Four decades of sidecar racing will be celebrated at the Classic TT next week as 32 outfits from 1966 up to 1990 will take to the Mountain Course for the Classic Sidecar Parade Lap.

Set to take place on Tuesday (August 25) ar 12.30pm, the parade will feature a real smorgasbord of sidecars, including twin-cylinder, four-cylinder, four-stroke and, of course, two-stroke machines showcasing the development of the three-wheeled category across a 24-year period between 1966 and 1990.

Some of the biggest names to grace Sidecar TT entry lists will be out on course, including 17-time winner Dave Molyneux, the most successful sidecar driver ever around the Mountain Course.

Riding alongside Molyneux will be Dan Sayle, whose eight victories places him as the joint second most successful passenger in TT history.

The duo will be riding Molyneux's faithful TR750 Suzuki, inspired by the machine specification that took John Williams to victory in the 1976 Schweppes Classic TT.

Further Sidecar TT winners playing a role in the Parade Lap include 2013 winner Tim Reeves. The eight-time World Sidecar Champion will ride a Windle Yamaha TZ750 from 1980, and will be joined by brother Tristan Reeves in the passenger’s chair, himself a two-time World Champion.

The winner of the opening Sidecar race in 2014, Conrad Harrison, father of seven-time TT winner Dean Harrison, will also be in action aboard a Colin Hopper-built outfit. Elsewhere, solo TT regular Michal Dokoupil will take part in the parade aboard a 1970s BMW-powered outfit alongside close friend Jan Volman.

One pairing turning back the clock will be the husband-and-wife team of two-time winner John Holden and Fiona Baker-Holden.

The two never rode together competitively, with Baker-Holden instead passengering for father Tony Baker and Mick Harvey and twice being awarded the Susan Jenness Award for the Most Meritorious Female Competitor in 2011 and 2015.

Holden, meanwhile, took victory in 2011 and 2016 with a further 20 podium visits between 2005 and 2003. The two will demonstrate a 1000cc Honda-powered Shelbourne outfit.

The final winner on the list never actually won a Sidecar race outright, but was declared overall winner in 1987.

Kenny Howles, who rides an Ireson Suzuki in the parade, finished fifth and second in the two Sidecar races that year, but took the overall victory as the results of both races in the late 1970s and 1980s were added together and an overall winner named on aggregate.

Other outfits to watch for include Greg Lambert and Andrew Haynes on a 1988 Shelbourne Yamaha TZ350, with two-time podium finishing Lambert returning to the type of outfit he made his TT debut on back in 1993.

The parade will also see those who have enjoyed a strong Sidecar career away from the island honoured. Derek Brindley will ride a similar outfit to Lambert during the Parade Lap, and although Brindley himself only made one appearance at the TT in 1989 (finishing an impressive fourth in the F2 class), he is better remembered as a regular front runner in the Sidecar World Championship throughout the 1990s.

Special mention should go to the Ford Dunn Yamaha TZ750 demonstrated by Craig Currie and Justin Sharp.

A unique outfit in its own right, powered by ‘The Beast’, otherwise known as the Yamaha TZ750, it propelled Bruce Ford-Dunn and Alastair Pirie to championship glory in the 1982 British Championship. This high-revving, four-cylinder, two-stroke will be instantly recognisable on course long before you’ve even seen it.