Stars & Stripes, Tatton Park, July 2 and 3

The winner of the second heat of the Kingstown Shipping Car of the Year competition should look familiar to most readers, as it has swept the board in terms of trophies and accolades up and down the country.

Owner Steve Sullivan set himself the task of recreating what a brand-new 1958 Cadillac Sedan De Ville would be like in a Cadillac showroom in the autumn of 1957, when the car would have been fresh off the production line.

The level of detail that Steve has gone into in ‘creating’ this car has many folks wondering if Cadillacs could actually have been this good when they were new, or if this is a whole new level of attention to detail, unseen in all but the highest levels of concours competition.

The car left others trailing in its wake when it won the Fins & Chrome Class at the London Concours show in London in June this year.

Steve Sullivan with Mark Cowley from Kingstown... HEAT 2

Stephen Shores from Kingstown hands over the trophy to Trevor Cowell... HEAT 3

… whose 1936 Cord won heat 3.

… winning ’58 Cadillac.