1935 Maserati 4CS

This car took part in a 4-lap scratch race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's Ken Painter's 1935 Maserati 4CS, chassis #1126, originally with a supercharged 4-cylinder inline 1,088cc engine that was replaced with a 1,496cc engine in 1938. The car was originally owned by Ettore Bianco who finished in 7th, and then 6th in the 1935 and 1936 Mille Miglia races, winning his class on both occasions. It was involved in a fatal accident with the next owner, then acquired and rebuilt in 1937 by Luigi Villoresi and Count Giovanni Lurani's Scuderia Ambrosiana, and in 1939 found a new owner in Singapore. Ken Painter, bought the car in 1969, and it's been with the family ever since.

1934 Maserati 4CS

This car competed in the Pre-War Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the 1934 Maserati 4CS of Norbert Schmitz-Koep and he shared the driving in the race with Ludwig Willisch. The Maserati 4CS was produced from 1931 to 1936 with a supercharged 1,088c engine, and from 1932 to 1936 with a lengthened chassis and a supercharged 1,498cc engine. Norbert Schmitz-Koep's car is chassis #1123 and was one of the five cars built with the smaller engine. Six cars were built with the larger engine, but in the 1980s or 90s #1123 was given one of the 1,498cc engines.

1935 Maserati 4CS

This car took part in the Redgate Mug Race for Standard & Modified Pre-War Sports-Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's Adam Painter's 1935 Maserati 4CS, chassis #1126, originally with a supercharged 4-cylinder inline 1,088cc engine that was replaced with a 1,496cc engine in 1938. The car was originally owned by Ettore Bianco who finished in 7th, and then 6th in the 1935 and 1936 Mille Miglia races, winning his class on both occasions. It was involved in a fatal accident with the next owner, then acquired and rebuilt in 1937 by Luigi Villoresi and Count Giovanni Lurani's Scuderia Ambrosiana, and in 1939 found a new owner in Singapore. Adam Painter's father, Ken Painter, bought the car in 1969, and it's been with the family ever since.

1938 Fiat 508C

This car competed in the Redgate Mug Race for Standard and Modified Pre-war Sports Cars at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

Listed in the programme of the event as a Fiat New Balilla it's Cyril Hancock's 1938 Fiat 508C with a 4-cylinder inline 1,089cc engine. It's called the 'new' Balilla because of mechanical improvements made to the car including independent front suspension, and a larger overhead valve engine replacing the 995cc sidevalve engine of the older car. Next to the Fiat is Adam Painter's supercharged 1,496cc 1935 Maserati 4CS.

1934 Maserati 4CS

This car competed in the Pre-War Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's the 1934 Maserati 4CS of Norbert Schmitz-Koep and he shared the driving in the race with Ludwig Willisch. The Maserati 4CS was produced from 1931 to 1936 with a supercharged 1,088c engine, and from 1932 to 1936 with a lengthened chassis and a supercharged 1,498cc engine. Norbert Schmitz-Koep's car is chassis #1123 and was one of the five cars built with the smaller engine. Six cars were built with the larger engine, but in the 1980s or 90s #1123 was given one of the 1,498cc engines.

Maserati 4CS

Maserati was the featured marque at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005, and this is one of the Maseratis that took part in the Celebration Maserati Invitation Race.

It's the 1935 Maserati 4CS of Adam Painter. chassis #1126, which was one of five built between 1932 and 1936, originally with a 4-cylinder 1,100cc engine, but according to the programme of the event now with a 1,496cc supercharged unit.

Maserati 4CS

I took this photograph  in the paddock at Silverstone at the Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's a 1932 Maserati 4CS 1100, chassis #1114. Originally built as a sports car with a supercharged dual overhead camshaft four-cylinder inline 1,088cc engine it was converted to a monoposto by Count Castelbarco and the engine replaced with the 1,498cc engine from a Maserati 4CS 1500. During a restoration in the 1990s it was given a replica of its original two-seat body, but it apparently still has the 1½ litre engine.

Maserati 4CL

This car competed in the HGPCA Pre '52 GP Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's Norbert Schmitz-Koep's 1939 Maserati 4CL, chassis #1566, and sitting in the cockpit is Martin Morris. Norbert Schmitz-Koep is sitting alongside in another of his cars, a 1934 Maserati 4CS. The Maserati 4CL was designed for Voiturette racing, and had a supercharged 1,491cc straight-4 engine. The car had some success in it's first season until racing was curtailed by the Second World War, and dominated racing in the years immediately following the war in the hands of drivers such as Raymond Sommer, Tazio Nuvolari and Luigi Villoresi, until the arrival of the Alfa Romeo 158.