Lotus Eleven

I photographed this car at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

This Lotus Eleven was in the paddock, but it didn't compete at the meeting. The Lotus Eleven, with body designed by Frank Costin, was produced from 1956 to 1958 and was fitted with a variety of engines, chiefly the 1,098cc Coventry Climax FWA and the 1,172cc Ford 4-cylinder engines. Around 270 cars were built in that time. I don't have much information about this particular car except that it has, or at least at one time had, a Coventry Climax 1,460cc engine. The DVLA, incidentally, now has no record of the 47 KML number plate.