Bugattis

There were four Bugattis entered in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1991 and two of them are pictured below in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Run.

This is Mike and Hugh Dickson's 4-cylinder 1,496cc 1926 Bugatti Type 40, chassis number 40652, and the programme of the event said this about it:

123   1929 Bugatti Type 40

          Reg: UF 4524    4 cylinder    1496cc

          (Hugh Dickson, London W14)

Jointly owned by Mike and Hugh Dickson,

it was first entered on the Run in 1987.

This is the cockpit of Barry Parkinson's 4-cylinder 1,496cc 1926 Bugatti Type 37, and the only other information about the car in the programme is that its registration number is DS 6894.

On 29 October 2015 I showed a photograph of this car at the 1986 Run.

Cooper-Alta

I photographed this car at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's David Clewley's 1953 Cooper-Alta, and it took part in the HGPCA Pre-61 Front Engine Grand Prix Cars race.

The car is a Cooper T24, derived from the T20 and T23 cars that used the much taller Bristol engine and so the front air intake is smaller and the nose of the car is lower and extends further forward than the Bristol-engined cars. It has a 1,996cc straight-4 Alta engine and was driven by Stirling Moss in the 1953 season.

CGV

This was one of a group of Edwardian cars in the paddock at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

There was no information about it in the programme of the event, but it's a 1904 CGV and has a 4,944cc engine. The CGV company was formed in 1901 by Fernand Charron, Leonce Giradot & Emile Voigt, and was based in Puteaux to the north-west of Paris.

The cars were gathered in the paddock to take part in a run for Edwardian cars, and the programme said this about that run:

'Edwardian Run

At 9.30am on Saturday up to 15 Edwardian cars (1905-'19)

will leave the paddock on the third 40 mile Grand Prix Run.

The run, organised by Ron Birkett, was set up in 2005 to

mark the centenary of the first GP in Dieppe.'

Friday's Ferrari

This car is taking part in the Cheshire Building Society Allcomers Race at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

It's Neil Corner in his 1960 Ferrari Dino 246 F1 car dropping down into the dip after Lodge Corner and heading towards Deer Leap. The car was originally chassis #0007, but renumbered to #0788F after it was fitted with a 3 litre engine for Tasman races in New Zealand in the hands of Pat Hoare. It was restored to its original condition when Neil Corner obtained the car in 1978, although the programme of this event showed it to have a 2,990cc engine instead of the 2,417cc engine originally fitted.

The 1958 Ferrari Dino 246 F1 was the last front-engined car to win the World Drivers Championship in the hands of Mike Hawthorn. Neil Corner's car was the last such car to win a World Championship race - the 1960 Italian Grand Prix which many of the top teams boycotted because it was run in the combined road and banked oval track at Monza which they considered to be dangerous. The Ferrari wan't the last front-engined car to compete in a World Championship race, however, as the last race of the 1960 season was the United States Grand Prix at Riverside which Enzo Ferrari decided not to contest. The only front-engined cars in that race were the Scarab of Chuck Daigh and the Maserati 250F of Bob Drake.

To be strictly accurate, the last front-engined car to compete in a World Championship race was the Ferguson P99 4-wheel drive car that competed in the 1961 British Grand Prix, but was disqualified for receiving a push-start after the engine had cut out at Bechers Bend.

Surtees TS9B

This is one of the participants in the Grand Prix Masters race at the Silverstone Historic Tribute meeting in June 2004.

It's Peter Austin's 1971 Surtees TS9B, a car raced by the Surtees team in the 1971 and 1972 seasons. It raced in the 1971 season as a TS9 and was uprated to a TS9B for the 1972 season. It's chassis 004 and this oldracingcars.com website shows the racing history of the car from 1971 to 1975.

Bentley 3/8 litre

This car was in a team of Bentleys that took part in the 2 hour long VSCC Pre-War Sports Car Team Relay Race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006.

It's the 1927 Bentley 3/8 litre of Adam Singer, and the original 3 litre Red Label Tourer is described in this history of the car when it was put up for auction in 2003 by H&H Auctioneers. It was apparently bought at that auction for a client by Stanley Mann Racing and was in need of a complete rebuild, during which it was given the 8 litre engine.

Porsche RSR

This car took part in the Gordon Russell Furniture Inter-Marque Championship Race at the Jaguar Drivers' Club's 6th Cheshire Cats' Trophy meeting at Oulton Park in April 1987.

It's Mike Holland's car, listed in the programme of the event simply as a Porsche RSR and having an engine capacity of 3,500cc. It competed in the Porsche team against teams of AC Cobras. Aston Martins, Ferraris and Jaguars.

Here's the car during the race at what was then Foulstons chicane, but is now known as Britten's.