1958 Bocar XP-5

I took this photograph at Britten's chicane during the 1950's Sports Racing Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005.

It's Dean Butler's 1958 Bocar XP-5. The Bocar was a series of limited-production two-seaters developed by Bob Carnes in Lakewood Colorado starting with an experimental X-1 in 1958 which was followed by X-2 and X-3 examples and about five XP-4s. The first real production cars, begun in mid-1959 were the XP-5s which had a glass-reinforced polyester body surrounding a welded moly-tube space frame and a beefed-up Volkswagen rear suspension. The most common engine was a 283 cu in Corvette V8 unit. Dean Butler’s Bocar XP-5  was built by Bocar expert Doug Karon with Mustang front suspension, Jaguar rear suspension and a 383 cu in Chevrolet  small block engine - but the programme of this event says the car has a 4,735cc engine, which equates to 299 cu in.

1958 Bocar XP-5

This was one of the competitors in the 1950's Sports Racing Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005.

It's Dean Butler's 1958 Bocar XP-5. The Bocar was a series of limited-production two-seaters developed by Bob Carnes in Lakewood Colorado starting with an experimental X-1 in 1958 which was followed by X-2 and X-3 examples and about five XP-4s. The first real production cars, begun in mid-1959 were the XP-5s which had a glass-reinforced polyester body surrounding a welded moly-tube space frame and a beefed-up Volkswagen rear suspension. The most common engine was a 283 cu in Corvette V8 unit. Dean Butler’s Bocar XP-5  was built by Bocar expert Doug Karon with Mustang front suspension, Jaguar rear suspension and a 383 cu in Chevrolet  small block engine - but the programme of this event says the car has a 4,735cc engine, which equates to 299 cu in.

1953 Allard J2R

This was one of the entrants in the HGPCA Race for pre 1959 Drum Brake Sports Cars at the Historic Sports Car Club's Historic Tribute meeting at Silverstone in June 2004.

It's Dean Butler's 1953 Allard J2R, chassis 3404, which was driven in the race by Michael Windsor Price. Prior to the Second World War Sydney Allard produced a series of Allard Specials, and in 1945 founded the Allard Motor Company Ltd, which soon began to produce lightweight cars powered by large American V8 engines that were sold on both sides of the Atlantic. Sydney Allard himself drove his cars several times at Le Mans in the early 1950s, the best result being a third place finish in the 1950 race with an Allard J2. The J2R was Allard's final competition car, and it has a 390 cu in (6.4 litre) Cadillac V8 engine. The company continued to produce the Palm Beach and K3 sports cars and the P1 Sports Saloon until finally going into administration in 1957.

Miller 4WD

I took this photograph of a car that competed in one of the scratch races at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies race meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

It's Dean Butler's 1934 Miller 4-wheel drive which, as far as I can ascertain, took part in the Indianapolis 500 race in that year. It has a 4.2 litre, or 255 cu in, 4-cylinder unsupercharged engine.