This car took part in the
1950s Sports Car Race Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone
in July 1999.
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It's George Edney's 1955 Lotus
Mk IX, about thirty of which were produced. It could be used with a variety of
engines, most often the 1,100cc Coventry Climax unit, but the programme of the
event says that the engine capacity of this car was 1,498cc. The first Le Mans
24 Hour race contested by Lotus was with a Mk IX in 1955, driven by Colin
Chapman and Ron Flockhart, but the car was disqualified after 12 hours when
Colin Chapman went off the circuit at the Arnage corner into a sandbank and
reversed the car back onto the circuit without getting permission from a
marshall to do so.
The number 33 car next to the Lotus Mk IX is the 1958 Lotus Eleven of Ron Gammons and the number 66 car is the 1959 Lotus 15 of Paul Samuels.
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