1955 Lotus Mk X

This car competed in the Louis Vuitton 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's the 1955 Lotus Mk X of Adrian Hall which has a 6-cylinder 1,971cc Bristol engine. Six or seven examples of the Lotus Mk X were built, and it is very similar to the Mk VIII but modified to take the larger Bristol engine that was derived from the pre-war BMW 328. The body of the car was designed by Frank Costin, brother of Mike Costin, who together with Keith Duckworth founded Cosworth Engineering. The programme of the event says that the car is red, and I have a photograph of the car I took the following year when it was red with a white stripe across the body just above where the number '6' is here, so it looks as if the painting of the car took place later than was anticipated.