1963 Lancia Appia

This was one of the cars on display at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.

It's a 1963 Lancia Appia Series III and has a 1,090cc V4 engine designed by Vittorio Jano. The Lancia Appia was introduced in 1953 and the Series I and II cars had the same shield-shaped grille of the Lancia Aurelia. The series III car was produced from 1959 to 1963 has the horizontal grille similar to the one first seen on the 1957 Lancia Flaminia, and has the Lancia badge inside a shield in the centre of the grille.

This is the description shown on the windscreen of the car at the Manchester show:

NB: Although this description shows that it's a 1963 car the DVLA record says that the year of manufacture was 1961, but these DVLA records are not always accurate.

1966 Shelby GT 350

This car took part in the HSCC Historic Road Sports race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

It's the 1966 Shelby 350 GT of Kevin Kivlochan and has the 289 cu in Ford Small Block V8 engine, shown as 4,727cc in the programme of the event. A total of 1,373 fastbacks were produced in 1966 and in order to help Shelby sales, Ford, the major shareholder of Hertz, persuaded the rental car giant to purchase 1,000 of these cars. The deal with the Hertz Corporation to offer these cars for rental was that after their rental-car lives were finished they would be returned to Ford, refurbished, and sold to the public as 'GT350H' models. Most Hertz cars were black with gold LeMans stripes and sill stripes, although a few were white with blue stripes. You can see on the sill of Kevin Kivlochan's car just behind the front wheel that it has the GT350H of the ex-Hertz hire cars.

1971 March 711

This car competed in the F.O.R.C.E. Pre-1972 Classic Grand Prix Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's the 1971 March 711 entered for the race by the Hasseroder Team Müller and driven by Peter Müller. The March 711 was designed by Robin Herd and as well as having a works March team cars were sold to private entrants. Like Peter Müller's car, most of the cars had a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine, but March effectively entered two teams in the 1971 races, one using the Cosworth engine and the other the 2,998cc V8 Alfa Romeo T33 engine. With the private entrants there could be as many as six of the March 711 and 701 cars in some of the Grand Prix races that year. The highest placed March driver in the World Drivers' Championship was Ronnie Peterson who finished in second place, and although he didn't manage to win any of the races he had five podium finishes.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph on the last visit I made to the Donington Collection at the Donington Park museum in September 2014. The museum was closed down in November 2018 and all the vehicles on loan were returned to their owners and as far as I'm aware the rest of them were sent for auction.

This is the 1952 Formula 2 Ferrari 500 (chassis #05) with which Alberto Ascari won the 1952 and 1953 World Drivers' Championships. When Alfa Romeo withdrew from racing after the 1951 season and BRM were seemingly unable to turn their car into a serious contender Ferrari were left as the only team capable of contesting World Championship races in 1952 under the 1½ litre supercharged/4½ litre unsupercharged formula. It was decided, therefore, to run the Championship in 1952 (and 1953) for 2 litre Formula 2 cars. Alberto Ascari won six of the eight races in 1952 and five of the nine races in 1953 and his record of 7 consecutive wins spanning the two seasons  was not beaten until Sebastian Vettel won 9 consecutive races in 2013. Ascari's winning run would have been 9 also, but was interrupted by the 1953 Indianapolis 500 mile race which was at that time included in the World Championship programme, although not contested by the European teams.

The car behind the Ferrari 500 is the 1950 Ferrari Thin Wall Special, which I featured on 8 March 2019.

1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk I

I took this photograph at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993.

It's a 1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk I and has the 2,922cc version of the 6-cylinder inline Lagonda engine. The Aston Martin DB2/4 replaced the DB2 and was in production from 1953 to 1957, first with the 2,580cc version of the engine which was replaced by the larger engine in October 1954.

Three Veteran Cars

These cars numbered 1 to 3 are lined up in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester waiting for the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1990.

The Veteran Car Club of Great Britain defines a Veteran car as one built before 1 January 1905, and these three cars fall into that category, being the three oldest cars in the 1990 run. This is what the notes in the programme of the event said about each of the cars:

1.     1898 Clement Voiturette

        Reg: DS 6713   1 cylinder   2.25 hp

        (Louise Williams, Hyde, Cheshire)

This charming little yellow veteran is believed to be one of the oldest

cars regularly run in the north west, but previous outings have not been

without mishap. It broke its crank on the 1987 Manchester to Blackpool 

run and repeated the trick on the following year's London to Brighton.

Last year, however, it completed both the Manchester and Brighton Runs

successfully. Louise was, by the way, the youngest driver to compete in

each Run.

2.     1901 De Dion Bouton Vis-a-Vis

         Reg: AD 229   1 cylinder   4.5 hp

         (John Hopwood, Stockport, Cheshire)

This De Dion spent much of its life in America. It now belongs to Major

Arnold Pownall, who is John Hopwood's father-in-law, and has entered

every Manchester to Blackpool since 1976. John has driven in and finished

the run for the last three years, and is a past winner of the Matthew Brown

Trophy.

3.     1901 De Dion Bouton Tonneau
         Reg: D 235   1 cylinder   8 hp
         (W.A. Pownall, Hazel Grove, Cheshire
The original "Surrey with the fringe on top" - this car has won the concours
in its class on the run ten times. It spent much of its early life in India where
it was owned by a prince. It was also once owned by Sir William Rootes.

1979 Williams FW07

1998 marked the 50th year of racing at the Silverstone circuit and at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting that year there was a display of fifty cars, one for each of those years.

This is the car representing 1979, the Williams FW07, and appears to be chassis FW07/02 from the Williams Grand Prix Collection. The Williams FW07 had the 2,993 V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine, was designed by Patrick Head, Frank Dernie and Neil Oatley, and bears a close resemblance to Colin Chapman's Lotus 79. In spite of the fact that it didn't appear till the fifth race of that season and teething troubles meant that the cars of both Alan Jones and Clay Regazzoni retired in their first two races the FW07 finished in second place in the World Constructors' Championship. Alan Jones won four races and ended the season in third place in the World Drivers' Championship, Clay Regazzoni winnng one race and with a further four podium places finished in fifth place in that Championship. In 1980 Alan Jones won the World Driver's Championship in the FW07 and Carlos Reutemann was in third place, second being Nelson Piquet in the Brabham BT49. Williams won the World Constructors' Championship that year, and again in 1981 though it was Nelson Piquet in his Brabham who claimed the World Drivers' Championship that year, Reutemann and Jones finishing in second and third places.