- 1. RE: Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: "Ted Rodgers" <Rodgers356@classic.msn.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 97 03:41:26 UT
- There are a number of Lotus 23 replicas out there. Many even have original serial numbers :) -- From: owner-vintage-race@autox.team.net on behalf of PaceCars@aol.com Sent: Thursday, August 28, 1997 9
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- 2. Re: Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: David Laver <dlaver@ms.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 11:16:17 +0100 (BST)
- Faithfull in every last detail ! I can remember a Jenks fable about a fellow buying a kit of parts for a Buggati 35 with good history, restoring it a bit at a time with some sensible mods for racing
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- 3. Re: Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: Mike & Jaye Rosen <mra@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 08:27:39 -0400
- As the old saying goes; "of the 200 (?) Lotus 23s constructed, only 300 are known to exist" Mike
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- 4. Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: "Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 15:27:00 -0500
- Dick Carlson agreed: Does anyone know of any effort toward building a replica of the 30? Tony
- /html/vintage-race/1997-08/msg00172.html (7,211 bytes)
- 5. Re: Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: "Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 22:03:44 -0500
- Erik Berg responded: Yeah, I'm thinking sort of a "Westfield" approach, looks the same but a good ol' overdone tube frame and provision for propriatory "corners", 'vette or something, a junkyard For
- /html/vintage-race/1997-08/msg00186.html (7,511 bytes)
- 6. Re: Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: PaceCars@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 12:41:46 -0400 (EDT)
- Don't know of Lotus 30 replica, but there is a pretty good Lotus 23 replica out there (there are or were two, but one is being imported into the US). I can find contact info if anyone is interested.
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- 7. Re: Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: PaceCars@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:31:10 -0400 (EDT)
- If you wanted to do an accurate replica, you would need to put a set of hinges in the middle of the chassis ;>). A friend of mine drove a 30 at the Road America 500 and said it felt positively deadly
- /html/vintage-race/1997-08/msg00200.html (7,363 bytes)
- 8. Re: Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Hayes <hayes@mediaone.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 21:06:12 -0400
- Interestingly enough, a discussion on the "strength" of Chapman's race cars has been going on on the "Alfa Digest" of all places. Here was my posting on one point: To: AlfaDigest <alfa-digest@mailgat
- /html/vintage-race/1997-08/msg00201.html (8,681 bytes)
- 9. Re: Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: Jarl&Carol <deboer@pacbell.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 17:06:53 -0700
- Apropos the comment that the Lotus 40 was simply a 30 with 10 additional It's said that it took such a long time to design the 40 since all the obvious places to make mistakes had already been attend
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- 10. Re: Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Hill" <jrhill1@facstaff.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 22:11:48 -0600
- Having seen a Lotus 30 in action at Riverside in the hands of one J. Clark lo these many years ago, I also remember it as a very beautiful, but woefully uncompetitive car. Jim Hayes' comment reminds
- /html/vintage-race/1997-08/msg00203.html (8,039 bytes)
- 11. Re: Lotus 30/40 (score: 1)
- Author: "Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:53:42 -0500
- I browsed Anthony Pritchard's "Lotus: the sports racing cars" for more about the 30/40 and ran across the reference to Chapman's disagreement with chief designer (at the time) Len Terry over the back
- /html/vintage-race/1997-08/msg00206.html (8,081 bytes)
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