1971 Surtees TS9B

This was one of the competitors in the HSCC Pre '71 Single Seater Championship Race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987.

It's the 1971 Surtees TS9B of Brian Tyler that was raced by the Surtees team in the 1971 and 1972 seasons, being uprated from a TS9 to a TS9B before the start of the 1972 season. The Surtees TS9 was powered by the 2,993cc Ford Cosworth DFV V8 engine and was not particularly successful, the best result being Mike Hailwood's second place in the 1972 Italian Grand Prix. 

1959 Cooper T49 Monaco

This car took part in the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's the 1959 Cooper T49 Monaco of John Beasley and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,960cc Coventry Climax engine. The name 'Monaco' was given to the car to mark Maurice Trintignant's win in the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix in a Cooper Climax T45. It was the successor to the smaller centre-seat Cooper T39 'Bobtail' that the company had produced since 1954.

1968 Brabham BT25

This is a car I photographed at the Donington Park Museum on a visit there in October 1989.

It's the Brabham BT25 that competed in the Indianapolis 500 race in 1968 and 1969, and the book 'Great Cars of the Donington Collection' says this about it:

'The Indianapolis BT25

Brabham’s first Monocoque

 The late Peter Revson raced a turquoise-painted 4.2 litre Repco-Brabham at the Indianapolis Raceway Park road course in 1969, and won. It was his first success in the United States Auto Club’s race series, and marked the high-tide of the first monocoque Brabham’s career.

Jack Brabham had raced a rear-engined Cooper-Climax in the Indianapolis ‘500’ in 1961, pioneering the road-racing involvement which culminated in Clark’s win for Lotus in 1965. Indy rules for 1968 demanded that the cars’ fuel tanks be sheathed in metal panelling, and so Ron Tauranac’s practical mind decided that a monocoque should replace his long-standing allegiance to the spaceframe. The special 4.2 litre Repco V8 engine was slung in a tubular spaceframe behind a forward monocoque nacelle, and so the BT25 was born.

Brabham and Jochen Rindt drove the first cars, unsuccessfully, in the 1968 ‘500’, and in 1969 Jack returned with Revson as team-mate in developed BT25s. The American starred in the race, starting in thirty-third position and coming through to fifth by the finish. It was his first Indianapolis and signalled the beginning of his rise to new-found prominence as Can-Am Champion and Formula 1 Grand Prix winner before his tragic death.'

2011 Nissan GT-R GT1

This was one of the exhibits at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at Eventcity in September 2018.

It's a Nissan GT-R GT1, and it appears to be the car driven by Michael Krumm when he won the 2011 FIA GT1 World Championship series. The car has a 5,552cc V8 engine and was acquired by Shaun Lawless from Nismo (Nissan Motor Sports International) when the FIA ended the series in 2012.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a photograph I took at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992 which featured a special display of Ferraris in the paddock numbered 1 to 32, and a page in the programme of the event gave details of each of the cars.

This is a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione, chassis #2735GT, and is the Rob Walker entered car with which Stirling Moss won the 1961 Tourist Trophy race at Goodwood. The car was rebodied by Piero Drogo after competing in the 1962 Tourist Trophy race, but was restored in stages from the 1970s, the complete restoration being finished in 2009. The car on the left is a 1950 Ferrari 166 MM Touring Barchetta that the factory brought up to 195, and later to 212 specifications. Owned by Dudley Mason-Styrron it is chassis #0040M. On the right is a Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta Scaglietti TdF at the time owned by Peter Hannen and is chassis #1353GT.

Jaguar D-Type Replica

I took this photograph at the Jaguar Drivers' Club's Cheshire Cats Trophy Meeting at Oulton Park in April 1987.

It resembles a 1956 Jaguar D-Type, but it's obviously a replica as the shape of the car isn't quite right. I can't find out much about the car, except that the DVLA says it's a Jaguar that was manufactured in 1970 and has a 4,235cc engine - which is the capacity of the 4.2 litre version of the Jaguar XK engine.

1959 Lister Jaguar

John Fitzpatrick drove this car in the Classic Car Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

It's a 1959 Lister Jaguar and is bearing the white bodywork with blue stripes that adorned the second of these Costin bodied cars to be made, chassis BHL123, which went to the American Briggs Cunningham's racing team. Gary Pearson at one point restored the former Briggs Cunningham car, and this car at Silverstone has the same 6-cylinder inline 3,781cc Jaguar XK engine that was fitted to BHL123. The 1959 car was designed by Frank Costin to accommodate a Chevrolet Corvette engine, which most of them did, although a few of the cars used the same Jaguar engine as the earlier Lister 'Knobbly' cars.