1962 Lotus 24

This was one of the competitors in the Pre-1966 Grand Prix and Tasman Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the 1962 Lotus 24 of Ric Weiland and has a 4-cylinder inline Coventry Climax 1½ litre engine. Both the Lotus 24 and Lotus 25 were designed for the 1962 racing season, the 25 was the works car and the 24 was mainly intended as a customer car. The works car used the Coventry Climax FWMV engine, as did some of the private entrants in the 24, but the 4 cylinder Coventry Climax FPF was also used in some of those cars. I don't think the Lotus team ever ran a 24 with the 4 cylinder engine, so the problem with the car in the photograph isn't that it's got a 4 cylinder engine, but that it's finished in the Team Lotus livery.