McLaren M1B

This car competed in the HSCC Atlantic Computers Historic GT Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1986.

It's the PAO Preparations Ltd's 1966 McLaren M1B, driven in the race by Jeffrey Johnstone. The programme of the event says that it had a 5 litre engine, and as the M1B was originally designed to accommodate a 5 litre Traco-Oldsmobile V8 that's possibly the engine that powered this car.

I've featured the McLaren M1B several times previously, the last time on 27 June 2017.

Friday's Ferrari

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 featured an extensive display of Ferraris, some of which took part in demonstration runs round the circuit during the two-day meeting. Here is one of the cars that took part in those demonstrations.

It's the 2,992cc flat-12 Ferrari 312 T4 (chassis #040) with which Jody Scheckter, who is driving the car on this demonstration run, won the World Championship in 1979. Jody Scheckter won 3 of the 15 races finishing ahead of his team-mate Gilles Villeneuve, who also won 3 races, in the final table. Alan Jones in the Williams FW07 won 4 races, but the only other points he scored were for a 3rd and a 4th place so he only managed to finish the season in 3rd place in the Championship.

On 15 January 2016 I showed another photograph of this car at the Coys meeting at Silverstone in 2000.

Lagonda 14/60

I took this photograph at the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1986.

It's Ron Taylor's 1927 Lagonda 14/60 Tourer, and the programme of the event said this about it:

'98   1927 Lagonda 14/60 Tourer

         Reg: TR 3270  4 cylinder 12.9 hp

         1954cc

         (Ron Taylor, Clifton, Preston)

Well-known and noteworthy Lagonda, successful in the early 1930s when owned by W H Graham Tom of Bodmin. In three years it won gold, silver and bronze medals in the Lands End Trial, a gold medal in the London to Edinburgh Trial and the premier award in the Lands End to John O'Groats Trial. Tom, in fact, owned the car until 1964 (it was even used as a tractor during the war!) and it underwent a total restoration between 1965 and 1975 finally being painted in Tom's original beige and brown livery. Last year it won the road event in its class on this run.'

There's a Lagonda Club for owners of, or people with an interest in, Lagonda cars.

On 2 August 2016 I showed photographs of several Lagonda cars, including a 14/60 model, that I'd taken at Oulton Park in July 2015.

Wolseley Hornet Special

These two cars took part in the 'up to 3 hours' long Pre-War Sports Car Team Relay Race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

They are both 1934 Wolseley Hornet Specials, the one on the left owned, according to the programme of the event, by J A Seber and driven in the race by Mrs Anne Templeton, and the one on the right owned by T A Lovett and driven by John Seber. The Wolseley Hornet Special was produced from 1932 to 1936 with a straight-6 single overhead camshaft engine of either 1,271cc or 1,604cc, and DSJ 515 has the 1,604cc engine but the programme shows JSV 774 to have a capacity of 1,680cc. There's a Wolseley Register for owners of all Wolseley cars and a Wolseley Hornet Special Club specifically for owners of that model.

ERA R14B

This was one of the competitors in the Historic Trophy Race at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1982.

It's Donald Day's 1937/36 ERA R14B, originally built for pre-war voiturette racing with a supercharged 1½ litre straight-6 engine based on the one that powered the Riley 9, but later changed for a 2 litre supercharged engine. The programme of the event said this about the 11 ERAs that contested this race:

'All being well one foresees a closely fought struggle for the lead in this race between the Hon. Patrick Lindsay's 2 litre ERA Remus, second in the Historic Race at Monaco last month and the first prewar car to finish, Martin Morris's R11B, which he calls Humphrey, Donald Day's R14B, the last B-type ERA made, and R4D, the highly developed ex-Raymond Mays car belonging to Anthony Bamford and driven by Willie Green. Donald is ex-Navy and Willie is fairly outspoken, so what they call their cars is probably not printable.

Sir John Venables-Llewelyn, whose early car R4A also has a 2 litre engine like the above, should go equally well when its engine is properly run in, which it patently wasn't at Donington last month. Patrick Lindsay in  Remus and Martin Morris in Humphrey have each won the Historic Seaman Trophy seven times in the past.

Of the 1½ litre ERAs of Messrs Morris, Marsh, Mann, Classic, Spollon and Tony Stephens, the last three have the possibly doubtful advantage of independent front suspension, not that this is intended as a criticism of the cars the majority of spectators have turned up in today. Bill Morris caused a sensation in the Historic Race at Monaco by stopping in the Casino Square during the race, getting out and borrowing a tool from one of the firemen, mending his car, and then getting in again after starting his engine by swinging the starting handle.'

NB: The 1½ litre cars listed above were respectively R12B, R1B, R9B, R2A, R8C and R12C.

I've previously shown photographs of R14B on 22 May 2016 and 20 September 2016.

Peugeot 202

This vehicle was displayed by one of the many car clubs scattered around the infield at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's a 1949 Peugeot 202, a car produced from 1938 to 1949 with a brief interruption for the latter part of the Second World War. It had a 1,133cc straight-4 engine with a 3 speed gearbox.

Cooper T53

This is a photograph I took at Aintree on the practice day for the Aintree 200 race in April 1961.

It's the 1961 1½ litre Climax-engined Cooper T53, chassis #F1-3-61 entered by the Camoradi team and driven by Masten Gregory who started in 26th place on the grid (not having posted a practice time) but ended the race in 5th place. The Camoradi team was founded by American Lloyd Casner (CAsner MOtor RAcing DIvision) and is probably better known for its efforts in sports car racing, particularly with the Maserati T61 with which Stirling Moss and Dan Gurney won the 1960 Nürburgring 1,000 km race.

On 31 March 2016 I showed a photograph of another Cooper T53 that took part in this race, the Rob Walker car driven by Stirling Moss (chassis #F1-7-61) which only lasted for two laps.