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      • Compact Disk- an optional extra? Lotus Seven -The Front Disc brake  
      • Consultancy and or Manufacture: Case Study 1. SUV’s – Reaching the Summit or Over the Hill?
      • Contemporaries and Peers 1: Lola, Mallock, Elva, Kieft, Ginetta & Terrier
      • Contemporaries and Peers 2: Frank Costin
      • Contemporaries and Peers 3: Williams and Pritchard
      • Contemporaries and Peers 4: Pluses and Minuses; Four and Against: Colin Chapman /Lotus vs Morgan
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      • Designers – Eric Broadley
      • Designers – Gordon Coppuck, McLaren, Yardley and the Y fronts
      • Designers – Gordon Murray
      • Designers – Rory Byrne
      • Designers – Sir Patrick Head
      • Desingers – Maurice Philippe
      • Drive My Car: 100 Objects that made Colin Chapman and Lotus
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      • The Avengers and The Prisoner: Episode 2, Take 2
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      • The Flying Finns: The Lotus Mk.VIII’s [1954]
      • The Fine Art of Motorsport
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      • George Best and Lotus: Perfection the Goal
      • Getting Groovy in the 1960’s: Lotus and Slot Car Racing
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      • Historic Sponsor Series: Firestone: On the Rim of Success
      • Historical Origins; Chapman/Lotus: Parts 1 & 2
      • Horse and Carriage/Form and Function: Lotus 18
      • Icons Part 1: Colin Chapman
      • Icons Part 2: Ettore Bugatti
      • Icons Part 3: Sir William Lyons
      • Imitation; The sincerest form of Flattery
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      • Lotus 79:”May the Force be with you”
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      • Lotus Seven: An Aesthetic Appreciation
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      • Louts 19 ‘The Full Monte’
      • The Hills, Spills and Thrills
      • The Lotus Europa Special [GKN 47 D] :Meteoric & Metamorphosis
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      • The Lotus Seven Series One 1957-1960
      • The Lotus Type 47& 62: Group Dynamics
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      • Patently Obvious: The Lotus 25
      • Peaks and Troughs [The Long and Winding Road Series]
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      • Pop Art: Lotus 1 [“Oil on Canvass?” 45 x 56 inches] by Gerald Laing.
      • Power Plant
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      • Pursuit of Perfection: Lotus 108 Recycled
      • Raymond Loewy 1893-1986: The Consummate All Consuming Designer
      • Scale Model Car Reviews: Lotus Super Seven 1957-1973/ Caterham Super Seven 1973
      • Scale Model Car Reviews: Morgan 4/4 Series II
      • Scalextric: Slot on the Landscape: Electric Car Racing from the National Grid
      • Seven Sales to the Sunset
      • Seven Wonders of the World: A Celebration of the Seven and the Engines used
      • Shipping a Classic Car
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      • Tail Fins: Lotus o’ Nine Tails: The Lotus Mk.IX [1955]-No lash up!
      • Tail Fins: Lotus o’ Nine Tails: The Lotus Mk.IX [1955]-No lash up!
      • Taking Sides: Lotus Racing Cars: Profile and Presentation
      • The Speed of Light
      • The Sprint “Elan with more dash”
      • The Works
      • To Monaco via Monte Carlo – the Cooper Monaco v Lotus 15 &19
      • Tracks Across America: Riverside
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      • Types 30 & 40
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      • What a drag it is …
      • Wheelchairs: Club chairs to Club Racers-Breuer and Chapman’s tube frame structures
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        • Ferodo: How Chapman was arrested whilst braking and entering (a corner)
        • Firestone Ford, Form and Function in F1
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January 2020

Chapman and Can-Am: Big Bangers and Even Bigger Bucks: An Opportunity Missed?

Firestone

Logo on Lotus

Tail Fins: Lotus o’ Nine Tails: The Lotus Mk.IX [1955]-No lash up!

The Flying Finns: The Lotus Mk.VIII’s [1954]

Lotus 38: The Special Relationship

Previous Articles

  • Articles
    • “Car” Survey 2012
    • Aesthetic Analysis: Car Designers
    • Aesthetic Analysis: Cistalia 202GT
    • Avengers and The Prisoner: Episode 2, Take 2
    • Badge Engineering
    • Body Shapes
    • Cam Followers
    • Car Designers, Entrepreneurs, Engineers of the Century
    • Carnaby Street
    • Caterham Cars
    • Chapman & Brunel
    • Chapman and Can-Am: Big Bangers and Even Bigger Bucks: An Opportunity Missed?
    • Chapman, Costin & the Vanwall
    • Chassis Design
    • Classic Cars: Lotus Interpretation
    • Colin Chapman: A Man of Note
    • Colin Chapman, Lotus & British Aviation
    • Colin Chapman: Wheeler-Dealer of Warren Street?
    • Compact Disk- an optional extra? Lotus Seven -The Front Disc brake  
    • Consultancy and or Manufacture: Case Study 1. SUV’s – Reaching the Summit or Over the Hill?
    • Contemporaries and Peers 1: Lola, Mallock, Elva, Kieft, Ginetta & Terrier
    • Contemporaries and Peers 2: Frank Costin
    • Contemporaries and Peers 3: Williams and Pritchard
    • Contemporaries and Peers 4: Pluses and Minuses; Four and Against: Colin Chapman /Lotus vs Morgan
    • Contemporaries and Peers 5: Marcos
    • Context and Social History 1
    • Cosworth DFV V8
    • Delorean
    • Design Decades 1948 -1959
    • Design Decades 1970 – 1979
    • Design Heroes: Buckminster Fuller
    • Design Heroes: Jean Prouve [1901-1984]
    • Evora Borealis: The Northern Lights [Lotus Evora 410]
    • F Gordon Crosby
    • Fine Art of Motor Sport
    • The Fine Art of Motorsport
    • Fine Art: Michael Turner
    • Formula Junior – No Minor Achievement
    • Geoff Goddard
    • Getting Groovy in the 1960’s: Lotus and Slot Car Racing
    • The Hills, Spills and Thrills
    • Historic Sponsor Series: Firestone: On the Rim of Success
    • Icons Part 1: Colin Chapman
    • Icons Part 2: Ettore Bugatti
    • Icons Part 3: Sir William Lyons
    • James Bond & Lotus
    • John Ross Motor Racing Archive: Lotus
    • Leslie Ballamy
    • Llandow
    • London and Lotus: The Epicentre of Post War British Motor Racing
    • Lotus & Popular Culture
    • Lotus & Sponsorship
    • Lotus & The Avengers
    • Lotus 108 & 110
    • Lotus Cortina
    • Lotus Elan and the adverts
    • The Lotus Mk.VI: Six of the Best
    • Lotus Originals
    • Lotus Seven: An Aesthetic Appreciation
    • Louts 19 ‘The Full Monte’
    • Lotus 38: The Special Relationship
    • Lotus 47
    • Pat Dennis’ Mk. VI – POP 444
    • Patently Obvious: The Lotus 25
    • Peter Hutton
    • Peaks and Troughs [The Long and Winding Road Series]
    • Pop Art: Lotus 1 [“Oil on Canvass?” 45 x 56 inches] by Gerald Laing.
    • Power Plant
    • Progress Chassis Company
    • Raymond Loewy 1893-1986: The Consummate All Consuming Designer
    • Scale Model Car Reviews: Lotus Super Seven 1957-1973/ Caterham Super Seven 1973
    • Scale Model Car Reviews: Morgan 4/4 Series II
    • Seven Sales to the Sunset
    • Tracks Across America: Riverside
    • Types 30 & 40
    • The Works