Lola T70 Spyder

This car took part in the 1960s World Endurance Cars Italy v Rest of the World race at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's Colin Parry-Williams' car, listed in the programme of the event as a 1965 Lola-Chevrolet T70 Spyder with a 5,700cc engine. It appears to be the ex-John Mecom Racing chassis SL70/13, originally fitted with a 4.7 litre Ford V8 engine. The car later passed through various hands before being bought by Colin Parry-Williams in 1981, being restored and fitted with the Chevrolet engine in 1997.

I showed photographs of two other Lola T70 Spyders on 24 April 2016 and 12 March 2017.

OSCA MT4

This car competed in the 1950s Drum-Braked Sports Racing Cars race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's Tony Pickering's 1953 1,495cc straight-4 OSCA MT4, built by the Maserati brothers' new company set up after their split from Adolfo Orsi, to whom they had sold the Maserati company.

Jaguar E-Type

This car took part in the Inter-Marque Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1986.

It's Malcolm Hamilton's 1964 3.8 litre Jaguar E-Type, competing in a team of Jaguar E-Types against teams of Aston Martins and Porsches. This was round eight of the Championship and the programme of the event records that after seven rounds the Jaguar team was in the lead, and Malcolm Hamilton had the second best driver's points total behind one of the Porsche team. The photograph was taken at Lodge Corner.

Friday's Ferrari

Ferrari was the featured car at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 and this is one of the cars featured in the Ferrari display.

It's a 1949 Ferrari 166 chassis #011F that had been raced in the late 1940s and early 1950s in Argentina by Juan Manuel Fangio and José Froilán Gonzáles. It was built with a 1,995cc V12 engine and was originally used in Formula 2 racing, but became eligible for World Championship races when they were contested by 2 litre cars in 1952 and 1953. The 'YPF' decal on the side of the car denotes the Argentinian state energy company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales.

Guy Arab

This bus appeared at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1996.

It's a 1951 Guy Arab Mk III, and the programme of the event said this about the vehicle:

Guy Arab Mk III, Roe Body, 1951                                                                     MTJ 84

Entered by      S.M.Torres, c/o Ebor Trucks, Acaster Malbis, York

Former Operator - L.U.T.  Ex. Lancashire United 440, this vehicle was repainted over the winter and

appeared at The Museum of Transport's L.U.T. weekend in May this year.

Aston Martin DBR4

This car was amongst the competitors in the Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy Race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

It's David Wenman's 1959 Aston Martin DBR4, driven in the race by Barrie Williams. Originally built as a 2½ litre Formula 1 car, the programme of this event showed it to then have an engine capacity of 2,892cc. Four of these cars were built and this one is chassis number 2.

Tatra 603

I took this photograph of a car I spotted down a side-street in Ashton-under-Lyne when I was on my way to work one morning in May 1993.

It's a Tatra 2-603 II, a rear-engined car that was produced by the Czechoslovakian company from 1968 to 1975 and had a 2½ litre air-cooled V8 unit. It's a rare car in this country, and I've not seen one of these models before nor since this one.

On 24 December 2014 I showed a photograph of a Tatra T87 that I'd taken at Silverstone in 1997.