The only un-raced Lotus?
#1
Posted 18 November 2008 - 20:14
#3
Posted 18 November 2008 - 20:19
I'm thinking of the 64 and the 96.
#4
Posted 18 November 2008 - 20:25
#5
Posted 18 November 2008 - 20:46
#6
Posted 18 November 2008 - 20:52
#7
Posted 18 November 2008 - 20:57
There is also the Type 86.
The Type 88 never raced in period but has now.
#8
Posted 18 November 2008 - 21:03
#9
Posted 18 November 2008 - 21:13
#11
Posted 18 November 2008 - 22:16
Clark was supposed to test the 57 F2 car in April 1968. The equally unraced 58 was developed from that.
Another unbuilt one was the 67 - a proposed Tasman car.
Did the 68 (an F5000 prototype for the 70) ever race? I don't recall it doing so.
#12
Posted 18 November 2008 - 22:29
#13
Posted 19 November 2008 - 02:15
Edit: Mark A already pointed it out above, I didn't realize...
#14
Posted 19 November 2008 - 04:01
Correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to have read somewhere that the 68 was used by Mario Andretti at Sebring in December, 1969. It was the prototype 70. The 68 was rebuilt as a 70 and used by George Follmer in 1970.Originally posted by Vitesse2
Did the 68 (an F5000 prototype for the 70) ever race? I don't recall it doing so.
Edit: Just checked Allen Brown's fine site, and he lists the 68 as I recalled above.
Tom
#15
Posted 19 November 2008 - 08:43
#16
Posted 19 November 2008 - 13:37
Were a couple of 42s modified to run with a 5-litre Ford V* for early F5000 by Jock Russell and Robs Lamplough??
#17
Posted 19 November 2008 - 13:38
Were a couple of 42s modified to run with a 5-litre Ford V8 for early F5000 by Jock Russell and Robs Lamplough??
#18
Posted 19 November 2008 - 16:35
Originally posted by bill patterson
What about the Type 42? The 42F raced but the original 42 never did I believe
Were a couple of 42s modified to run with a 5-litre Ford V8 for early F5000 by Jock Russell and Robs Lamplough??
No they were 43s - ex-BRM H-16 engined F1 cars
#19
Posted 20 November 2008 - 11:37
Mike B
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#20
Posted 20 November 2008 - 12:43
Surely it would have been easier to get a Magnette box and bolt it in, like in the Sabakat?
Sorry I didn't catch up with you the other night, Mike. Some other time, perhaps?
#21
Posted 20 November 2008 - 23:34
The motorshow car had also had all the welds on the chassis filed and polished down so its structural strength was in question too. Lovely piece of history and it would be nice to see it spruced up and available for display again.
Enjoyed the DD auction very much the mood seemed very up beat to me.
Regards Mike B
#22
Posted 21 November 2008 - 01:08