The first car to bear a BHL (Brian Horace Lister) chassis number – nicknamed The Asteroid – is being offered in a private treaty sale by H&H Auctions.
As well as being the first car built by Brian Lister, the JAP-engined special is the second Tojeiro ever made, and the car in which Archie Scott Brown launched his motor racing career.
The diminutive racer registered 11 victories during the 1952-'53 seasons, aided by the car's low centre of gravity, high power-to-weight ratio and impressive torque produced by the 1100cc V-twin engine.
By the following season, the car had been passedon to Peter Hughes – a friend of Brian Lister who drove the car to success at Shelsley Walsh, Prescott, Charterhall, Bo'ness, Crimond and Barbon during his ownership. His greatest success came in 1955, when he piloted The Asteroid to fourth position in the Daily Record & Newcastle Journal International Race Meeting at Charterhall, pitched against larger-engined opposition from Connaught, Lotus and Elva.
