This was one of the entrants in the 1950s Drum-Braked Sports Racing Cars race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.
It's the 1955 Lotus Mk IX of Richard Ashmead, one of about 30 of these cars that were built between 1954 and 1955. Several different engines could be provided for the Mk IX - 1½ litre MG and Connaught engines and 2 litre Bristol engines were used, but the one most commonly fitted, as in this car, was the 1,098cc Coventry Climax engine.
On 17 January 2018 I showed a photograph of another Coventry Climax engined Lotus Mk IX, at Oulton Park in 1996.
my father Barry Seed used this lotus in sheffield and had a picture taken by a local newspaper as he used it as he was a postman in the eariy 1960s around 1963/64 often talks about it as he bought it at the time from the chequed flag from band leader chris barber lovely to see it again made his day and year , yours Barrie Seed
ReplyDeleteThanks Barrie - it's interesting to read stories about the earlier lives of these cars.
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