I took this photograph at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.
It's a line-up of historic Lotus cars, but I don't seem to have kept a record of exactly what cars they are. The first car looks like an early Lotus Seven and the second a Lotus 18. The third car is the Lotus Mk III from 1951 which was built to compete in 750 Motor Club racing and therefore had to be based on the Austin 7, using that car's 747cc straight-4 engine. This was the first car to be named a 'Lotus'. The next car is a Lotus Type 14, more commonly known as a Lotus Elite, a car that was produced from 1957 to 1963 and had the 1,216cc Coventry Climax FWE straight-4 engine. At the end of the row is what look like a Lotus Seven Series 3 which was produced from 1968 to 1970. The car in the background is a 1958 Lotus Seven, one of five cars produced that were effectively Le Mans Lotus Elevens with Lotus Seven bodies. This particular car, chassis #421 and registration VGJ4, was at one time owned by Betty Haig who won the National Ladies Hillclimb Championship in 1960 and 1961 with the car which had a 1,460cc Coventry Climax FWB straight-4 engine.
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