly speaking be a '275 LM', having a V12 engine of 3.3 litres. It got the 250 LM label because the first to be produced had a 3 litre engine.

DeSoto Fireflite

This car lined up in the American Car class at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1960 DeSoto Fireflite Sedan, and the programme of the event had this information about it:

DeSoto Fireflite Saloon, 1960

Entered by     B. Wellock, Moston, Manchester                   WYJ 430

One owner vehicle, imported from Colorado in 1994.

Porsche 356A

This car took part in the HSCC Pre '60 Historic Sports Car Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1986.

It's the Porsche 356A of Tony Childs, and is a 1957 car with a 1582cc engine. Behind it is the 1957 Lister Jaguar of Tim Cairns. On 9 March 2016 I showed photographs of a 1958 Porsche 356A at a 2012 meeting at Oulton Park.

Surtees TS9B

This was one of the cars that lined up in the Silverstone International Trophy Race for Pre 1978 Grand Prix Cars at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's Peter Austin's 1972 Surtees TS9B in the Brooke Bond Oxo Team Surtees livery in which it raced in the 1972 season. On 12 May 2015 I showed a photograph of the late John Surtees driving one of the other Surtees TS9B cars at Silverstone in July 2000.

Jaguar XJR-12D

This car competed in the race for Group C/GTP Cars at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's Nick Rini's 7½ litre 1990 Jaguar XJR-12D. The XJR-12D ran in the IMSA series in the USA from 1990 to 1993, taking in the Daytona 24 Hour and the Sebring 12 Hour races. The car is pictured here during the race at Redgate corner.

Talbot Lago T26C

This car took part in the Cheshire Building Society Allcomers race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1982.

It's Chris Mann's 1950 4½ litre Talbot Lago T26C. These cars competed in the World Championship for Drivers in its first two years, 1950 and 1951, but the cars were generally outclassed by the 1½ litre supercharged Alfa Romeos. The blue car behind the Talbot is Hamish Moffatt's 1926 Bugatti T35B.

Here's Chris Mann during the race at Knickerbrook corner.

Lancia Stratos

I photographed this car in the main paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's apparently a Lancia Stratos, although there are plenty of replicas around, notably the ListerBell and Hawk, and the 'F' on the number plate indicates a car that was first registered in 1988/89 whereas the Stratos was only produced between 1973 and 1978. On the other hand an older foreign registered Stratos could have been imported into the UK at a later date and been given an 'F' registration. The names shown at the top of the door are Björn Waldegård and Hans Thorszelius and underneath that and above the number 11 it says 'Rallye Monte-Carlo'. Those two drivers finished second in the Monte Carlo Rally in 1976 in a Lancia Stratos, but the car was number 6 and the livery was different. They were, however, the winning team in the 1975 San Remo Rally in a Lancia Stratos number 11 and with that livery. Björn Waldegård was present at this Silverstone meeting and drove a Lancia Stratos in the Historic Rally Sprint competition, so it could be that car, although the Rally Sprint paddock was on the far side of the circuit alongside the Hangar Straight.

Footnote 9 April 2019: Now I'm able to access the DVLA car number registration details I find that this car is a 1989 Hawk Stratos with a 3 litre engine.