Looking for this Lotus Eleven
#1
Posted 17 May 2012 - 20:27
It was a dark blue colour and we have had word that it was on the starting ramp to the Mille Miglia at some point.
Here is a photo, does anyone knows where this car could be? maybe it is racing?
Thanks!
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#2
Posted 17 May 2012 - 20:32
DCN
#3
Posted 17 May 2012 - 20:47
#4
Posted 17 May 2012 - 20:57
#5
Posted 17 May 2012 - 20:58
Edited by thebullet, 17 May 2012 - 21:00.
#6
Posted 18 May 2012 - 06:50
TNF took all of what - 30 minutes - to resolve this?
#7
Posted 18 May 2012 - 07:45
cheers guys.
#8
Posted 13 October 2018 - 13:56
The late Peter Ross started a topic about this car in the 1957 Mille Miglia https://forums.autos...7-mille-miglia/
Bruno Ferrari was the driver of RNP 735 and Peter wrote about him in an article in Historic Lotus (No. 50 Autumn 2007). The article ends: 'He (Bruno) is known to have raced his Lotus at Silverstone later in 1957. Does anyone know what happened to it after that?'
There is a photo of the car on the REVS website taken by George Phillips at Silverstone on 27th July 1957.
#9
Posted 13 October 2018 - 14:18
#10
Posted 14 October 2018 - 09:43
Thanks, Rupert. Zoom in on the photo using this link: https://library.revs...ion=p17257coll1 . RNP 735 is (16) and it has some unusual snorkels on the front of the brake cooling holes.
[OT The other Eleven (18) is David Brough's ex-Border Reivers CSH 190]
Bruno also raced the Lotus Eleven at Silverstone in the International Daily Express Trophy Meeting on 14 September 1957. He took part in the Sports Cars Under 1500 cc race entered by Scuderia Madunina. His racing number was (16) again and George Phillips has caught him at the start behind John Dalton (23) in his Le Mans 1957 Eleven.
https://library.revs...ion=p17257coll1