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Showing posts with label Steve O'Rourke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve O'Rourke. Show all posts

Friday, 29 March 2024

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the Coys International Historic Festival meting at Silverstone in July 1997
It didn't take part in any of the races at the meeting, but it's the Fantuzzi-bodied 1959 Ferrari 246 S Dino Prototype, chassis #0784, of Steve O'Rourke with a 2,417cc V6 engine. The car originally had a body resembling the 3 litre V12 engined Ferrari 250 TR, but at the end of the 1960 season when the car was sold to Luigi Chinetti he had the body replaced with this one.

Friday, 14 July 2023

Friday's Ferrari

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997 featured a display of Ferraris in the paddock some of which took part in demonstration runs around the circuit during the meeting. This car wasn’t in the special display and neither did it compete at the meeting, it was just lined up in the paddock alongside various other cars.
It’s the Fantuzzi bodied 1959 Ferrari Dino 246 S prototype, chassis 0794TR, then owned by Steve O’Rourke and has a 2,417cc V6 engine. It competed as a works car in the 1960 Targa Florio and Nürburgring 1000km race then was sold to Luigi Chinetti in the USA.

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

1959 Cooper T51 Maserati

This was one of the competitors in the Pre '61 Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.
It's the 1959 Cooper T51 Maserati of the late Steve O'Rourke, better known as manager of Pink Floyd. The car is chassis F2/16/59 and was originally supplied with a Coventry Climax 2 litre engine to an Australian customer. After several owners in Australia it went to the USA and then in 1990 to Steve O'Rourke who had a 2 litre Maserati engine fitted.

Monday, 29 June 2020

1958 Lister Jaguar

This was one of the competitors in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.
It's the 1958 Lister Jaguar of the late Steve O'Rourke, former manager of the Pink Floyd rock band. The car has the 3,781cc version of the 6-cylinder inline Jaguar XK6 engine. Originally a works car, chassis BHL2, it was sold at the end of 1959 and eventually ended up with Mike Wright who competed with the car but wrote it off in a road accident. The remains in time came to John Pearson who used the parts to construct a replica which was sold to Steve O'Rourke in 1989.

On 24 November 2016 I showed several photographs of the car that I had taken at Oulton Park in 1992.

Thursday, 24 November 2016

Lister Jaguar

This car competed in the Historic Car Championship Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1992.
It's Steve O'Rourke's 1959 Lister Jaguar. The original TUN 708 was written off in an accident and the remains were used to re-create this replica.
Steve O'Rourke waiting in the pit lane to join the circuit during a practice session.
Steve O'Rourke was the manager of Pink Floyd and combined this with his motor racing activities, competing in the Le Mans 24 Hour race on several occasions and finishing in fourth place in 1998 in a McLaren F1 GTR partnered by Tim Sugden and Bill Auberlen. Sadly he died in Miami in 2003 after suffering a stroke.

Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Aston Martin DBR2

These two cars took part in the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.
This is the 1957 Aston Martin DBR2 of Simon Draper and was driven by David Clark in the race.
Only two Aston Martin DBR2s were built, and this is DBR2/2.

This is the other DBR2, driven at Silverstone by the owner, Steve O'Rourke, it's DBR2/1.