1935 Riley Imp

I took this photograph in part of the parking area set aside for various owners clubs at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Boulogne and Hawthorn Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 2006.

Amongst several other Rileys, this is a 1935 Riley Imp built on the Riley Nine chassis and using its 4-cylinder inline 1,087cc engine. The Riley Imp was produced from 1933 to 1935 but production figure records were destroyed during WW2 and it is estimated that about 120-150 cars were produced in those three years.

1984 Renault RE50

I took this photograph on a visit to the Donington Park Museum in 2014.

It's the 1984 Renault RE50 that was driven for the Renault team that season by Patrick Tambay. The car was designed by Bernard Dudot, Michel Tétu and Jean-Claude Migeot and was powered by the 1,492cc Renault EF4 turbocharged V6 engine. Patrick Tambay's best finish was a second place in the French Grand Prix and he finished in eleventh place in the World Drivers' Championship. His team mate Derek Warwick fared slightly better with two second places in the Belgian and British Grands Prix and he ended up in seventh place in the Championship. The Renault team was fifth in the World Constructors' Championship.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the competitors in the Italy v Rest of the World race for Pre 1959 Drum Brake Sports Cars at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It’s Carlos Monteverde’s 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza, chassis 0568M, with the Aurelio Lampredi designed 3,000cc 4-cylinder inline engine and was driven in the race by David Franklin. This car had a very chequered history about which the programme of the event says this:

'Built in 1955, with the three-litre four-cylinder engine - following the rule of thumb that the type number multiplied by the number of pots gives the capacity - this sleek sports-racer has an extraordinary competition history, if not with star drivers.

Originally supplied to French racer François Picard, it finished third in the '56 Agadir Grand Prix in Morocco, and third back on home soil on the speedbowl at Montlhéry, just outside Paris. Thereafter the Italian stallion spent much of its life in Scandinavia, where initially Swedish owner Tore Bjurström used it for the popular local pursuit of ice racing!

From there a short hop to Finland to its next custodian, Carl-Otto Bremer, who returned it to more conventional pastures. After finishing sixth in the '57 Swedish Grand Prix at Kristianstad, won by Jean Behra/Stirling Moss in a Maserati 450S, Bremer confined his major outings to the Helsinki GP thereafter, and the combination won in '59 having finished third the previous year.

Carlos Monteverde acquired  'The Ice Racer' two years ago, and commissioned Tony Merrick to undertake a full mechanical restoration, while leaving the body original. David Franklin has tested the car extensively and says it is beautifully balanced with its five-speed transaxle, but races it for the first time here.'

1976 Hesketh 308C

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the HSCC Derek Bell Trophy race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

It's the 1975 Hesketh308C  of Steve Hartley and has a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine. James Hunt drove the 308C in the latter part of the 1975 season and won his first World Championship race, the 1975 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, in the earlier Hesketh 308B.

1981 Lotus 88B

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in 2000 celebrated 50 years of Formula 1 racing and this is one of the array of cars on display in the paddock covering those 50 years.

It's the controversial 1981 Lotus 88B that never actually started a Grand Prix race. It was created by Colin Chapman and his design team of Tony Rudd, Peter Wright and Martin Ogilvie and effectively had two chassis to take advantage of the downforce produced by ground effects cars, and was powered by the 2,993cc V8 Cosworth DFV engine. The other F1 teams queried the legality of this twin chassis layout and for the first three Grands Prix of the 1981 season the original Lotus 88 passed scrutineering but was then not allowed to take part in the races. Minor changes were made to the car before the British Grand Prix to create the Lotus 88B, but the car was not even allowed to be presented for scrutineering.

1931 Chevrolet Truck

During our holiday in Jersey in May 2013 we visited the Pallot Steam, Motor & General Museum which the advertising brochure says is "An absorbing evocation of times past. There is something to excite the interest of everyone in this fascinating collection of Steam, Motor, Farm and other machinery." Inside you'll find cars, commercial vehicles, bicycles (unicycles, tricycles etc), assorted agricultural implements, steam locomotives, a variety of tractors, and there's even a church organ. This was one of the commercial vehicles on show.

It's a 1931 Chevrolet truck and the wording on the door says that it belonged to A.E Du Feu of St Helier.

1961 Maserati Tipo 63

This car took part in a Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999, and is here seen leaving the pit lane during a morning qualifying session.

It's Belgian Edmond Pery's 1961 Maserati Tipo 63 and has a rear mounted 3 litre V12 engine. The history of the car is confusing (as with many Maseratis) but appears to have been reconstructed by Edmond Pery from chassis 63002 LWB which was originally one of the two Tipo 63s acquired by American Briggs Cunningham.