Elva Mk7

This car took part in the Group4 Racing European Sports Prototype Trophy race at the HSCC's Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2004.

It's Clive Wilson's 1964 Elva Mk7 with a 1,598cc engine - the programme of the event doesn't specify the engine maker and Ford, Porsche, BMW and others supplied engines for the Mk7. I would guess that this one is a Ford. There's an Elva Owners Club for people who own any vehicle produced by Elva.

Here's Clive Wilson during the race leading the 1963 Lotus 23B of Chris Jolley and the 1962 Lotus 23B of Kelvin Jones at Foulstons chicane.

On 10 October 2016 I showed photographs of two Elva Mk7s at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in 2005.

Ford Model A

This car is pictured in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the LAC's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in May 1992.

It's not listed in the programme of the event, but it's a 1930 Ford Model A Coupe which the DVLA say has an engine of 3.2 litres. The website of the Model A Ford Club of Great Britain says that it was built in Canada in 1930 and has a 24hp engine.

Maserati T61

This car was one of the contestants in the 'Classic Car' Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

It's the 1960 Maserati T61 'Birdcage' of Hartmut Ibing, and was driven in the race by Peter Hannen. The Maserati T61 had a 2,890cc inline 4-cylinder engine, and this car is chassis #2461 which was acquired when new by Lloyd Casner for his Camoradi team, for whom it won the 1960 Nürburgring 1000 km race in the hands of Stirling Moss and Dan Gurney.

Frazer Nash

These two cars took part in the 2 hour long VSCC Team Relay Race for Pre-war Sports Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

PG 7028 is the 1930 Frazer Nash Interceptor of Richard Parsons. The Interceptor was produced between 1930 and 1932 and was chain driven, with either an Anzani side-valve, or a Meadows overhead-valve engine both of which were 4-cylinder 1,496cc units. This car was previously owned by Vaughan Skirrow, who was Captain of the Frazer Nash Car Club from 1966 to 1969.

This car is the 1928 Frazer Nash Super Sports of Frederic Wakeman. The Super Sports was produced from 1924 to 1929 and was again a chain driven car with either the 1,496cc Anzani engine or a Power-Plus 4-cylinder engine of the same capacity.

The Frazer Nash Car Club caters for all owners of (or anyone with an interest in) Frazer Nash cars and the website has details of the chain driven cars, and all the others produced by Frazer Nash.

Jaguar XK120

I photographed this car in the paddock at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003.

It's a 1952 Jaguar XK120 which the DVLA record says has a 3,442cc engine, presumably the XK6 straight-6 unit that was fitted to these cars when new. Its chassis number is 672427 and it's said to have been fitted at one time with a 4.5 litre and/or 4.2 litre engine, and to have competed in the Carrera Panamericana race in Mexico in the early 1950s (or possibly in the modern revival series started in 1988 - the xkdata.com record is inconclusive). It's also possible, of course, that it's still got this larger engine and the DVLA record is incorrect.

Friday's Ferrari

Here is another of the Ferraris that was on display at the Footman James Classic Car Show at EventCity, Manchester in September 2017.

It's a 3½ litre V8 1999 Ferrari F355 Spider, a car that was produced from 1995 to 1999 when it was superseded by the F360. It was the first Ferrari to take it's model number from the engine capacity in litres (3.5) and the number of valves per cylinder (5) - hence 355. The general numbering system at this time was the capacity in litres plus number of cylinders - as in the 3.4 litre V8 Ferrari 348 that preceded the F355. In the 1950s and 60s the usual numbering convention was the cubic centimetre capacity of one cylinder - so all the V12 3 litre cars were 250, as in 250 GTO, and the 4 cylinder 3 litre cars were 750, as in 750 Monza.

Veritas Meteor Streamliner

This car, although originally built and raced as a Formula 2 car, took part in the Champagne Charles Heidsieck Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993.

It's Gerry Porter's 1949 Veritas Meteor Streamliner, a car originally purchased by Karl Kling who had this streamlined body made by the coachwork company Herbmüller in place of the normal open wheeled body. The earlier Veritas sports cars had used a modified BMW 328 engine, but Veritas designed their own Meteor engine for use in the Formula 2 cars.

On 7 March 2016 I showed photographs of this car that I had taken at the Coys meeting at Silverstone in 1999.