Subscriber-exclusive Photo Gallery from the VSCC’s April 13-14, Formula Vintage Festival at Silverstone, with the HGPCA, HRDC and Benjafield’s Bentleys.
3 ERA’s in one frame. Gillies (R3A) leads Dowling (R10B) and Fidler (AJM 1)
18 going on 21
A fabulous duel for the lead between Robin Tuluie (Riley Menasco Pirate) and Tom Walker (Amilcar Hispano Spl.)
Alex Quattlebaum – Leco Sports
Alexander Hewitson’s Riley12-4 Spl. leads Tom Thornton’s BMW 319 and Ian Fyfe’s Alvis 12-70
Appropriately named SandfordAndrews beaches his 1926 Morgan Aero
Barry Louvel – 1963 Tornado Talisman
Ben Maeers driving his father’s familiar 1926 GN Parker
Bentley Le Mans start for Benjafield race
Bumble – The MG Magnette ZA of Mike Lamplough with boot providing a rear spoiler
Busy field at the start of the HGPCA race
Charlie Sharp – Morris Minor Million
Two grey Alfa Romeo Giulia Berlinas overtake a 75
Chris Rea driving his Police Morris Minor 1000
Dan Ghose in pretty Maserati 4CM
David Jones’ Volvo 122 Amazon
Duncan Ricketts in the Parnell Challenger leads two rear-engined upstarts
Eddie Perk (Heron -Alfa F1) holds off a sideways Rod Jolley’s CooperT43-51
ERA R4A (Nick Topliss) leads ERA AJM1 (Ben Fidler)
ERA R5B Remus bearing Prince Bira’s SIAM heritage on its tail
ex-Bill Blydenstein Vauxhall VX 4-90 driven by Paul Clayson
ex-JCB Chevron B8 – Tony Bianchi
Fantastic car control by Theodore Hunt in his Frazer Nash-BMW 328
Fine mix of HGPCA stalwarts – Julian Bronson’s Scarab leads Charles McCabe’s ERA and Mark Daniell’s Cooper T45
Geraint Owen – 1954 Kurtis 500C-2
Two Jaguars (Graham love’s Mk VII and Grant Williams’ Coombs Mk i sandwich the Austin A35
John Carpenter – Assegai
Great scrap between (L to R) Maeers, Blakeney-Edwards and Lees
HRDC ALLSTARS
John Chisholm – 1952 Arnott F3 500
John Symes’Alfa Romeo GTAm Evocation
Jon Fairley Brabham BT11-19
Julian Wilton leans out of ERA R7B
Justin Maeers in typical pose with the GN Parker
Leaky exhaust for the Aston Martin International of Marian Stoch
Lotus XV – Bernardo Hartogs
Magnificent Alfa Romeo Monza of Neil Twyman
Two Mustangs and a Mini
Malcolm Ricketts – Lotus VIII
Marino Franchitti – Maserati 250F
Mark Gillies (R3A) takes the lead of the ERA race from Nicholas Topliss (R4A)
Martyn Spurrell’s 1966 Mini Marcos with rear wheel spats
Max Sowerby has his hands full with the CDL Chorlton Special
New to HGPCA is John Emery – ex Bib Stilwell Brabham BT4
Nick Taylor in the Corvette-powered Kellison J4
Paddins Dowling is a study of concentration in ERA R10B
Paul Malcolm – Lotus Mk X
Peter Horsman holds a narrow lead in his Lotus 21 from winner Barry Cannell’s BrabhamBT11A
Philip Walker’s Lotus Xv overtaking Osca 1600GT with Lister Chevrolet following
Varied mix of Austin A30, Ford Mustang and Cooper-Bristol at Luffield Corner
Richard Reay-Smith holds a slide in his Lagonda LG45
Richard Wilson brought out his 1962 Monaco GP winning Cooper T60
Riley 1.5 of Ding Boston
Stephen Bond in the Lister Flat Iron
Sue Darbyshire – 1929 Morgan Super Aero
Terry Crabb driving the freshly painted ERA R12C Hanuman
The 1962 Monaco-winning Cooper T60 of Richard Wilson made a glorious sound
The magnificent ERA Parnell Challenger driven by Duncan Ricketts
This time Tuluie leads Walker
Tom Dark finished a creditable 4th and 2nd in the 2 HGPCA races
Tom Thornton sorting out the direction of trvel in his BMW 329-28K
Tony Smith 1959 Cooper T51
Wulf Goetze (Cooper T53) leads Tom Dark (Cooper T51)
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