The Classic Team Lotus Special Projects Department – Prop. R. Dance Esq. – has completed a very special restoration; the Austin Seven last driven by Colin Chapman in 1981, when daughter Jane was married.
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Classic Team Lotus is delighted to congratulate Andrew Beaumont on last weekend’s victory in the ultimate race of the Passion for Speed series, held in South Africa, at the Killarney International Raceway.
Classic Team Lotus spent five years restoring 72/5; happily Emerson’s reunion with this special Lotus is on film.
A Lotus 33 is being modelled in solid silver.
Jim Clark’s 1967 Lotus 38 has won the Royal Automobile Club Restoration Award 2019.
Nick Fennell’s Lotus type 38 is in the final three for the RAC Historic Awards Restoration of the Year.
Classic Team Lotus is proud to have run the 1985 Portuguese GP winning Lotus type 97T/2 at last weekend’s Ayrton Senna tribute in Sao Paulo.
Jochen Rindt, the posthumous 1970 F1 World Champion with Team Lotus, was a national hero of Austria.
A special Lotus Eleven – especially for George Barber – has been restored to its period specification when it was a front cover car, back in the Fifties.
Classic Team Lotus customers made the Goodwood Revival as busy as ever, with seven cars across three races.
A great image from the Jim Endruweit archive, captioned by Jim as the 'Indefatigueable Bob Dance (Lotti)'.
A fabulous model of the Lotus type 72 has been scratch-built in solid silver.
From Motorsport December 1956, showing how things were for the nascent Team Lotus, back then.
Classic Team Lotus has enjoyed having two very special Lotus road cars in the Raceshop, recently.
