1949 Maserati 4CLT

This was one of the competitors in the Pre '52 Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's the 1949 Maserati 4CLT of Dan Margulies which was a development of the pre-War 4CL and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,491cc supercharged engine. The first 4CLT was produced in 1947 and the 1948 variant made its debut at the San Remo Grand Prix, winning the race in the hands of Alberto Ascari. The 4CLT has ever since been known as the 'San Remo'. Dan Margulies' car may be chassis #1604.

1916 American LaFrance

This is one of the cars that turned up at a small motoring meet at the top of Werneth Low in Hyde in July 1991.

It's a 1916 American LaFrance that was owned by local businessman Clive Williams and has a 6-cylinder inline 15 litre engine. Just the month before I had taken a photograph of the car before the start of the Lancashire Automobile club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run.

1928 Bentley 3/4½ litre

This car competed in the Pre-War Team Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017.

It's Clive Morley's 1928 3/4½ litre Bentley, a 3 litre chassis with a 4½ litre (actually 4,398cc) engine.

Here's Clive Morley at Druids Corner during the morning qualifying session.....

.....and at the Britten's chicane during the race. The car behind him is Richard Iliffe's 1934 Riley Kestrel Sports.

McLarens at the Donington Park Museum

The Donington Park Museum which closed three years ago this month had the largest number of exhibits of any motor sport museum including a comprehensive collection of McLarens, and this is a photograph of a few of these cars that I took on a visit there in March 1996.

The nearest car is the McLaren M7A that was used by the team in the 1968 and 1969 seasons, giving McLaren its first Grand Prix win when Bruce McLaren drove it to victory in the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix. Denny Hulme went on to win two further races that season, in Italy and Canada. In 1969 McLaren together with several other teams built 4-wheel drive cars in an attempt to harness the power of the 3 litre Cosworth engine and the next car is the 1969 McLaren M9A 4-wheel drive car. This car appeared in only one race, the British Grand Prix where it was driven by Derek Bell but retired after 5 laps, after which McLaren abandoned the 4-wheel drive experiment as did all the other teams. The third car is the McLaren M14A that the team raced in the 1970 season, a development of the M7A/C, Denny Hulme having 3 third place and 3 fourth place finishes to end up in fourth place in the World Drivers' Championship. The fourth car in the line is a McLaren M8D which was built to contest the 1970 Can-Am season and has a 7.6 litre Chevrolet V8 engine. Denny Hulme won the 1970 Can-Am Series in one of these cars, winning six of the ten races. It was also in one of these cars that Bruce McLaren died in a test session at Goodwood in 1970 when a part of the rear bodywork came adrift causing him to crash.

Friday's Ferrari

This car was in the paddock at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010, but it didn't take part in any of the races at the meeting.

It appears to be a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, but started off life as a 1961 Ferrari 250 GTE 2+2, chassis #2349 with the same Gioacchino Colombo designed 2,953cc V12 engine. It spent its early years in Sweden where it was badly damaged by a fire and was rebuilt in its current form by Neil Twyman. I've seen more recent photographs of the car with a hardtop.

NG Road Racing at Oulton Park

I took these photographs on the finishing straight during the qualifying for the Prostocks Race at the NG Road Racing meeting at Oulton Park in April 2017.

Phil Webber, Suzuki GSXR (no.34) and James McHardy, Suzuki Bandit GSF 600

Andreas Jelden, Yamaha FZ 750

Matthew Baker, Suzuki Bandit 600

John Ward, Suzuki Bandit 600

Matt Orford, Suzuki Bandit 600

Michael Hughes, Suzuki Bandit 599

Sam Woodcock, Suzuki Bandit 600

Glynn Nicholls, Suzuki Bandit 600

Keith Chambers, Suzuki Bandit

William Harrison, Suzuki Bandit 600

Scott Holmes, Suzuki Bandit GSF 600

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.