Thanks for your posts. I've read most of the books
and forgotten most of what I've read. But this is
a most interesting discussion.
It would be a great web page that would show
cars & Id plates. Wish I was better organized,
I probably have the photos someplace.
Don't think I've ever seen a Lotus Engineering plate.
Steve Shipley
Seattle, WA
DWhitesdJr@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 8/6/00 12:23:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, shiples@home.com
> writes:
>
> << I thought there were three ID plates; Lotus Racing, Lotus
> Components,
> and Lotus Cars. >>
>
> I think Steve hit it on the head when he said "It looks like Seven production
> was accomplished wherever it fit."
>
> There were actually at least four chassis plates used: Lotus Racing, which
> was the chassis plate for the Team cars, plus Lotus Components, Lotus Cars
> and Lotus Engineering. Cars with Lotus Engineering plates were the cars built
> before the production groups were split and Lotus went public. Except for
> some early Series One Sevens, the chassis plates for the Sevens should either
> have a Components or Cars plate. Since the discussion was about a Series Two
> Seven I mentioned only these two plates.
>
> If my memory serves me well, I believe that the Components and Cars plates
> had some variations in them too. I seem to recall that they redid the plates
> as the units or divisions (or whatever they called themselves) moved to
> different locations. This may call for a research project tonight unless
> someone knows how many variations of chassis plates there are. Any comments
> Tony or Pat?
>
> David Whiteside
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