1976 Surtees TS19

This car competed in the Grand Prix Masters F1 Cars 1966-1985 race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's Robert Austin's 1976 Surtees TS19 with which Team Surtees competed in F1 racing in 1976, 1977 and 1978. The car was designed by John Surtees and Ken Sears and had a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine. The car did not fare well in any of those seasons, the highest points scorers being Alan Jones in 1976 with 7 points, Vittorio Brambilla in 1977 with 8 points, and Vittorio Brambilla again in 1978 with a solitary point. This website shows the record of each of the TS19s in those years, but I've not been able to ascertain the chassis number of Robert Austin's car - the most likely one is TS19/02. The programme of the event has this to say about Robert Austin:

'The real darkhorse is another former F3 racer in the form of Rob Austin and his ex-Alan Jones Surtees TS19. Austin has yet to have a proper run in the car but showed mighty pace in qualifying at Brands when he planted the car on pole. Unlike Coombs, Austin has his F3 experience from the last decade.'

1914 Hupmobile Model 32 Tourer

I photographed this car at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Boulogne and Hawthorn Trophy race meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005.

It's a 1914 Hupmobile Model 32 Tourer, and looks as if it should be one of the entrants in the Cheshire Life Concours D'Elegance competition, but it isn't listed as such in the programme of the event. The Hupp Motor Company was founded in Detroit in 1909 by Bobby Hupp and Charles Hastings and began production with the Hupp 20 which continued until 1913. In 1912 the Hupp 32 (also known as the Model H) was introduced which, according to the DVLA record for this car, has an engine capacity of 3,200cc (and the DVLA record says that the vehicle is currently still being taxed). There is a Hupmobile Club for owners and enthusiasts.

1931 Maserati Tipo 26M

This car was part of a display of Maserati cars in the Paddock Suite at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 where Maserati was the featured marque.

It's a 1931 Maserati Tipo 26M which was at that time owned by Julian Majzub. The 26M has a supercharged 8-cylinder inline 2,495cc engine and 15 of the cars were produced between 1930 and 1932. This car is chassis #2512 and was originally owned by Umberto Klinger of Ferrera. The car was acquired by John Appleton in 1932, and he shortened the chassis and replaced the Maserati engine with that from a Riley Nine as he considered the car to be under-powered. The two-seater body was replaced in 1935 by a single-seater and the car became known as the Appleton Special. It competed in this guise, with several changes along the way, until the late 1990s when the then owner Julian Majzub restored the car back to something like its original condition.

This excellent website will tell you most things you want to know about Maseratis.

1938 ERF C15

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

It's a 1938 ERF C15, and the programme of the event gave this information about it, although showing the date of the vehicle as 1937:

ERF C15, 1937                                                                                                                             ELT 538
Entered by         R.F. Reyner, Bramhall, Cheshire
The original chassis had a van body for carrying meat from London Docks. New Cab & Body.

More recent photographs, and the DVLA record, show it to now have a blue body.

Friday's Ferrari

This car was in the Ferrari Owners Club's area at the Historic Tribute meeting at Silverstone in June 2004.

It's a Ferrari Enzo, also known as a Ferrari F60, a car that was produced by Ferrari between 2002 and 2004. It was named after Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the company, and has the 5,999cc V12 Tipo F140 engine.

Three Brabhams

I took this photograph at Foulstons chicane on the first lap of the HSCC Classic Racing Cars race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2004.

Leading is Steve Worrad in his 1970 Brabham BT30 followed by the 1965 Brabham BT16 of Matthew Watts and the 1970 BT28 of Edwin Jowsey. The Brabham BT30 was designed to compete in Formula 2 races when the engine was limited to 1,600cc, and Steve Worrad's car is chassis #BT30/25, originally raced by Rolf Stommelen. The BT16 was built for the earlier Formula 2 series when the capacity limit was 1,000cc, though the programme of this event shows Matthew Watts' car to have a capacity of 1,594cc. The Brabham BT28 was designed for Formula 3 racing when it had a 1,000cc limit, but the programme shows the engine of Edwin Jowsey's car to be 1,600cc. This car is possibly chassis #BT28/04. This website lists all the different types of Brabham racing cars. The programme has this to say about the race:

'Another over-flowing grid of 1960s single-seaters will line up for round seven of the HSCC Classic Racing Cars Championship. Cars from Formula 3, Formula 2, Formula Junior and even Formula Ford are all in the field, which should be headed by the 1600cc F2 Brabhams of Edwin Jowsey and Steven Worrad. 

Young Jowsey has had his share of bad luck this season in the BT28, but if that is behind him he will be very tough to beat. Worrad, meanwhile, has a BT30 and will surely take the fight to Jowsey along with championship points leader Matthew Watts (BT16), Jim Gathercole (BT30) and John Moulds (BT23).'

1926 NSU 6/60

This is one of several vehicles, including two Auto Union Grand Prix cars, that Audi took to the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

It's a 1926 NSU 6/60 that was a successful competitor in the 1½ litre class of racing in the 1920s. It has a 6-cylinder inline 1,482cc supercharged engine, and its best result was when it took the first four places in the up to 1½ litre class at the 1926 German Grand Prix at the Avus circuit. Georg Klöbe finished in fifth place overall with Jakob Scholl in seventh place, Franz Islinger eighth, and Josef Müller in tenth place. This is the only one of those cars that has survived, and this photograph was taken on the stretch between the Old Hairpin and McLean's Corner.

On 6 February 2017 I showed two more photographs of the car that I took that day.