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[thebullet]

Hi all, my grandad owned a Lotus Eleven as a road car back in the day, he sold it and really want to know where it is now, all we have is the reg number which is RNP 735

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!

[Doug Nye]

Dial up Historic Lotus Register on the internet and contact Victor Thomas there, the Lotus 11 Registrar. He knows more about the model and the individual cars than anyone else can possibly invent, though several people have tried... I am sure Victor can tell you which car this was, and whether or not it has survived in some form.

DCN

[thebullet]

Thanks for the helpful reply, I will do that!

[raceannouncer2003]

Found this:

http://regarchive.com/oldplate/RNP735

Was your granddad's name Barrington?

Vince H.

[thebullet]

When I click the link nothing is shown other than where it was first registered... but yes! Keith Barrington

Edited by thebullet, 17 May 2012 - 21:00.

[packapoo]

Fantastic.
TNF took all of what - 30 minutes - to resolve this?

[thebullet]

How did you know his second name was Barrington? you must be looking at a different link

cheers guys.

[Charles Helps]

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.

[Rupertlt1]

Photo here:

 

https://library.revs...243/default.jpg

 

Silverstone 27 July 1957

 

RGDS RLT

[Charles Helps]

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