Lotus Period Pictures

[jep]

Look steel centres to me.....delivery wheels as a shortage of alloys? Not uncommon, 340R had delivery wheels, replaced after a few months.

Justin

[Mark Blanchard]

[Mark Blanchard]

[Mark Blanchard]

Chapman giving instruction at Zandvoort 1969

[Bravo73]

“Drive faster, you old fool”. 

[Mark Blanchard]

[Mark Blanchard]

Knightsbridge, 1979.

[jerzybondov]

Love the dude doing a double take!

 

[yeller77]

No parking? No problem!  

[ChrisJ]

B&C M100 launch day

My car & @The Ferrett - same day (I think)

[exeterjeep]

Not many M100's to be seen.

[ChrisJ]

I think they only had one, we all went out in it - only time I've been in an M100.

Club Lotus (Surrey) invite.

[exeterjeep]

Andrew Ferguson's gold Eclat at the Club Team Lotus do at Post House hotel Norwich, Rescanned it for better quality. Taken just 3 weeks before Chapman died in 1982. Did post this in a smaller 4 panel selection some time ago.

[Bibs]

From Morris Downton on LinkedIn... 1982.

[ChrisJ]

Great looking colour scheme on the Excel.

[Mark Blanchard]

[Mark Blanchard]

Jim Clark testing the new Lotus 56 in 1968.

 

[Kimbers]

From Dads good friend Alan Nobbs.

[ramjet]

On 12/01/2022 at 22:12, jonwat said:

I still remember driving home in my Europa to hear on the BBC news he'd died. Shed a tear I did 😪

Here's some of my pictures from an '94 factory tour

 

My S4 may have been being built when you did your tour. It's a 1994 Malaysian delivered car and I noticed the Yellow Esprit in the second to last photo has the narrower number plate plinth like my S4 had as well.

[Bibs]

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/from-the-archive/archive-day-1979

[Mark Blanchard]

Jim Clark trying to keep the flawed Lotus 40 on the road.

It was known as the Lotus 30 with 10 more mistakes.

The chassis was later used in the Europa and further developed for the Esprit.

[Mark Blanchard]

Emerson Fittipaldi in 1972 at the Austrian GP.

[mg4lotus]

"like"

This is the picture to show when people start to query Evora tyre sizes and being small on their rims.

[Bibs]

[Bibs]

Late eighties/early nineties.