1976 Chevron B37

This car competed in the HSCC Derek Bell Trophy race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

It's Simon Hadfield's 1977 Chevron B37, a Formula 5000 car and the only B37 built. It was made for the Racing Team VDS with a Morand Chevrolet V8 engine and was driven by Peter Gethin and Teddy Pillette in the 1976 season. A note about the car in the Gold Cup programme says this:

'The last F5000 car was a stunner, built for 1976, when Team VDS took one-off to the USA and Australia. Second was best result. Bruce Allison subsequently raced it in the UK's ShellSport Gp8 series, before fellow Aussie Ivan Tighe took it racing and hillclimbing back home. Now winning in Historics with Simon Hadfield.'

The photograph was taken at Lodge Corner.

Friday's Ferrari

This photograph was taken at McLean's Corner during the 1950s Drum-Braked Sports Racing Cars race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's David Cottingham's 1957 Ferrari 500 TRC, chassis #682MDTR which is powered by a 1,984cc twin overhead camshaft 4-cylinder inline engine derived from the one used in the Formula 2 cars of 1952/53. The Ferrari 500 TR of 1956 was the first Ferrari to be labelled 'Testa Rossa', which refers to the red colour of the two camshaft covers, and the 500 TRC was the customer version of that car. Following the Ferrari is the 1959 Elva Mk 5 of David Brock-Jest and further back is Albert Otten's 1952 Allard J2.

I've shown photographs of David Cottingham's car previously, most recently on 1 September 2017.

1934 Ford Hotrod

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

There's nothing about the car in the programme but it's a Ford Hotrod, and presumably a 1934 model judging by the number on the bonnet - I've not been able to find out anything else about it. On the door of the car are a chequered flag and a Finnish flag and the words 'Oscar's Early Ford Autosalvage' and 'Köklax City'. The registration plate JTP•34 appears to be a Swedish plate, and Köklax is the Swedish name for the Kauklahti district of Espoo which is Finland's second largest city and is about 15 km from Helsinki.

1964 Porsche 904/6

This car took part in the 2¼ hour long Gentlemen Drivers Race for Pre 1966 GT Cars and Pre 1963 Sports Cars at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

It's Burkhard von Schenk's 1964 Porsche 904/6 and he shared the driving in this race with Robertino Wild. The 1963 Porsche 904 of 1993 had a 1,966cc flat-4 engine, but the 904/6 had an engine of 1,996cc that was derived from the 911's flat-6 unit.

On 2 May 2015 I showed a photograph of this car that I had taken at Donington Park in 2004.

1903 Gamage Aster 6½hp

This car was amongst a display of veteran and vintage vehicles at the VSCC's Boulogne And Hawthorn Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005, although it wasn't listed as an entrant in the Cheshire Life Concours D'Elegance.

It's a 1903 Gamage Aster 6½hp, a car manufactured by the Parisian firm Lacoste et Battman with an Aster engine and marketed by the London department store A W Gamage Ltd. The car is still registered with the DVLA who say that the engine capacity is 748cc. HY 689 was offered for auction by Bonhams in 2008 and apparently sold for £65,300.

Jaguar XJ13

This car was part of a display by the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

There are several replicas around, but this is the original 1966 Jaguar XJ13, the prototype of a car intended to contest the Le Mans 24 Hour race, and has a 4,991cc V12 engine. By the time the car was ready to be introduced, however, it had already been made obsolete by the Ford GT40 and this and the fact that the regulations were soon to be changed to limit engine capacities to 3 litres meant that it was never actually raced. The car was mothballed until it was brought out in 1971 to publicise the launch of the Series 3 Jaguar E-Type which was powered by Jaguar's first production V12 engine. Jaguar test driver Norman Dewis was taking the car on a high speed run on the MIRA test track when a type burst and the car was severely damaged in the resulting crash, although Norman Dewis luckily escaped unharmed. The car was eventually rebuilt in 1973 and is now part of the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust Collection.

The Jaguar C-Type seen behind the XJ13 is a 1953 car, bought by Italian Mario Tadini and in which he and Pietro Cagnana took part in that year's Mille Miglia race but failed to finish. The car's chassis number is XKC045.

1947 HRG 1500

This car was displayed by H&H Classic Car Auctioneers in the paddock at Donington Park at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting in May 2011.

It's a 1947 HRG 1500 with what the DVLA say is a 1,496cc engine. The HRG 1500 was produced between 1938 and 1956, 112 cars in all, and it was initially powered by a 1½ litre Singer 12 hp SOHC 1,525cc engine. The last 12 examples of the HRG 1500 had the Singer SM 1,497cc engine, so as JM 7075 does not appear to have been one of those last few cars built the engine seems to have been changed at some point for one of the Singer SM units - if the DVLA record is correct. The HRG Association was formed in 1960 for the benefit of HRG Owners. At the H&H car auction in June 2011 this car, chassis W123, apparently sold for £49,500.