Friday's Ferrari

 

I took this photograph during the Aston Martin GT Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017.

It's a 2009 Ferrari F430 Challenge and was driven in the 50 minute long race by Richard Cook and Harvey Stanley. The Ferrari F430 Challenge, which has a 4,308cc V8 engine, replaced the 360 Challenge and was produced from 2007 to 2010, being succeeded by the 458 Challenge.

1962 Lotus 24

This is a photograph that I took at Waterway Corner at Aintree on the Friday practice day for the British Grand Prix in July 1962.

It's Trevor Taylor in his Lotus 24 which was powered by the same 1,496cc Coventry Climax FWMV engine as the Lotus 25, but had a conventional spaceframe chassis instead of the Lotus 25's monocoque chassis. The Lotus 25 was to be run by the Lotus team and the Lotus 24 was intended to be a customer car although Trevor Taylor drove the Lotus 24 in five of the nine World Drivers' Championship races that season. He qualified in tenth place on the grid at Aintree and finished in eighth place in the race, and his only points scoring finish that season was in the Dutch Grand Prix when he finished in second place.

1954 Maserati 250F

I took this photograph at Luffield corner during the Corporate Jets Historic Grand Prix Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's Robin Lodge in the ex-Gilby Engineering Company's 1954 Maserati 250F, with the replacement chassis #2507/2 given to the car after an accident at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in 1954, and it has the 6-cylinder inline 2,491cc Maserati engine.

1949 Guy Arab III

This is a photograph that I took in Heaton Park, Manchester at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in September 1990.

It's not listed in the programme of the event, but it's a 1949 Guy Arab III and was new to Blackburn Transport in August 1949. It remained in service in Blackburn until 1973 when it was sold for preservation.

1956 Cooper T39

This car competed in the Bonhams Drum Brake Sports Cars Race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003.

It's Dutchman Adrian van der Kroft's 1956 Cooper T39 Bobtail with a 1,460cc Coventry Claimax engine, and it was named the 'Bobtail' because of the way the tail of the car was cut off just behind the rear wheels. This was found to make it more aerodynamically effective, but John Cooper tried to hide this fact by claiming it had been shortened so that it would fit inside the works transporter. It had the race number 10 in the programme of the event. The red number 23 car is the 1953 Tojeiro Bristol of Nick Wigley.

1961 Chevrolet Bel Air Station Wagon

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

It's a 1961 Chevrolet Bel Air Station Wagon and has a 348cu in (5.7 litres) Big-Block V8 engine. The Bel Air was produced from 1950 to 1976 (1981 in Canada) and this is a 5th Generation car that was in production from 1961 to 1964.

 

1929 Napier Bentley

This is a photograph that I took at Lodge Corner at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's Peter Morley in the 1929 Bentley Napier, a vehicle that he and David Llewellyn created in 1968 using a 24 litre Napier Sea Lion engine which has a 'W' configuration - two banks of four cylinders in a 'V' with a third upright bank between them. The car was originally built on a Sunbeam chassis but after an accident was rebuilt using the chassis of a 1929 8 litre Bentley.