scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 11:55 AM |
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Ever seen one of these?
I've just been having a look through the Precott Hill Climb site and spotted this, it's got a 7 front end but covered rear wheels, anyone
seen one before? Any ideas what it is?
 
What is this?
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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mookaloid
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 12:05 PM |
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I dunno but it has very unusual front suspension
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JonBowden
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 12:05 PM |
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Looks like a Lotus 6 to me
Jon
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white130d
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 12:08 PM |
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Lotus Mark 6
According to the Jeremy Coulter book the Lotus and Caterham Sevens, a Collector's Guide, page 11.
Lotus Mark 6 approx 1953/5
David
[Edited on 31/3/05 by white130d]
"There's only 2 things that money can't buy, and that's true love and home grown tomatos" Guy Clark
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 01:38 PM |
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Ah I see, I didn't think the front end looked quite right but hadn't spotted the different suspension.
That's some serious positive camber in your pic David!
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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white130d
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 01:48 PM |
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try to imagine this
kind of front suspension with coils instead of a leaf spring...
they do induce alot of pos camber...
David.
"There's only 2 things that money can't buy, and that's true love and home grown tomatos" Guy Clark
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 02:43 PM |
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Thats the car that chapman designed before the seven. Its front beam axle was a ford item split and hinged in the middle! The engine is a side valve
flat top.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 03:50 PM |
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mangogrooveworkshop is spot on the Lous 6 had a Ford Pop 93e axle cut in half and converted into 2 swing axles. ---- same as front of Hilman
Imp.
The other pic is another almost identical Lotus 6 but because the exhaust comes out on the right I think it has an MG 1250cc OHV Xpag Engine
engine.
The car in the first picture with the exhaust on the left will be powered by an 1172cc 93e or 100e Ford sidevalve or a puka OHC all alloy
Coventry-Climax unit.
[Edited on 31/3/05 by britishtrident]
[Edited on 31/3/05 by britishtrident]
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white130d
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 04:05 PM |
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According to the book I referenced, UPE 9 was owned by Graham Nearn and at time of print was in the Caterham showroom. I don't know if this is
still true, but may be...
D.
"There's only 2 things that money can't buy, and that's true love and home grown tomatos" Guy Clark
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Peteff
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 05:27 PM |
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Must be a pig to get at the rear wheels if you have a flat  .
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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andyps
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| posted on 31/3/05 at 08:46 PM |
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Almost certainly the Lotus 6 owned and driven by Steve Cropley, Editor in Chief of Autocar magazine.
Andy
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
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