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Alexis MkII
Manufactured: 1960
Number Built: 1
Engine: BMC A series 1098cc
Configuration: front-engine, rear-wheel drive
Driver: Stuart Roach
Race Series: Historic Formula Junior
Date taken: September 2005, Croft Circuit
This car was designed an built by Graham Walker and Alec Francis.

Crossle 4F
Manufactured: 1961
Engine: Ford 1100cc
Configuration: rear-engine, rear-wheel drive
Driver: Andrew Robertson
Race Series: Historic Formula Junior
Date taken: September 2005, Croft Circuit
This car was designed by John Crossle and built in his Northern Ireland factory; the company went on to produce some of the best Formula Ford cars of the 70s.

BMC (Huffaker) MkI
Manufactured: 1960
Number Built: 22
Engine: BMC A series 1098cc
Configuration: front-engine, rear-wheel drive
Driver: John Monson
Race Series: Historic Formula Junior
Date taken: May 2005, Croft Circuit
This car was designed in 1959 by Jeff Huffaker and built by BMC’s American competition dept. in San Francisco for the following season (1960). More correctly, the car should be called a BMC MkI as Huffaker’s name was not added until the MkII came out in 1961. It was an immediate success; its low price, under $4000 ready to race, reliability and race winning success made it the most successful front engined Formula Junior in America.

Moorland
Manufactured: 1959
Number Built: 1
Engine: BMC A series 1098cc
Configuration: front-engine, rear-wheel drive
Driver: William Grimshaw
Race Series: Historic Formula Junior
Date taken: September 2005, Croft Circuit
This one-off was designed by Len Terry and built by the Mooland Car Company of London, its first owner was Graham Warner of London’s famous Chequered Flag car dealership. It won the inaugural Formula Junior race in 1959, driven by Ian Raby, despite having to start from the back of the grid. It then spent over 40 years in America before being brought back by its current owner/driver William Grimshaw. An evolution of the Moorland was renamed the Gemini MkII in 1960, this name carrying on to the MkIV version in 1962.