1966 Jaguar XKSS Replica

I photographed this car at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

I've seen a photograph of the car that says it is one of the early Lynx replicas, but I can find no other information to verify this. The DVLA records say that it is a 1966 car, first registered (presumably in its converted form) in 1997, with a 3,781cc engine. The original XKSS cars were produced in 1957 when Jaguar converted 25 unsold D-Types into road cars, although 9 of these cars were destroyed in a fire at the Browns Lane factory before they left the production line.

Lister Jaguar

This car competed in the JDC Modified Jaguar Challenge and JDC Lister Challenge race at the Jaguar Drivers' Club's Cheshire Cats Trophy meeting at Oulton Park in April 1987.

It's shown in the programme of the event as a 3,781cc Lister Jaguar driven by Aidan Mills-Thomas and has the 'knobbly' body which featured on the 1958 cars.

The car was apparently severely damaged at one point, to the extent that it's registration number (WTM 446) and chassis number (BHL126) were transferred to another Lister Jaguar.

This change of identity was subsequently disputed, and the result was an extremely expensive court case in which the judge finally decided that it was not his place to decide such a matter. The court case is referred to in this description of the other car involved, a 1963 Lister Jaguar GT Prototype.

The photograph below is one that I took of the 1963 Lister Jaguar GT Prototype at Silverstone in 1998.

Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car in the paddock at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in June 2008.

It's a 1970 Ferrari 365 GTB4 Daytona and is chassis #13607. The 365 GTB4 replaced the 275 GTB4 with the Gioacchino Colombo designed V12 engine from that car bored out to 4,390cc.

1924 Thornycroft BX Tipper

This was one of the participants in the Greater Manchester Historic Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's not listed in the programme of the event, but it's a 1924 Thornycroft BX Tipper, and an entry in the 1995 programme of the event gives this information:

Thornycroft BX Tipper, 1924                                                                                       TC9816

Entered by          W.H Bowker Limited, Bamber Bridge, Preston
This vehicle was fitted with hydraulic tipping gear and was originally fitted with solid tyres and converted to pneumatic tyres during the 1930's. Withdrawn from service around 1960 and was restored in 1992 and is now finished in the correct period livery of William Bowker Ltd.

1938 Alta Voiturette

This car took part in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1952 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's the 1938 Alta of Martin Redmond, built by Geoffrey Taylor's Alta Car and Engineering Company for voiturette racing in the late 1930s, and was driven at Brooklands by the original owner, Hugh Curling Hunter. The car has a 2 litre engine and is chassis #62IS.

1939 Talbot Lago T23

This car took part in two races, including the 2 hour long VSCC Team Relay Race for Pre-War Sports Cars, at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's the 1939 Talbot Lago T23 of Richard Black, which has a 6-cylinder inline 3,996cc engine designed by Walter Becchia after Antonio Lago had acquired the Talbot Company in 1936 when it had gone into receivership.

1958 BRM P25

This is one of two BRM P25's that competed in the Historic Car Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners' Club's meeting at Oulton Park in September 1986.

It's the 1958 BRM P25 of the Hon. Amschel Rothschild and is chassis #P258, the car which Joakim Bonnier drove in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix to give BRM their first win in a World Championship race, and the only one by a P25.

The BRM P25 has a 4-cylinder inline 2,491cc engine, and here it's being given a careful examination before its race.

Here's the car at Lodge Corner during the race.

On 4 June 2014 I showed photographs of the other BRM P25 at this meeting, John Harper's car.