Alfa Romeo 8C Monza

This was one of the competitors in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1952 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's Peter Neumark's 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza, originally built with a 2.3 litre supercharged straight-eight engine, but the programme of the event says that this car has the later 2.6 litre unit that was fitted to the cars from 1933. The car is painted in the French blue racing colours, but I don't know if it's the blue Alfa Romeo 8C driven by French driver Louis Chiron in the 1933 racing season. The car was given the 'Monza' name after its victory in the 10 hour long 1931 Italian Grand Prix at the Monza circuit co-driven by Giuseppe Campari and Tazio Nuvolari.

Alfa Romeo

These two Alfa Romeos competed in the Saloon/Sports Car Challenge race at the HSCC's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

This car's not listed in the programme of the event, but it's an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint from the late 1950s or early 1960s. These cars were produced from 1954 to 1965 and had a 1.3 litre twin-cam straight-4 engine.

This is the 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia of Paul Wallis. The Giulia was produced from 1962 to 1978 with either a 1.3 litre or 1.6 litre straight-4 engine, although the programme gives the engine capacity of this car as 2,000cc.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars taking part in the Ferrari F1 demonstration runs at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's the 1994 Ferrari 412T1 of Roland Hachler, seen here in the pit lane during a warm-up practice session. The Ferrari 412T1 was driven in the 1994 season by Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger, and for two races by Nicola Larini replacing the injured Jean Alesi. It has a 3½ litre V12 engine, and this car is chassis #149.

Lotus 19

I took these photographs at Aintree on practice day for the Aintree 200 meeting in April 1961.

It's a 1960 Lotus 19, called the Monte Carlo as a nod to its perceived close rival the Cooper T49 Monaco. The car was one of a pair entered for the sports car race at this meeting by the UDT Laystall Racing team, to be driven by Stirling Moss and Henry Taylor, and this one is Henry Taylor's car. Both cars were powered by the 2½ litre Coventry Climax FPF engine.

The UDT Laystall team was originally formed as the British Racing Partnership in 1957 by Stirling Moss's father Alfred and his former manager Ken Gregory to run cars for Stirling Moss, outside his other racing commitments, and other up-and-coming drivers. In a sponsorship deal the team was renamed Yeoman Credit Racing for the 1960 season and then UDT Laystall Racing for the next two seasons.

Porsche 906

This car competed in the Coys of Kensington 80th Anniversary Trophy for Pre-1972 Le Mans Cars race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

This is the 1966 Porsche 906, also known as the Carrera 6, of Irvine Laidlaw and was driven in the race by Andrew Kirkaldy. The 906 has a flat-6 1,991cc engine and was introduced by Porsche in 1966 to replace the Porsche 904 which had a flat-4 1,966cc engine. The extra power of the new car was needed to compete with the Ferrari Dino 206 SP in the 2 litre class of racing.

I've shown photographs previously of the Porsche 906 on 24 February 2015, 26 October 2015 and 2 May 2017.

Aston Martin DBR4

I took these photographs at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993 where it competed in the Historic Car Championship Race.

It's Tony Smith's 1959 Aston Martin DBR4, built originally with a 2½ litre engine, but at this time powered by a 2,992cc DB3S unit. The DBR4 competed in World Championship races in 1959 in the hands of Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby, but never achieved a top 3 finish. It's chassis number 4 and was later sold to Hubert Fabri.

I've shown photographs of the Aston Martin DBR4 previously - on 7 October 2015 and 8 March 2017 at the 1959 British Grand Prix, when it was known as the DBR4/250 - and on 7 May 2016 and 2 August 2017 at subsequent historic race meetings.

Panther Cars

Here are three of the Panther cars that I photographed at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2017.

This is a 1976 Panther De Ville, produced from 1974 to 1985 and the body style was inspired by the Bugatti Royale of the late 1920s/early 1930s. There was a choice of two Jaguar engines, the 4.2 litre XJ6 inline-6 engine and the 5.3 litre V12 engine and this car has the larger 5.3 litre unit.

This is a 1972 Panther J72, produced from 1972 to 1981 and styled on the pre-war SS100 cars, later to become Jaguars. This car was offered with a choice of three Jaguar engines, the two used by the Panther De Ville plus the 3.8 litre inline-6 XJ6 unit. The DVLA record says that this car's engine has a capacity of 3,791cc.

This is a 1980 Panther Lima, produced from 1976 to 1982 which used the Vauxhall Viva, and later the Vauxhall Magnum, 2.3 litre inline-4 engine.

There's a Panther Car Club for owners of these vehicles.