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Post by David Lawson on Jul 23, 2012 3:05:37 GMT -5
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Post by Mark Huber on Jul 23, 2012 9:26:02 GMT -5
David,
As always, your photographs are excellent. Thank you very much. Do you know anything as to the history of either of those cars? Is one of them the rebuilt R4?
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Post by David Lawson on Jul 23, 2012 17:18:31 GMT -5
Mark
R4 is one of the two cars. The driver with the blue helmet is driving R4 but I can't remember what the other car is - as a guess it could be the ex-Cedric Selzer rebuild.
David
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Post by Chris Wright on Jul 23, 2012 18:16:47 GMT -5
Hi David and Mark, if it is Cedric Selzer's F1 Lotus 25, this car is R5, and was driven by Jimmy Clark, winning non-championship races in 1963 but was then written-off in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa by Trevor Taylor. Jimmy's mechanic, Cedric Selzer, got permission to salvage bits of the car ( as souvenirs), but then 20 or so years later decided to rebuild it. He certainly succeeded in a labour of love, and the car looks and sounds quite superb.
Car#29
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Post by Mark Huber on Jul 23, 2012 19:47:54 GMT -5
Thanks guys.. I did some browsing and found this reference to another Lotus 25 chassis/car on the Ultimate Car Page: Quote: Chassis R7 was the final Lotus 25 constructed. It was only used once by Team Lotus when Trevor Taylor drove it to 8th in the South African Grand Prix late in 1963. Ahead of the next season R7 was sold to Reg Parnell, who fitted the car with a BRM V8 engine. During the 1964 he entered the Lotus 25 for Mike Hailwood with a sixth at Monaco as the best result. After one more outing for Hailwood in 1965, R7 was subsequently raced by Innes Ireland and once by Chris Amon. Reliability was very poor and only Ireland managed to reach the finish. He scored a 10th at the Dutch Grand Prix.
In 1969 the last Lotus 25 was acquired by the late Tom Wheatcroft, who had it completely restored to its Team Lotus configuration complete with Climax engine. Chassis R7 has since been displayed in his fabulous Donington Grand Prix Collection museum. During a rare outing, it is seen here on the Hall & Hall stand of the 2009 Retromobile show.Unquote: You can find pictures of R4 and R7 here: www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/267/Lotus-25-Climax.htmlI'm no authority on these cars, and I note that R7 as pictured on the Ultimatecarpage website has #2 (for what that's worth). Whatever the case may be, it's wonderful that several of these spectacular cars have been so lovingly restored and are shown in public.
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Post by David Lawson on Jul 24, 2012 1:51:21 GMT -5
Thanks for the info re R7, I hadn't realised that this was the ex-Donington Collection car. The car is certainly no longer in the museum as it has been sold off along with many of the other nicer and rarer cars that Tom had collected over the years. Little did I know when I saw R7 at Silverstone and Brands Hatch that I had seen the car 20 years ago at the Donington Collection as this very poor old picture shows. I forgot to mention in my first post that it is long time Team Lotus employee Bob Dance who is polishing the engine cover in the third picture from the end of my photos. David
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Post by Mark Huber on Jul 25, 2012 9:11:50 GMT -5
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Post by David Lawson on Jul 25, 2012 9:27:32 GMT -5
You are too late Mark even if you could afford the astronomical price, John Bowers bought R4 from the Dawson estate and he allows the car to be run in several race meetings each year.
I was quite flattered beacuse a couple of years ago when R4 ran at Silverstone for the first time in forty odd years I took a picture of the car at Becketts corner and John Bowers asked my permission for it to be included in a folio he keeps on the car.
David
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