1968 McLaren M6B

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during qualifying for the HSCC Pre'80 Endurance Challenge race at the Gold Cup Meeting at Oulton Park in August 2018.

It's Anthony Taylor's 1968 McLaren M6B which the programme of the event says has a 5 litre engine. The M6B was the customer version of the Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Team's M6A which was built for the 1967 Can-Am season. The customer car was developed in conjunction with McLaren's technical partner Trojan and sold without an engine, but the M6A had a Chevrolet engine and it's likely that this car also has the 307 cu in Chevrolet small-block V8 engine.

McLaren M6B

This car competed in the HSCC Pre'80 Endurance Challenge race at the Gold Cup Meeting at Oulton Park in August 2018.

It's Anthony Taylor's 1968 McLaren M6B which the programme of the event says has a 5 litre engine.

The M6B was the customer version of the Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Team's M6A which was built for the 1967 Can-Am season. The customer car was developed in conjunction with McLaren's technical partner Trojan and sold without an engine, but the M6A had a Chevrolet engine and it's likely that this car also has the 307 cu in Chevrolet small-block V8 engine.

Anthony Taylor's car is chassis 50-08 which was originally supplied to Canadian Roger McCaig who used it to contest the 1969 Can-Am series He then sold it to fellow Canadian Ranier Brezinka who used it to compete in the 1970 Can-Am series but crashed and wrecked the car at the Road Atlanta race. The remains of the car, excluding the severely damaged tub were sold to Doug Rowe, and some years later Ranier Brezinka sold the damaged tub to Anthony Taylor who acquired the remaining parts from Doug Rowe and used these to help rebuilt the car.

I've shown photographs of the McLaren M6B previously, most recently on 28 November 2017.

Guards Trophy Race Oulton Park 2017

Here at Britten's chicane are five of the cars that contested the 40 minute long Guards Trophy Race for Sports Racing Cars at the HSCC's Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.

This is the 1966 McLaren M1B driven by Anthony Taylor and Andrew Wareing and is powered by a 5.7 litre Chevrolet  V8 engine.

This 1964 Cooper Maserati driven by Michael O'Shea is a Cooper T61 Monaco chassis with a 5 litre V8 Maserati engine, as found in the Maserati Tipo 151.

The 1964 Elva Mk7S of Nick Pancisi and Rob Wainwright is powered by a 1,991cc BMW engine

The 1968 Lenham P69 of Brian Casey is powered by a 1,594cc Ford engine.

Philip Nelson's 1968 Chevron B8 has a 1,991cc BMW engine.

Willment-BRM

Here's a car that I photographed at the HSCC's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

It's Anthony Taylor's 1965 Willment-BRM and it competed in the RJB Mining Championship race. The car has a 1,930cc BRM V8 engine.

On 30 July 2016 I showed a photograph of this car at Silverstone in 1999.

Willment BRM

Here's a car that competed in the Coys of Kensington 80th Anniversary Trophy Race for Pre-1972 Le Mans Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's Anthony Taylor's 1965 Willment-BRM, about which I've been able to find little information except that it's powered by a 2 litre BRM engine.

NB: Since it's 50 years today since 30th July 1966, here's a link to a piece I wrote on 30th July 2012:

http://hyde1841.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/30-july-1966.html