1970 Macon MR8

I photographed this car at Lodge Corner during the HSCC Historic Formula Ford Championship Race at the Historic Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 2001.

It's the 1600cc 1970 Macon MR8 of Paul Sleeman, who had won the HSCC Formula Ford Championship with this car in the years 1999 and 2000. Macon Race Cars was started in the early 1960s by Tony Houghton and Angus McPhail and mainly built cars for Formula Ford, but also some for Formula 2, Formula B, Formula Pacific and Formula Junior.

1923 Talbot 10/23

I photographed this car in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's a 1923 Talbot 10/23, created by Georges Roesch who increased the size of the 4-cylinder inline Talbot 8 engine that had been designed by Louis Coatalen from 870cc to 1,074cc. The Talbot 10/23 also had a lengthened chassis and more powerful brakes.

1989 TVR Tuscan Challenge

Walking past the local Shell filling station on the way to buy my morning paper recently I saw this car, looking a bit different from the usual rather more mundane vehicles seen there.

It's a TVR, and the DVLA record says that it's a 1989 model with a 5 litre engine. It's a TVT Tuscan Challenge, a car that was developed for a one-make race series, initially using a 4,441cc Rover V8 engine but when BMW took over the Rover company TVR developed their own 4,500cc V8 TVR Speed Eight engine. A number of the cars were converted for road use and the DVLA say that this particular car, though built in 1989, was first registered for road use in 2001.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at Club Corner during one of the Ferrari Challenge races at the Ferrari Racing Days event at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's the Ferrari 488 Challenge of James Weiland, and has a 3,902cc V8 turbocharged F154CB engine. This is what Ferrari say about the Challenge series of races:

'Over 1000 drivers have taken part in it, 100s of races have been disputed, while the overtaking, the thrills and the fun are incalculable. We are talking about the Ferrari Challenge, the most renowned single-marque championship, that has been bringing together dream cars and esteemed clients on the world’s most picturesque tracks since 1993. A competition for those who, not satisfied with just driving their Ferraris on the road, feel the urge to compete in top-level sprint races. The Ferrari Challenge is divided into three continental series: Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific series, which celebrated its inaugural season in 2011. A further English national series was added in 2019.Challenge races are always hard fought and battle-filled, allowing the driver to fully savour the excitement that only the track can give.'

1927 ERA Delage

This car competed in a Ten Lap Scratch Race for Pre-war Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's Bruce Spollon's 1927/37 1,988cc supercharged straight-6 ERA engined Delage, created by Rob Walker who installed an ERA engine in one of Albert Lory's 1927 Delage 15 S8 Grand Prix cars. The car competed in Historic racing events for many years until acquired by Peter Mullin for the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California in 2006.

1942 Leyland Titan TD5

This was one of the participants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's a 1942 Leyland Titan TD5 and was supplied to SMT in 1942 with fleet number J66. It remained in service until 1973 and is now in the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum. A note in the programme of the event reads as follows:

Leyland Titan TD5, Alexander L53R, 1942                                                                DSG169

Entered by J. Pettie, Stirling, Scotland

Believed to be the only 'unfrozen' TD5 to be built, this vehicle was converted to open top in 1959 and used until 1973 when purchased for preservation. Restored to original closed top condition in 1980/81.

1952 Jaguar XK120 Jabbeke Special Replica

This car was displayed by Jaguar XK specialists Guy Broad Parts on their stand in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

In 1953 Jaguar's test and development driver Norman Dewis in a Jaguar XK120  set a World Speed Record for production cars in a 2-way run over a flying mile of Belgium's Jabbeke motorway with an average speed of 140.789mph. Later in the year the record was beaten by a Spanish Pegaso with 150.13 mph, but Norman Dewis and the Jaguar returned to Jabbeke in October 1953 and reclaimed the record at 173.159 mph. The car pictured above is a replica of that car, constructed by Guy Broad's Broadsport company.