Goodwoood; '67 F1 cars in action!

I have just come back from The Goodwood Festival Of Speed, and lucky me, there was Dan Gurney, John Surtees, Jack Brabham among others. Also the '67 Eagle and Honda RA300 were driven with anger, and there was the last surviving Lotus 49 on display. I USED my camera:-) Now I know what caught the spectators imagination in those days....... And I know what those cars should sound like, and look like. We're a bit off at the mo! :-) Matt -- Matthew Birger Knutsen Cheek Racing Cars http://www.cheekracing.electra.no

Matt...what do you mean by the *LAST* Lotus 49? There were two of them in Adelaide. Do you mean the last of the *original* cars? -- Best regards, Bruce. ====== The Stunned Mullet........seriously satirical stuff! http://welcome.to/the_stunned_mullet =============================================== >and there was the last >surviving Lotus 49 on display. I USED my camera:-)

> Matt...what do you mean by the *LAST* Lotus 49? There were two of them in > Adelaide. Do you mean the last of the *original* cars? Yes, the one still being as raced in 67...this car is one of the Zandvoort cars. The others are later 49s, either B's, or rebulit back to 49. Matt

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> -- > Best regards, > Bruce. > ====== > The Stunned Mullet........seriously satirical stuff! > http://welcome.to/the_stunned_mullet > =============================================== > >and there was the last > >surviving Lotus 49 on display. I USED my camera:-)

-- Matthew Birger Knutsen Cheek Racing Cars http://www.cheekracing.electra.no

Whew! Yes....I thought that's what you meant. The two in Adelaide were indeed, 'B' models. The original shape, without the front winglets (before the duck-tail rear end) was certainly the nicest of range. -- Best regards, Bruce. ====== The Stunned Mullet........seriously satirical stuff! http://welcome.to/the_stunned_mullet =============================================== >> Matt...what do you mean by the *LAST* Lotus 49? There were two of them in >> Adelaide. Do you mean the last of the *original* cars? >Yes, the one still being as raced in 67...this car is one of the Zandvoort >cars. The others are later 49s, either B's, >or rebulit back to 49. >Matt >> -- >> Best regards, >> Bruce. >> ====== >> The Stunned Mullet........seriously satirical stuff! >> http://welcome.to/the_stunned_mullet >> =============================================== >> >and there was the last >> >surviving Lotus 49 on display. I USED my camera:-) >-- >Matthew Birger Knutsen >Cheek Racing Cars >http://www.cheekracing.electra.no

Pete Lovely has a Lotus 49B! He won a historic race in Austraila with it! There is more than one around! buzard

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> I have just come back from The Goodwood Festival Of Speed, and lucky me, > there was Dan Gurney, John Surtees, Jack Brabham among others. Also the > '67 Eagle and Honda RA300 were driven with anger, and there was the last > surviving Lotus 49 on display. I USED my camera:-) > Now I know what caught the spectators imagination in those days....... > And I know what those cars should sound like, and look like. We're a bit > off at the mo! :-) > Matt > -- > Matthew Birger Knutsen > Cheek Racing Cars > http://www.cheekracing.electra.no

> Pete Lovely has a Lotus 49B! He won a historic race in Austraila > with it! There is more than one around! > buzard Mark my words, "49" not "49B" :) Major difference, there are lots, tons of 49Bs, they were sold in '68 -> to anyone who wanted them! Matt

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> > I have just come back from The Goodwood Festival Of Speed, and lucky me, > > there was Dan Gurney, John Surtees, Jack Brabham among others. Also the > > '67 Eagle and Honda RA300 were driven with anger, and there was the last > > surviving Lotus 49 on display. I USED my camera:-) > > Now I know what caught the spectators imagination in those days....... > > And I know what those cars should sound like, and look like. We're a bit > > off at the mo! :-) > > Matt > > -- > > Matthew Birger Knutsen > > Cheek Racing Cars > > http://www.cheekracing.electra.no

-- Matthew Birger Knutsen Cheek Racing Cars http://www.cheekracing.electra.no

This is very true. Pete Lovely's car is the '67 Zandvoort winner. Apparently when Pete Lovely purchased it, Colin Chapman offered to give it a later chassis number (from what by then was a one year 'old' car), so that if he wanted to sell it later, there would be a better market for it! This is as we now know, not untypical of Lotus...... Steve >During the coverage of the Formula Adelaide races, the statement was made it >had only recently been discovered that Pete Lovely's Lotus was infact the >chassis used by Jim Clark at Zandvoort in 1967. I don't know how true this >is.

During the coverage of the Formula Adelaide races, the statement was made it had only recently been discovered that Pete Lovely's Lotus was infact the chassis used by Jim Clark at Zandvoort in 1967. I don't know how true this is.

Lovely ran the car at the Sears Point "F-1 Reunion" in 1997. He has it in the 1968 style, high wing configuration with the whole "Gold Leaf Team Lotus" paint/design scheme. It's really breath taking. I've got some photos of it I could scan if anyone would like to see it.

I have 2 original photos of Jim in the Lotus 49T (2.5 litre) in the Tasmans Series in 1968. :-)