1961 Lotus 18

This was one of the competitors in the HGPCA Pre '66 Grand Prix Cars race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003.

It's the 1961 1475cc Lotus 18 of Mark Griffiths. The mid-engined Lotus 18 was a replacement for the front-engined Lotus 16 and the first such car to be built by Lotus, and was used in Formula 1, Formula 2 and Formula Junior racing. Mark Griffith's car is chassis 914 and was built as a Formula 1 car with a 1475cc Coventry Climax FPF engine. It was shown in the programme of the event as a Lotus 18/21, but I understand that the 18/21 was a Lotus 18 that had been rebodied with the streamlined body of a Lotus 21.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at  Luffield Corner during the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's Willie Green in Pete Waterman's 1958 Ferrari 250 TR which has the Gioacchino Colombo designed 2,953cc V12 engine  and is chassis #0742 TR.

1929 Morris Cowley 14/28 Flatnose

I took this photograph on the Exchange Station car park in Manchester of a car about to start the Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1992.

It's a 1929 Morris Cowley 14/28 Flatnose - so called to differentiate it from the more well-known Bullnose. Cowley was a suburb of Oxford where the manufacture of Morris cars started in 1919 and the names 'Cowley' and 'Oxford' were used for a variety of Morris vehicles from that time up until the 1970s. The programme of the event says that it was entered for the Run by Mark Lewis of Crumpsall, Manchester.

1959 Cooper Monaco

This is a photograph that I took in the paddock at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's the 1959 Cooper Monaco that Frank Sytner drove in the BRDC Historic Sportscar Championship race, and the photo was obviously taken early in the day as the race number (1) hadn't yet been painted on the car. The Cooper Monaco, also known as the T49, was powered by engines ranging from 1,100cc to 2,000cc and this one has a 4-cylinder inline 1,960cc Coventry Climax engine. The name 'Monaco' was given to the car to mark Maurice Trintignant's win in the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix in a Cooper Climax T45. It was the successor to the smaller centre-seat Cooper T39 'Bobtail' that the company had produced since 1954. This undated history of the car was produced by william i’anson ltd when the car came up for auction, presumably in 2020.

1933 MG J2

This is a photograph I took at the Northern Classic Car Show at Belle Vue, Manchester in September 1984.

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It's a 1933 MG J2 Sports and has a 4-cylinder inline supercharged 847cc engine. 2083 examples of the J2 were built between 1932 and 1934.

1961 Maserati Tipo 63

This was one of the competitors in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's Byron Sanborn in his 1961 Maserati Tipo 63 setting out from the pit lane during a qualifying session for the race. The Tipo 63 was a rear-engined car based on the Tipo 60 and 61 'Birdcage' Maseratis and fitted with a V12 3-litre engine developed from the 250F V12 2½ litre unit.

1960 Aston Martin DB4

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2002.

It's a 1960 Aston Martin DB4, one of 1,185 that were produced between 1958 and 1963, together with 19 of the DB4GT Zagato models. The body of the DB4 was designed by Carrozzeria Touring of Milan and it had the 6-cylinder inline 3,670cc engine created by Tadek Marek.