[jonners]

There's quite a lot I can add but all my papers are in storage at the moment.

CTC 14E mostly raced by Graham Hill - sold by team Lotus to Brian Robinson. Car now owned by either Michael Schryver or Simon Hadfield???

CTC 24E raced by Jacky Icx for Team Lotus - sold (I believe) to Brian Robinson at same time as CTC 14E but then purchased by Ford who paid Alan Mann to race it pending arrival of the Escort Twin Cam. Sold by Alan Mann (not with an FVA engine - the theory is that all those engines were owned by Ford and only leased to the team) to a friend of mine - Ian Perrett - who used it for sprints - appeared in northern championship at Croft with a V6 raced by [?] - not sure what happened next but I believe Andy Middlehurst had it for a while and he replaced the firewall that had been chopped for the V6 - then went to a chap who spent a lot of time and money on it including the installation of a BDA engine - and then purchased again by Ian Perrett. He allowed me to take a load of photos and he told me that the bodyshell and most of the suspension components were as he remembered when he bought it from Alan Mann. I asked him about the windscreen wipers that point in different directions in Team Lotus days and he said that Alan Mann installed an aircraft wiper motor necessitating some cutting under the dash - he said this was the first thing he checked when he bought it for the second time. He used it for a few hillclimbs (driving to and from on the road....) and then sold it back to Alan Mann - perhaps the best indication of its provenance.

UVX 565E raced in Lotus colours originally (by Lucien Bianchi, amongst others) but was sprayed re and gold when raced by Alan Mann. Was sold to someone in Holland.