A new scrutineering bay and VIP center was recently opened at Snetterton race circuit. Jonathon Palmer head of Motor Sport Vision, the company that owns the circuit, was assisted by Brian Lister, former team manager, and Jack Sears, one of Scott-Brown’s former teammates. All three gave tribute to the bravery...
I have just marked my half-century of being a motor racing enthusiast. On February 1, 1957, I bought a copy...
Vintage Racecar was asked to play a part in continuing celebrations of 50 Years of the Lister “Knobbly” at the...
As everyone knows, after the 1960 racing season, Carroll Shelby retired as a driver and became even better known for creating Cobras and Shelby Mustangs. But perhaps fewer know that he ventured into car creation somewhat before. During the fifties, Shelby, Jim Hall, and Jim’s brother, Richard, had a dealership...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
The inspiration behind the concepts and designs of Lister cars came from the pre-war Mercedes racing cars that would today...
This is the story of a hero who was more heroic than most. You may not have heard of Archie Scott-Brown, but that shrewd judge of racing driver talent Juan Manuel Fangio, who won the Formula One World Championship five times, called this diminutive Scot phenomenal, and said he showed...
1956 Lycoming Special The immediate post World War Two years were best described as austere times for many countries, even...
My recollection of getting to know Archie was that my father went to Cambridge University and was a member of the Cambridge University Motor Club. The club had an annual dinner through which I met Archie and Peter Riley (later to become a works Healey driver), both of whom became...
Canadian Big Healey Dear Editor, I enjoyed the article “Big Healey” in the March 2012 issue of Vintage Racecar. In...
One of the most inspiring stories in the history of motorsport recently took place, and though few in the motorsport...
Next spring’s 75th Members’ Meeting will feature a full grid of Lister sports-racing cars fighting it out on the Goodwood Motor Circuit for the all-new Scott Brown Trophy. Celebrating 60 years of arguably Lister’s most famous model — the “Knobbly” —30 Listers, including Jaguar- and Chevrolet-engined examples, will go wheel...
May 2017 During the Sussex Trophy Race at Goodwood, on April 7, 1958, Archie Scott Brown keeps the works Lister-Jaguar...
George Lister & Son was a very old engineering company in my hometown of Cambridge, starting in 1895. I joined them in 1947, having done two years training at the Technical College, as their only apprentice. At that time, Brian Lister, grandson of George and son of Horace, had just...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
“Boy’s Own” Racer Personally speaking, I’m not an advocate of racing specials, especially those cars built that have little, or...
Edwin Barton, or “Dick” as he was affectionately known, in deference to the popular 1940s British radio series and the Hammer films fictitious hero “Dick Barton — Special Agent.” While not a special agent, Dick Barton became a very close friend and right hand man of Brian Lister. Barton had...
The Lister Motor Company has made “continuation” examples of the “Knobbly” Lister-Jaguar. An auction house has claimed that a car...