Tried to PM you, Hairyplane - but your mailbox is full!
Actually, the Vanwall made rather a tame TR2 sort of noise: real sonic excitement came from the Maserati 250F and (more so) the Lancia-Ferrari of that era - like a DFV, that one.
Subject for another thread: best sounding aeroplane. Of course, anything with a Merlin heads the list - but I'd love to hear a Napier Sabre on full song. Poor old Grumman Wildcat sounds like a dumper-track and Black 6 really did have a stone-crusher note to its exhaust at idle, as one wartime German pilot said years ago in a letter to Pilot...