Ford Cortina MK2 (Works Race and Rally cars)

[Anuauto]

Virtually none of this is from contemporary event reports and anyone with access to period weeklies would be able to add a great deal.

CTC12E? Team Lotus 67
CTC13E?
CTC14E

CTC24E 68Alan Mann. Also Team Lotus 67 (P.Hawkins Silverstone
July 67)

KKR451 67 Safari Hughes/? No38 GT 3rd
KKR453 67 Safari Soderstrom/Palm No1? GT
KKR454 67 Safari Bianchi/Greder No9 GT
KKR4?? 67 Safari Simonian/? No11 GT
? 67 Safari No42 GT? (Not the Preston car?)
? 67 Safari Clark/Staepelaere No6 Mk1 Lotus
? 67 Safari Preston/? Lotus (Mk1?) 2nd


? 68 Safari Huth/Grant 2nd
? 68 Safari Preston/?
? 68 Safari Soderstrom/Palm


UVX565E Boreham built racer. 68 Alan Mann (F.Gardner) one
event. Sold 68.

UVX566E 67 Scottish winner, Clark (white/blue) then creased shell
scrapped.

? 67 Shell 4000 (Canada) Clark 1st

UVW924E 67 Acropolis 3rd (Saluki Bronze) Soderstrom/Palm Gp2
67 Gulf 1st O.Andersson/Davenport (Bronze) Gp2
67 cancelled RAC (white/blue-new shell?) Soderstrom/Palm
Gp2.
68 London/Sydney practice car Soderstrom/Palm

? 67 cancelled RAC O.Andersson? (Gp2?)

? 67 cancelled RAC Eric Jackson (Gp2?)

? 2 Group 5 cars 67Gulf (R.Clark and B.Soderstrom)
same 2 Group 5 cars cancelled 67RAC (R.Clark and
G.Hill).

JUM638E 67 cancelled RAC Tony Chappell? (Gp2 car seen at
Lydden rallycross next weekend with works team Gp5 car)

CTC26(or8?)E 68 London-Sydney Soderstrom/Palm
? 68 London-Sydney Clark/O.Andersson
? 68 London-Sydney Harper/?
? 68 London-Sydney Brittan/?
? 68 London-Sydney Jackson/Chambers


MK4/5

NHK344V 3LV6 prototype rally car (loaned to Julian Raymond 1981)
Raymond won Gp1 on 1980 RAC in private Escort RS2000

[Anuauto]

Mk2
68 London-Sydney Marathon cars updated.
Harper car was not works entered (Tecalemit) (but was works built?)
Soderstrom No.38
Clark No48
Brittan No 50
Jackson No73

[cavvy]

Mk2
Harry Firth Australian Rally Championship winner
Jim McKeown

[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.

[fangio]

UVX 565E was sold to Frami Racing (Frans Lubin) in Holland, who ealrier also had one of the Alan Mann Mk 1 cars.

Thers was also a BTW 298B on a Mk 1 for Alan Mann.

[jonners]

Originally Posted by jonners

CTC 24E...appeared in northern championship at Croft with a V6 raced by [?]

Martin Sledmore

[terence]

Only just had a look at this thread,I thought that there might be some interest for you to know that CTC 14E was ,until recently ,owned by A Carter,a Norfolk farmer,whom I ran a restoration company for.The car was bought from Mr G Marshall esq,back in the early 80s,when we took delivery of the car ,it had been brush painted in Maroon/yellow flash.Mechanicaly it was in very good condition,albeit not mobile,After fully gutting the car and stripping the paintwork we were quite supprised at how little damage there was[testamont to the standard of driving in those days?] it was then restored back to its original appearance,Team Lotus -pin stripes etc. Checked over mechanically and rebuilt I dont recall what compression it was running but I do remember using 24 volts to get it running,then a QUICK road test and into The Collection,where it sat for approx 30yrs,I,m not awear of where the car is now though I would be interested to know.I remember the front suspension not being quite as it had left the factory!!

[allenbrown]

Arthur Carter?

[terence]

Arthur Carter was an east Anglian "Gentlemen" Farmer ,whilst I was there he had a car collection which would have rivalled any collection in the country!The collection ranged from BRM to RRoyce,his main interest was in BMC work,s cars Minis-- Big healeys etc.At one point we had 7 works Healeys under one roof!100s,es to the last rally car built for the 67 RAC which did,nt happen because of foot&mouth.Hope thi solves the question.

[Anuauto]

The works-built Mk 4/"5" rally car NHK344V (co-incidently posted recently on another forum).
After Ford loan to Julian Raymond 1981.
To Richard Iliffe, used in BTRDA Championship etc.
To Chris Auker in 1987 (South Yorks or Lincs), used local single-venue rallies.
To someone in the Royal Navy in Portsmouth.
No car tax record since 1988.

[Anuauto]

UVW924E (Soderstrom aborted 67 RAC Rally car) then used (Soderstrom/Palm) on 68 Swedish Rally. (Later, London-Sydney recce car)

[Glyn Jones]

Does anyone have photos of the racing Mkll Cortinas?
I own a 1968 car and would like to replicate the look of the works race cars or possibly an Alan Mann car.

Perhaps you will be kind enough to post some pictures, even if only because they are lovely cars!

Glyn Jones.

[Jost Wildbolz]

i have just aquired the Lotus Cortina MK2 Workscar CTC 14E from the prewowner, and try to leve it as original as possible and to run it as soon as possible in historic events. The car has only 6.400 moöes on the clock, yes racing miles, but is in so original state even the seat of Graham Hill is all there.
I wounder if Gery Mashal having owned this car befor it was aquired by Mr.Carter and sat for over 30 Years in a museum. Is that true anyone has a idea?

[jonners]

Originally Posted by Jost Wildbolz

i have just aquired the Lotus Cortina MK2 Workscar CTC 14E from the prewowner, and try to leve it as original as possible and to run it as soon as possible in historic events. The car has only 6.400 moöes on the clock, yes racing miles, but is in so original state even the seat of Graham Hill is all there.
I wounder if Gery Mashal having owned this car befor it was aquired by Mr.Carter and sat for over 30 Years in a museum. Is that true anyone has a idea?

Jost

The car was then sold at auction and I think it was purchased either by Michael Schryver or Simon Hadfield. I believe that the car was recommissioned by Simon Hadfield at his well known single seater workshop.

Where are you? Does the car have an FVA engine?

Jonners

[Gungebucket]

The 1967 works Ford Cortinas for the RAC rally were equipped with Tecalemit fuel injection. I was the resident engineer for Tecalemit at Boreham at the time .... at the age of 20!. Part of the deal with Tecalemit was that Ford had to give me a car. Henry Taylor pointed at 4 Cortinas and said "which one would you like". There were 3 new standard Cortina twin-cam cars and a GT pushrod development car for the Safari.... this is the one I chose, UHK 329E.

Back to the aborted 1967 RAC rally, all the works cars lost their flywheels on the way back to Boreham! The dyno in use at Boreham at the time had rather a high inertia and, at certain engine speeds, gave the flywheel to crank interface a severe talking to! From then on a slave flywheel was used for testing and replaced before the engine was installed in the car.
Memories memories!

[Jost Wildbolz]

Originally Posted by jonners

Jost

The car was then sold at auction and I think it was purchased either by Michael Schryver or Simon Hadfield. I believe that the car was recommissioned by Simon Hadfield at his well known single seater workshop.

Where are you? Does the car have an FVA engine?

Jonners

Yes it has a FVA engine-the engine with it had installed from the Lotus works 1967. The car is finished restauration and I have testdrive it last saterday on the road/countryside of Zürich/Switzerland. The clutch and gearbox are very rough god for trakracing a bit delicate on normal street running.
I live in Zürich/Witikon/switzerland.
Will do some minor work an the car (The breaks need some more adjustments and other minor things) Sorry about my bad english writing!
The car was not owned by mikel Shreywer nor Simon Headfield-it was owned by Mikel Schrywers brouther Andrew Schrywer.
Hope to here more from You.

Jost Wildbolz

[Jost Wildbolz]

If You whant to contact me my e-mail adress is: jostwildbolz@bluewin.ch

[terence]

Originally Posted by Jost Wildbolz

i have just aquired the Lotus Cortina MK2 Workscar CTC 14E from the prewowner, and try to leve it as original as possible and to run it as soon as possible in historic events. The car has only 6.400 moöes on the clock, yes racing miles, but is in so original state even the seat of Graham Hill is all there.
I wounder if Gery Mashal having owned this car befor it was aquired by Mr.Carter and sat for over 30 Years in a museum. Is that true anyone has a idea?

Sorry this is soooo late but yes,it is absolutly correct.Hope you are enjoying the car.

[Jost Wildbolz]

Hi Terenc,
thanks for late message about the ownership Gerry Marshal of CTC 14E Lotus Cortina FVA Works.
Do You now when this was? I heard he ore somebody has painted the car maroon with yellow flash! Is that right? Anybody now's news about.

Did Gerry Marshal race the car and when and where? Any idea?

With kind regards

I will be aout this year with it yet no plans where may be Dijon/France in spring.



Jost

[GBRM]

Apologies for the delay in responding; have been looking for something else and I came across this so thought best post.

My late Dad bought CTC14E from a Mr K Buckley. At the time the chassis number was G22282, engine number FVA731.

He sold the car to Mr A Carter on the 16th March 1976. The price was £1,642 but he bought a tractor from him for £642, so got a £1,000.

the only place it's mentioned is his Sales Ledger from 1st April 1976 to 31st March 1977 and says it was carried over from the year before but I have that Sales Ledger and have been through it and cannot find it. If that changes I'll let you know.

As for Dad racing the car; I really don't think so. I already have 60 races recorded for him that year and I cannot see when he would have had the chance. Sorry!!

If you want photocopies of the Sales Ledger then let me know.

[pinsx3]

This is all fascinating. I read that Lotus found room in the homologation papers for the FVA -- does anyone know how they did that? Or did they just run in some prototype class? Pete

[a1topdog]

Peter Darley who was the Official Team Lotus photographer told me he used CTC 25C as his run around.

[RogerH]

This is slightly off topic but someone may be able to help.
I'm looking to buy a recently built up Mk2 circuit car that is required to comply to period modifications.
This car has a 5 speed gearbox, Atlas LSD, bigger than standard front discs, larger than standard rear drums and a dry sump. Were these sort of modifications used in period?
Any help on this would be appreciated.

[Jost Wildbolz]

Sorry its very late i do replay but now is better than never.
Yes the works cars had drysump and discbreakes but only front at the rear the drumbreaks where bigger than standart.
The suspension front and rear are very sophisticated, only this three works cars had this suspension and some of the very late works cars MK1 Lotus Cortinas. Gears are strait cut 4 speed only and a lock diff. Engine FVA Ford 1599 ccm 4 valves.
The is a new article in the italien Magazin Januar 2009 "Ruoteclassice" with a lot of fotos me driving the car and some details.
Hope You can find it will give a link from an other Article in USA Lotus page in the internet-it will follow soon

With kind regards


Jost Wildbolz

[Jost Wildbolz]

For people who are interrested in this Works Lotus Cortinas MK2 with 4 Valve FVA engine in it.
There is a link to look at the internet:

http://www.lotus-cortina.com/image.htm ...............ore............

http://www.lotus-cortina.com/photos/.../wildbolz2.htm

With regards and enjoy

Jost Wildbolz