Aston Martin Le Mans

This car was in the Concours line-up at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's the 1933 Aston Martin Le Mans of M.S.Potts, named the 'Le Mans' after the success of the Aston Martin International in finishing in 5th, 11th and 12th positions in the 1931 24 Hour race.

Triumph TR6

Our youngest son David, who lives in New Jersey, sometimes sends me photographs of interesting cars he's spotted. Here's one he sent to me recently of a car he saw on a parking lot close to where he works.

It's a Triumph TR6, which has an inline 6-cylinder engine with a capacity of 2,498cc (or 150 cu in). For the US market the engine was carburetted, but for the British market and the rest of the world it was fitted with fuel injection. The car above is presumably the carburettor version,

Friday's Ferrari

This car is in the pit garage at Donington Park during a practice session at the HGPCA's Donington International Historic Grand Prix meeting in May 2004.

Shown in the programme of the event as a 1952 Ferrari 625, it's Alexander Boswell's car, chassis number 0482, which started off life as a 2 litre Ferrari 500. In 1954 it was given a 2½ litre engine and changed to 625 specifications. It subsequently had a 3 litre 735 sports car engine fitted and was raced in Australia by Peter Whitehead, but is now designated as a 750 GP Monoposto.

Jaguar XJ220S

This car was on display at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's a 1994 Jaguar XJ220S TWR, one of only six cars built for homologation purposes to allow the XJ220C cars of Tom Walkinshaw Racing to compete in the FIA's GT class of motor sport. This car is chassis number 803.

BRM P261

This car competed in the Pre-1966 Allcomers Race at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's Anthony Mayman's 1964 BRM P261, about which the programme of the event said this:

'The Pre-1966 Allcomers Race runs to regulations much the same as for Saturday's post-war event, except that newer cars are admitted this time. Only one entrant has taken advantage of this: Anthony Mayman is fielding his 1964 BRM P261. This Formula One car was later uprated to two-litre specification for racing in the Australasian Tasman series.

The 1961-65 Grand Prix formula saw an almost universal switch from tubular spaceframe chassis construction to aircraft-type monocoque designs, and great strides were also made in tyre technology, all of which should give Mayman an advantage over the older cars.'

The P261 was driven in the 1964 season by Graham Hill and Richie Ginther, Hill winning the Monaco and United States races and finishing in second place in the Drivers' Championship to the Ferrari of John Surtees. Ginther finished in fifth place in the Drivers' Championship and BRM were second to Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship.

BRM fielded the P261 again in the 1965 season, Graham Hill's team-mate now being Jackie Stewart. Hill was again second in the Driver's Championship, this time to Jim Clark's Lotus, and again winning in Monaco and the USA. Jackie Stewart was third in the Drivers' Championship, winning the Italian Grand Prix, and BRM finished second in the Constructors' Championship which was won by Lotus.

Talbot Lago T26C

This was one of the cars entered in the Coys auction which took place during the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

It's obviously a Talbot Lago, but apart from that I can't find any information about this particular car.

Early Talbot Lago sportscars were the T26C Grand Prix cars with a widened body to accommodate two seats, and were fitted with lights and simple motorcycle-style mudguards.

For the 1952 Le Mans 24 hour race, motorcycle-style mudguards were banned and cars had to have all-enveloping bodywork. Some of the T26C Talbot Lagos were rebodied in this style and this is perhaps one of those.

Abarth 124 Spider

This car was on one of the trade displays at the Val Des Terres hillclimb which we watched when we visited Guernsey in July.

It's the new Abarth 124 Spider, the Abarth version of the Fiat 124 Spider which is based on the Mazda MX-5. The car will be on sale in the UK from October 2016.