Lotus 20 chassis numbers
#1
Posted 11 February 2011 - 13:41
Ralf
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#2
Posted 11 February 2011 - 14:13
#3
Posted 11 February 2011 - 15:17
http://www.historicl.../Rabagliati.htm
(mind you, he is usually very busy...)
Edited by David Beard, 11 February 2011 - 18:15.
#4
Posted 12 February 2011 - 07:43
I've collected a few numbers over the years. Do you have a specific car in mind?
David, it would be chassis 20-J-892, unfortunately I do not have the frame nr. here.
Ralf
#5
Posted 12 February 2011 - 07:44
Try Duncan Rabagliati?
http://www.historicl.../Rabagliati.htm
(mind you, he is usually very busy...)
Good idea - he would probably know.
Will contact him.
Ralf
#6
Posted 12 February 2011 - 07:47
I believe that was the Reg Armstrong(Ireland) carDavid, it would be chassis 20-J-892, unfortunately I do not have the frame nr. here.
#7
Posted 12 February 2011 - 08:13
Would you have any frame nr. for that car ?
#8
Posted 12 February 2011 - 10:19
#9
Posted 12 February 2011 - 10:27
Ralf
#10
Posted 20 November 2011 - 16:55
Relevant answers maybe credited and used in a forth coming blog.
Thanking you in anticipation of your answers.
#11
Posted 20 November 2011 - 19:16
#12
Posted 20 November 2011 - 20:07
#13
Posted 20 November 2011 - 21:19
I'll see if I can find some more there thanks to you and David
#14
Posted 20 November 2011 - 22:42
#15
Posted 21 November 2011 - 08:07
He bought two 20 at the same time and I do not expect chassis numbers would exist in any race results.
We have looked at Stefans great site, Armstrong is mentioned there, but no chassis nr.
Also the Irish results do not give any more informations.
Better documented are the years after Armstrong, for example under Brian Cullen mostly as Formula Libre car with the bigger engine and bigger rear wheels/tyres.
Ralf
#16
Posted 21 November 2011 - 08:17
#17
Posted 21 November 2011 - 08:44
But I have got the information of the two cars delivered on the same date (14/8/1961) from Duncan Rabagliati.
So, who knows for sure...
He also had a 22 - there is a photo in Edward Fitzgerald´s great book about Donboyne Circuit of Armstrong running the car in the ´65 Leinster Trophy.
Edited by Ralf Pickel, 21 November 2011 - 08:48.
#18
Posted 21 November 2011 - 09:00
I'm sure Eddie Fitzgerald will know more. All I can remember are the body colours which, in Armstrong's case was maroon. Gill's car was immaculately turned out in powder blue.
#19
Posted 21 November 2011 - 09:15
Brian Cullen had the car in white with twin powder blue (or metallic blue - difficult to see) stripes and wheel centres painted in the same colour.
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#20
Posted 21 November 2011 - 09:30
Quite a few names attached with the car.
But lining up everything it might give a decent time line.
I´ll give it a try...
Armstrong
Gill
Popplewell (also driven by Frank Keane when owned by him)
Elliot
Cullen
Edited by Ralf Pickel, 21 November 2011 - 09:34.
#21
Posted 21 November 2011 - 18:41
I think Reg bought both his Lotus 18 and 20 new from Malcolm Templeton and he later bought Malcolm's 22. Reg never really had time to race cars as he had many ongoing business committments and also was still heavily involved with international motor bike racing throughout the 1960s.If Reg Armstrong did acquire two Lotus 20s rather than one, the chances are that the second car was raced in Ireland by Edmund Gill who, like Armstron,g was successful on two wheels before switching to four !
I'm sure Eddie Fitzgerald will know more. All I can remember are the body colours which, in Armstrong's case was maroon. Gill's car was immaculately turned out in powder blue.
Simon Thomas
#22
Posted 21 November 2011 - 18:41
I think Reg bought both his Lotus 18 and 20 new from Malcolm Templeton and he later bought Malcolm's 22. Reg never really had time to race cars as he had many ongoing business committments and also was still heavily involved with international motor bike racing throughout the 1960s.If Reg Armstrong did acquire two Lotus 20s rather than one, the chances are that the second car was raced in Ireland by Edmund Gill who, like Armstron,g was successful on two wheels before switching to four !
I'm sure Eddie Fitzgerald will know more. All I can remember are the body colours which, in Armstrong's case was maroon. Gill's car was immaculately turned out in powder blue.
Simon Thomas
#23
Posted 22 November 2011 - 07:39
#24
Posted 22 November 2011 - 09:49
I've only heard from one source the suggestion that he had twoI think there might be a point that he actually only had one 20 - until proven otherwise, of course.
#25
Posted 22 November 2011 - 09:56
#26
Posted 22 November 2011 - 10:48
There is no logical reason for Armstrong to have had two Lotus 20s at the time.I've only heard from one source the suggestion that he had two
Simon Thomas
#27
Posted 25 November 2011 - 23:12