Classic Team Lotus

Team Lotus Type 56

Radical wedge shape, four wheel drive, gas turbine powered Indy car. Controversial and fast; so nearly won first time out in 1968, then effectively banned. 56B was F1 version in 1971.

 

Type No. I.D. Title  Status
56 1 1 sold  
  2 2 sold Works
  3 3 sold Works
  4 4 sold Works
  5 B/1 TL Works

News
49R1 is relaunched at Hethel
49R1 is relaunched at Hethel

The Lotus Type 49 was built and unveiled at Hethel, the home of Lotus, on May 23rd, 1967. Fity-nine years after the historic day Colin Chapman famously drove the Type 49 down the runway at Hethel and ...

CTL saddened by the passing of George Barber
CTL saddened by the passing of George Barber

Classic Team Lotus is deeply saddened by the news that George Barber has died. Mr Barber established the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama; a world class centre of automotive endeavour on...

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