1951 Guy Arab III

This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1951 Guy Arab III with a Roe C35F body, and was part of the Lancashire United Transport fleet from new until it was withdrawn from service in 1965. It's not listed in the programme of the event, but was at the 1996 Rally when a note in the programme read as follows:

Guy Arab Mk III, Roe Body, 1951                                                                     MTJ 84

Entered by      S.M.Torres, c/o Ebor Trucks, Acaster Malbis, York

Former Operator - L.U.T.  Ex. Lancashire United 440, this vehicle was repainted over the winter and appeared at The Museum of Transport's L.U.T. weekend in May this year.

1957 Vanwall

This car is in the pit lane at Silverstone prior to going out for the qualifying session for the Chopard HGPCA Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting in July 1994.

It's the 1958 Vanwall of Vijay Mallya and was driven in the race by John Harper. The engine for the first Vanwall in 1954 was designed by a Norton engineer, Leo Kuzmicki, and was basically four 498cc Norton motorcycle engines with a common waterjacket and cylinder head. This 2 litre engine was enlarged, first to 2,237cc and then to 2,489cc by 1955. Vijay Mallya's car is chassis VW10, the car with which Stirling Moss won the Dutch Grand Prix and Portugese Grand Prix in the 1958 season when he narrowly lost out to Mike Hawthorn in the race for the World Drivers' Championship title.

 

1908/19 GN/JAP

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the Boulogne Trophy Race for Vintage Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's Richard Scaldwell in the GN/JAP that he had built only some 15 years earlier using a 1919 GN and a 1908 JAP 5,112cc V8 aero engine.

1936 Ford CX

This car was on the stand of the Ford Y & C Model Register at the Northern Classic Car Show in the G-Mex Centre, Manchester in August 1993.

It's a 1936 Ford Model CX, a de-luxe version of the Model C, identifiable by the chrome strips across the radiator. It has the 4-cylinder inline 1,172cc Ford side valve engine that was used by many builders of 1950s 'specials' including the early Lotus cars.

1957 Kurtis KK500G Offenhauser

This car took part in the Flockhart Trophy Race for Pre-1961 Front-Engined Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's the 1957 Kurtis KK500G Offenhauser of Stuart Harper, driven in the race by Frederick Harper, which was shown in the programme of the event as a 4.2 litre Kurtis Indy Roadster. This is the car that Ray Crawford took to the Indianapolis 500 race in 1957 and 1958 as the Meguiar Mirror Glaze Special, but failed both times to qualify for the race. Ray Crawford took part in the Race of Two Worlds round the banked oval at Monza with the car in both 1957 and 1958, one-sided exhibition events that pitted American Indianapolis cars against a motley collection of European cars. The race in both years consisted of three heats with the winner being the best car over the three races. In 1957 Ray Crawford's results in the heats were seventh, fourth and retired, and in 1958 tenth, eighth and fourth.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars I photographed at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a 2014 Ferrari 458 Speciale, a high performance variant of the 458 Italia. It has the 4,497cc version of the F136 V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder. 3,000 of the cars were built between 2013 and 2015.

Mainly Jaguars

I took this photograph at Britten's chicane on the first lap of the AMOC 50s Sports Cars and Verdenstein JEC XK Challenge Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2015.

The leaders have already gone past, but at the head of this group is the Jaguar XK120 of Chris Keith-Lucas followed by the Jaguar XK120 of Darren McWhirter and the Austin Healey 100/4 of Martyn Corfield. The white car is the Jaguar XK120 of Andrew Wenman then the Jaguar XK150 of Andrew Moore and the Jaguar XK140 of Alexis De Beaumont.