Post War Cars | Kop Hill Climb 2014

This video kicks off with a toddler taking a nap! It then shows a Frasier-Nash Le Mans Replica, followed by the Stovebolt Special.

The Stovebolt was a real catch for Kop Hill in 2014. This car started life as one of the works HWM-Alta Formula 2 racing cars in 1950. In his first season as a paid professional, HWM team leader Stirling Moss raced it in several European Grands Prix. It was then bought by a Swiss privateer, who raced it with some success and then sold it to Twentieth Century Fox, who were in Europe shooting a new Hollywood movie, The Racers, starring Kirk Douglas. They then sold it to West Coast racer Tom Carstens, who replaced the Alta engine with one of the just-announced Chevrolet V8s. 'The Stovebolt Special” - as the American press nicknamed it - was the first road racing car in the world to use this engine. It has raced in this form ever since, through the 1950s and 1960s in the USA, then in historic racing on both sides of the Atlantic. Simon Taylor bought it over 15 years ago and has restored it into exactly the form it was in when it made its V8 debut in 1956, but retaining wings and lights so that it can be registered as a fully-legal road car.

The video then shows a misbehaving A35 with a 1275cc turbocharged engine, a 1961 MGA shipped from the USA, and a 1961 D-type Jaguar raced at club events in the '60s,