9 cars built by the Rootes
Competitions Department, together for the first time.
Peter Harper and PWK 605 -
reunited.
Eric Kuiper
brought this Series V Rapier from Holland.
A rare Humber Super
Snipe estate.
Peter Jopp, racing driver and
driver of Rootes works rally cars.
Justin Harrington and
Peter Harper with 3000 RW, the Harrington Le Mans coupe that Peter Harper and Peter Procter drove to win
the Index of Thermal Efficiency at Le Mans in 1961.
David Humphrey, member of the
Rootes works team.
A beautiful pre-Rootes Singer van, a
Bantam, I believe.
Raymond Baxter, broadcaster and
member of the Rootes works team.
Rosemary Smith and
Peter Procter with ADU 179B, one of the works Le Mans Tigers.
Peter Jopp, Peter
Procter, Peter Harper and Ronnie Adams with the two works Rapiers.
Another pre-Rootes Singer, this one
competed at Brooklands and runs on methanol!
The line up from the
Hillman Owners Club.
A magnificent
Series II Humber Super Snipe.
A Commer
"double knocker" breakdown truck.
Rootes built
only 7477 of these Series I Sunbeam Rapiers. This one is from Belgium.
The works Imp in which Tiny Lewis
and David Pollard came second on the Tulip Rally in 1965.
A very nice Mark 1
Humber Sceptre. Did you know that the Mark 1 Sceptre was intended to be the Series IV Rapier?.
Not many of these left! A
Hillman Husky van.
How many of you went to school on
one of these?.
Many think this is the best
version of the Sunbeam Alpine, a Series 3.
A Humber Sceptre
estate, vintage 1976.
Another beautiful pre-Rootes
Singer.
Reg Guy's
immaculate Sunbeam Rapier IIIA convertible.
And finally, the third
Venezia, this one from Belgium. Is that a Cobra lurking in the
background?.
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