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I believe so yes. Ford supplied Lotus with 1200 delux shells in white or primer ( not sure) June 65 was the last of the A frame cars (as aerflow models)
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Nope. I had a mk1 2.0 GTXLR with trick suspension and no brakes. Great car.
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Sorry to highjack but I have fond memories of a 1300 Mk2 Capri, I reckon because of the lightweight engine set further back it handled virtually on par with an Elan I once owned, I drove it to the South of France and back withtwo little kids in the back, the following year I did the same down to Northern SPain in a 2 litre 'S' Y reg 5 speed box etc but I still reckoned the 1300 went through roundabouts better!
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A friend of mine had a 3.0 GTXLR. Nice car. Bag of cement in the rear to help it handle better (I kid you not!). I concur with Zef on the Lotus Cortina's. Weren't they all white with the official green stripe. Rob. |
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The works rally cars were white and green but when the Cortina GT was dropped as a rally car the works Mk 1 Lotus Cortina rally cars were all red The Mk 2 works rally cars were a variety of colours (even gold) including the traditional white and green I need to get out more.... |
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Also had a Lotus Cortina 'D' plate about 1970/71. It had been resprayed black but retained the dark green stripe. Remember driving it to Paris a few times on the old RN1 (before the Autoroutes were there!) and thank God it had a sump guard. Think it had a Kent reg No DKK(?)xxxD - Often wondered what happened to it? |
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I know the dates dont match. Just thought I had read an article of that mentioned a cortina being done up in JPS colours for some sort of demo run or event... Must have been imagining it. :confused: I know about the Alan Mann cars. Proper gold in the pain on those |
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A new site http://www.world-of-cortina.co.uk/ has a picture of the Whitmore/Sears Mann car at what it says is Nurburgring 65. This shows a white car with a 64 registration but is it the new leafspring KPU392C in disguise prior to painting red or is it still a 64 A frame car? However, no guarantee there either - the first picture on page 2 of the interesting Vic Elford feature on the same site is not of VE in a works car but of Roger Clark in his private GT and some other VE pictures are wrongly-captioned! |
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All other 64-66 works rally cars may have a particular identity and registration number linked to a particular driver for an extended period but were routinely re-shelled so the odd one that "survives" seems unlikely to be "original" any more than some of the "ex-works" Escorts that are about now. Are we any further towards helping the first poster ref the ex-Alan Mann car KPU384C? KPU392C is accepted as "original" in shell etc and if the true 65 cars appeared quite late into 65 and were retired at the end of the year, it looks as if KPU384C was the second of two 65 cars. If the numbers were actually rotated around more than 2 shells in 65, it would raise questions about 392's provenance and that isn't queried. There are few events and a fairly short timescale involved. KPU390C then seems to appear on 66 Whitmore car |
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I have an Alan Mann liveried Lotus Cortina which carries on its FIA papers the reg KPU 393C although sadly the V5 documents have a different reg. The car used to be campaigned by Tony and Peter Lanfranchi and laterly Whizzo Williams took Tony's seat when he wasnt able to race due to his ultimately fatal illness.
I havent driven it yet but wil be at Castle Combe on Easter Monday so I cannot tell yo what its like but I have high hopes. Zeferally is currently casting his magic spanner over it! |
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I'd imagine the lack of history regarding 65-66 safari cars is because they didn't win !
reliability seems to have been the reason for success earely mid 60's which is exactly why the GT's where successful and the Lotus not so. MK2 LC's where available in any colour as the shell was as the 2 door GT and built at Ford, with the exception of AM cars I don't think any cortinas left Lotus in any colour other than white my 'magic spanners' are resting today, as my 'magic back' isn't feeling so magic after shifting 2 tonnes of ferrous tat on Saturday ! |
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