A car once owned by screen goddess Brigitte Bardot will take part in this year's London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.

She owned the 1903 De Dion Bouton during the Sixties, when she was at the height of her fame as one of the first French actresses to make it big outside France.

Married to Roger Vadim, she appeared in films such as Please Not Now and Love On A Pillow.

Bardot had the car for show because it was not practical for her frequent shopping trips.

At the time she was frequently photographed endorsing cars such as the latest Renaults.

She later sold the veteran car and became reclusive at her home in St Tropez, setting up foundations for animal welfare.

The car has a maximum speed of 20mph and has been lovingly cared for by its present owner, Robert Cleminson, who will drive it from Hyde Park Corner to the finishing line on Brighton seafront.

It is one of 500 vehicles in the run on November 7.

Entries are already flooding in from all over the world.

Also taking part is Nick Mason, drummer with Pink Floyd, who has a keen interest in motoring and has raced in various classic sports cars.

Nick will travel in a Panhard et Levassor manufactured in 1901.

It is the only one in existence and embodies the fundamental technological formula which formed the basis of the evolution of the car in the early 20th Century.

Another interesting vehicle has been entered by David Ralph, a taxi driver from Crawley.

He will make the 57-mile journey from London in a 1903 Humberette, an open two-seater with a maximum speed of 25mph.

The car has completed 22 runs out of 23 entered since 1953 and was in use from 1903 until 1915, when it was laid up until its first restoration for its early Fifties run.

The oldest car currently entered is a Locomobile manufactured in 1899 in the USA.

It was imported to the UK in 1980 by the present owner, Peter Lumsden, a farmer from Kent.

Eight-year-old Katie Smart and brother Olly, 11, from Enfield, Middlesex, have entered their one-cylinder, eight horsepower 1903 De Dion Bouton, but father Dickie has made sure he has reserved the driving seat for the journey.