VEHICLES # 5.

 

1935 STANDARD.

 

 

Model - sixteen. Engine - 16hp, 6 cylinders. Made in Coventry UK.

 

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1930 STANDARD SWALLOW.

 

Engine - 1,141cc 9hp. Top speed - 55mph approx. Price new - £250. One of Sir William Lyons earlier creations, these standard nines were very popular when fitted with the swallow coachwork of S S Cars Ltd. This particular example was discovered in a barn in Essex , which had part collapsed on the car and distorted all the roof members. The restoration of the car began at the former Jaguar - Daimler training school at Sandy Lane. However when this project was abandoned and the training school relocated to Longbridge, the car was passed to the museum with only the chassis in any fit sort of state. The restoration was completed by the museums technical staff in 1985.

 

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2003 JAGUAR R4  F1.

 

Engine - Cosworth V10. This particular car, chassis number R4 - 05, was raced from the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring at the end of June 2003 for the rest of the season.

 

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1973 TRIUMPH DOLOMITE SPRINT.

 

Engine - 1,998cc. Top speed - 116mph. Price new - £1,811. The Dolomite range was very popular with the public and the Sprint was the ultimate model. This particular Coventry built vehicle is the first Dolomite Sprint and carries chassis number VA1 DL and is still fitted with the original engine, number VA1 HE. The car has only 31,000 miles on the clock. It was featured at the Zurich and Earls Court motor show and subsequently became the factory demonstrator.

 

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1954 KIEFT F3.

 

This car was purchased by Jim Burgoyne in 1954, the second to be built with the new four-cylinder Turner engine. It completed in a number of races and has made appearances at exhibitions since. Graham Burgoyne ( Jims son ) has kept this car in its present condition and the vehicle remains in full running order. The high performance Turner multi cylinder 500cc engine was very revolutionary for its time, pre-emptying the arrival of similar engines from Japan by over two decades. The Kieft company ceased building 500cc racing cars in 1954. Engine - 500cc Turner, 50bhp. Top speed - 100mph.

 

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1965 LOLA  T70 MK1.

 

Engine - 5.7 litre Chevrolet V8, 505bhp. Top speed - 205mph. Lola racing cars is a British racing car engineering company founded in 1961 by Eric Broadley and is based in Huntingdon.

 

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1967 LOLA T70 MK111.

 

Engine - 5,000cc, Ford V8, 450bhp at 6,200rpm. Top speed - 200mph+. This particular Lola  T70 was originally raced in the USA with open bodywork, before being converted to its present form for European racing.

 

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TRIUMPH TR7 1976.

 

Price new - £2,999. Engine - 1,998cc. Top speed - 110mph. The wedge shaped TR7 was introduced in 1975 as a replacement for the traditional TR6. Using a 2 litre Dolomite Sprint engine it was originally built at British Leylands Speke factory in Liverpool, but production later moved to the Canley plant at Coventry and finally Solihull. My travelling companion, the person on the left of the car used to own one of these.

 

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1960 MORRIS MINI.

 

Engine - 848cc. Top speed - 75mph. Price new - £497. The Mini designed by Alex Issigonis was unveiled to the public at Earls Court motor show in 1959. The car became extremely popular with the public, the rich and the famous and even royalty. An icon of the 1960`s it became a star in its own right in the British crime caper movie `The Italian Job`. The Mini stayed in production for 41 years during which time an astonishing 4.6 million were made.

 

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After all that driving around, lets take a rest in one of these----

 

 

 

 

1938 ECCLES CARAVAN.

 

Price new - £195. Eccles were probably Britain's best known caravan makers from before World War Two through to the 1950s. They made their caravans at Stirchley in Birmingham.

 

 

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