MotorSport Gallery

The Museum's motorsport gallery includes a collection of beautifully maintained vehicles on loan to the Museum from Martin Stretton Racing.

The collection changes regularly but on permanent display are the Museum's own motorsport vehicles, vintage and modern including a 1928 Ulster TT winning Lea Francis, a Talbot and Peugeot rally cars driven in the 1980s.

In the Motor Sport gallery you can see a fascinating collection of vehicles used in rallies and races, dating from the 1920s to the present.

Coventry car makers have  a long tradition of entering vehicles in competitions and the gallery displays a number Coventry built rally and racing cars. These include two Lea Francis Hypers that won at both the Ards TT and Le Mans in the 1920s. There are also Sunbeam and Talbot rally cars from the 1950s and 1980s, a Peugeot Group B rally car and a Jaguar Formula One racing car from 2003.

The gallery also displays a fascinating collection of racing cars on loan from Martin Stretton Racing. These include Maserati, Lotus and Cooper Grand Prix Cars from the 1950s and 1960s as well as Porsche, Lola and Chevron endurance racing cars. This section of the display is constantly being renewed as cars are returned to Martin Stretton for competition at historic race meetings and are replaced by no less exciting and fascinating vehicles.

The Motor Sport Gallery is for devoted Petrol Heads.
 

Images by Haydn Bailey Photography

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