Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car in one of the pit garages at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's a very convincing looking 1957 Ferrari 250 TR Scaglietti Spyder, but it started off life as a 1961 Ferrari 250 GTE, chassis number 2349GT. The car was severely damaged in a garage fire in Sweden in 1972 and rebuilt in its current form by Neil Twyman.

On 7 November 2014 I showed a photograph that I had taken of this car at Silverstone in July 2000.

Citroën 11 CV

I photographed this car at the Northern Classic Car Show in the G-Mex Centre in Manchester in August 1991.

It's a 1948 Citroën 11 CV, a car that was produced from 1934 to 1957, and has a 1,911cc 4-cylinder inline engine. It was succeeded in 1957 by the ID19. This car is still registered with the DVLA who say that the colour of the vehicle is now black.

Alfa Romeo 158

This car took part in a Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies race meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

It's Carlo Vögele's 1939 1,479cc Alfa Romeo 158, in the pit lane during a practice session, and the programme of the event said this about the car:

'The 158 Alfetta, a voiturette, of Carlo Vögele (14) with its Columbo designed straight-eight engine first appeared in 1938 at the Coppa Ciano where the three cars entered and came first, second and seventh. With only a single stage supercharger, the engine was said to develop 195bhp at 7500rpm. A Formula One Grand Prix car from 1948, in its final form in 1951 the engine had two-stage supercharging, developed something like 400bhp plus after the superchargers had taken some 135bhp, and did 1.6mpg, according to David Hodges. This car had independent suspension all round with trailing links at the front. You may have asked how the Alfa Romeo cars feature in a Ferrari Maserati challenge, well the competition Alfas  were prepared by the Scuderia Ferrari in the 1930s.'

On 22 February 2018 I showed photographs of this car at Silverstone in 1999.

Cooper T51 and ERA Delage

These unlikely looking competitors took part in the 12 Lap Allcomers Race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Trophy Vintage Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

Number 1 is Martin Stretton in his ex-BRP/Yeoman Credit 1960 2,495cc Cooper T51 and 229 is Chris Mayman in his cousin Anthony Mayman's 1927/36 ERA Delage, a 1927 Delage 15 S8 Grand Prix car with a 1,982cc supercharged 1936 ERA engine. The Cooper is passing the ERA Delage going into Lodge Corner.

The Coopers were raced by the British Racing Partnership in 1959, mainly in Formula 2 races with a 1½ litre Borgward engine, then by the Yeoman Credit team in both Formula 1 and some Formula 2 races in the 1960 season with 2½ litre and 1½ litre Coventry Climax engines.

The ERA Delage was created by Rob Walker who replaced the original engine of a 1927 Delage Grand Prix car with an ERA engine.

On 19 December 2016 I showed a photograph of one of the ex-BRP/Yeoman Credit Racing team's Cooper T51s, and on 9 April 2018 photographs of the ERA Delage.

De Tomaso

I took this photograph when I was wandering round the displays of the different car clubs in the paddock at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's the display of the De Tomaso UK Drivers Club, and foremost are a couple of Guaras and two or three Panteras. Hiding away it looks like there's a Mangusta and a Longchamp.

Two Maseratis

These cars both belonged to Burkhard von Schenk and competed in a 10 Lap Scratch Race for 1950s Sports Cars at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

Number 40 is a 1955 Maserati A6GCS which belonged to Maserati's A6 series of cars and was driven in the race by Robertino Wild. The A6GCS was built from 1953 to 1955 to compete in the 2 litre class of the World Sportscar Championship and had a 1,986cc straight-6 engine. Burkhard von Schenk's car is chassis #2098.

Burkhard von Schenk himself drove this car in the Donington Park race, and it's a 1957 Maserati 300S, a car built from 1955 to 1959 to compete in the 3-litre class of the World Sportscar Championship. The 300S had a 2,991cc straight-6 engine and Burkhard von Schenk's car is chassis #3082.

Bristol MW6G

This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1996.

It's a 1967 Bristol MW6G with Eastern Coachworks body that was supplied new to the Western National Omnibus Company of Exeter in February 1967 with fleet number 1436. From 1970 it operated on the company's Royal Blue Services and continued in service with the Western National Omnibus Company until 1977. The MW6G was built with a Gardner diesel engine of either 5-cylinders (5HLW) or 6-cylinders (6HLW) and the DVLA record says that HDV 641E has an 8.4 litre unit, which would seem to indicate the 8,370cc 6-cylinder 6HLW engine. The programme of the event said this about the bus:

Bristol MW6G, ECW C39F, 1967                                                                                   HDV 641E

Royal Blue 1436

Entered by           D Brown, Hatfield, Doncaster

Former Operator - Western National (Royal Blue). Last ever  MW chassis  to be produced.

This vehicle carries an ECW Series II Coach Body. It was new in 1967 to Western National

as a Royal Blue reserve vehicle.