Colin Chapman built approximately 100 Lotus VIs between 1953 and 1957. Does
that make it a production car? If so, then what about the Lotus Eleven.
Lotus built 270 Lotus Elevens, all of which were capable of being driven on
the road. Many (perhaps as much as one-half) were actually road registered
and driven routinely on the public roads. Should they be put in the
production based Group 3 or 1 depending on engine size? What about the Lotus
23, of which 130 copies were made by the factory [and 200 survive ;-) ]?
What about the Lotus 26R and 47, or for that matter the Lotus 22 Formula
Juniors that were sold with fenders?
I think SVRA moves down a slippery and untimately wrong road when
they start to classify cars based upon perceived performance. One of the
reasons SVRA became the largest vintage racing body was because they had
correct and legitimate and historically based classifications. Now we are
talking about doing away with them in favor of performance based
classifications?
The small bore class has been a mainstay of SVRA since its creation
in 1982. Group One guys need to speak up before your group disappears into a
hodgepodge cars
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