Local Sightings

 Photographs of a couple of cars I spotted round Hyde one day last month.

This is a 2019 Lamborghini Huracán LP640-4 Evo and has a 5,204cc V10 engine.

This is a 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX with a 2,457cc Flat-4 engine.

1946 Invicta Black Prince

This car was one of the entrants in the Cheshire Concours d'Esprit at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.

It's a 1946 Invicta Black Prince, one of only 17 cars produced, and this information sheet in the windscreen tells you all about the car:

£3,000 in 1946 is worth almost £126,500 today.

Friday's Ferrari

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000 celebrated 50 years of the Formula 1 World Championship, which started with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1950. There was a display of a representative selection of Formula 1 cars from those 50 years and here's one which saw action in 1979.

It's the Ferrari 312 T4 with which Jody Scheckter won the World Championship in 1979. Scheckter won three races, the Grands Prix of Belgium, Monaco and Italy, and his team mate Gilles Villeneuve won the South African, United States and United States West races, finishing in second place in the Drivers' Championship. Ferrari, naturally, won the Constructors' Championship. Next to the Ferrari is a 1980 Alfa Romeo 179 and next to that a 1981 Lotus 88B.

AMOC Intermarque Championship

I took these photographs at Britten's chicane on the first lap of the 45 minute long AMOC Intermarque Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017.

29 1994 Porsche 968 CS (James Guess & James Hilliard)

12 1979 Porsche 911 SC (Tim Bates)

17 1993 BMW E36 (Gavin Dunn)

12 1979 Porsche 911 SC (Tim Bates)

17 1993 BMW E36 (Gavin Dunn)

4   1993 Porsche 968 (Peter Mangion)

34 1959 Aston Martin DB4 Lightweight (Martin Melling & Jason Minshaw)

44   1987 Porsche 944 Turbo (Bob Searles & Tony Jardine)

34   1959 Aston Martin DB4 Lightweight (Martin Melling & Jason Minshaw)

44   1987 Porsche 944 Turbo (Bob Searles & Tony Jardine)

144 1994 Porsche 968 CS (Martyn Buckley & Donald Lamb)

68   1992 Porsche 968 CS (Andrew Peck)

144 1994 Porsche 968 CS (Martyn Buckley & Donald Lamb)

68   1992 Porsche 968 CS (Andrew Peck)

96   1972 Aston Martin AMV8 (Simon Watts & Roberto Giordanelli)

48   1979 Triumph TR7 V8 (David Falkingham)

96   1972 Aston Martin AMV8 (Simon Watts & Roberto Giordanelli)

48   1979 Triumph TR7 V8 (David Falkingham)

30 1995 Porsche 968 CS (David Norton & Matthew Dietz)

1935 Maserati 4CS

This car took part in the Redgate Mug Race for Standard & Modified Pre-War Sports-Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's Adam Painter's 1935 Maserati 4CS, chassis #1126, originally with a supercharged 4-cylinder inline 1,088cc engine that was replaced with a 1,496cc engine in 1938. The car was originally owned by Ettore Bianco who finished in 7th, and then 6th in the 1935 and 1936 Mille Miglia races, winning his class on both occasions. It was involved in a fatal accident with the next owner, then acquired and rebuilt in 1937 by Luigi Villoresi and Count Giovanni Lurani's Scuderia Ambrosiana, and in 1939 found a new owner in Singapore. Adam Painter's father, Ken Painter, bought the car in 1969, and it's been with the family ever since.

1951 Leyland Olympic HR40

This is one of the vehicles taking part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's a 1951 Leyland Olympic HR40, one of ten that were bought for the Isle of Man Road Services fleet in 1950/51 and has a Weymann B40F body. It was withdrawn from service in 1973 with the new owners intending to convert it into a motor home, but this never happened and it was stored until 1984 when it was bought by the Merseyside Transport Trust and moved to the UK mainland. As with so many of the vehicles that I've photographed at these Rallies there's no note about it in the programme of the event, but I've found that it was acquired by the Jurby Transport Museum in 2009 and shipped back to the Isle of Man.

1964 Lotus 30

This car competed in the World Sport Car Masters race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's the 1964 Lotus 30 of Matthew Watts, and according to the programme of the event has a 5300cc engine. The Lotus 30 had a backbone chassis similar to that of the Lotus Elan instead of the space frame chassis of Colin Chapman's last sports racing car, the Lotus 19, and was intended to compete in Can AM racing. Lotus engineer and designer Len Terry refused to have anything to do with the car because he considered that the backbone chassis would not give sufficient torsional stiffness, and except for some early encouraging results at the hands of Jim Clark the car wasn't a success. The Lotus 30 was originally built with a Ford 289 cu in (4,727cc) engine.