1927 Miller Model 91 Racer

The Miller 'Derby' is a front-wheel-drive car built by Harry Miller. It has a 1.5-liter supercharged twin-cam engine. After appearing at the Indianapolis 500 in 1928 and 1929, the car was bought by British race driver Douglas Hawkes for his wife, Gwenda Hawkes-Stewart. She drove the car at Montlhery in 1930 and set many records with the car over the next five years. In 1934 she set a record of 147.79 mph at Montlhery in France. In 1935 she broke the Class E and Ladies Race record at Brooklands that has never been broken. After she sold the car, the engine was bought by a newspaper owner in Northern Ireland and then by the Indianapolis Speedway Museum. The rest of the car had remained in England, and now the car has been reunited and restored to its former glory by its current owner, who bought the car in 1993.