This Lotus 23B sports-racing classic is offered here direct from XX??? Many???? Years preservation and display in a Scandinavian museum. The car is offered here complete with FIA Historic documentation, the Identity Form having first been issued as long ago as 1988. It cites what was then the last restoration of the car as having been carried out as long ago as 1981. The lovely little 1100cc Lotus Type 23 sports-racing car was introduced for the 1962 racing season as a rear-engined derivative of the 1960-61 big-engined Lotus Type 19 in combination with experience gained in the rear-engined single-seater Lotus 20/21/22 designs of 1961-62. The Lotus 23 was an immediate success in the small-capacity class of national and International sports-racing car competition not only in the British home market but also virtually throughout the countries of Europe, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The Lotus 23 rapidly became one of the Lotus marque’s biggest-selling purebred racing cars, and it was not long before alternative engines were being fitted, as small as a 750cc Coventry Climax unit in one chassis intended to run at Le Mans – but prevented from doing so in favour of the rival French home-based marques by some celebrated scrutineering ‘shennanigans’ – and as complex as the amazing air-cooled 12-cylinder ‘Rotorvic’. But between these extremes the most common and most successful option was elevation of the Lotus 23 1100 to the Lotus 23B 1600 with Lotus-Ford twin-cam power installed. Jim Clark led the 1962 ADAC 1,000 Kilometres sports car classic at the Nurburgring for many miles in the prototype such car, humbling the might of the works Ferrari team and Lightweight E-Type Jaguars before being overcome by fumes from a broken exhaust pipe, losing control of the car and crashing mildly. Lotus 23Bs went on to achieve Champion status in almost every market in which they were sold and every racing arena in which they competed. This example is recorded as having been campaigned in the German Oldtimer Grand Prix meeting at the Nurburgring since as early as 1988 and it is also listed on the FIA documentation provided with it as having run at Salzburg, Montlhery, Zolder and Donington Park. As offered here the car is ????? ANYTHING MORE TO ADD????
This Lotus 23B sports-racing classic is offered here direct from XX??? Many???? Years preservation and display in a Scandinavian museum. The car is offered here complete with FIA Historic documentation, the Identity Form having first been issued as long ago as 1988. It cites what was then the last restoration of the car as having been carried out as long ago as 1981. The lovely little 1100cc Lotus Type 23 sports-racing car was introduced for the 1962 racing season as a rear-engined derivative of the 1960-61 big-engined Lotus Type 19 in combination with experience gained in the rear-engined single-seater Lotus 20/21/22 designs of 1961-62. The Lotus 23 was an immediate success in the small-capacity class of national and International sports-racing car competition not only in the British home market but also virtually throughout the countries of Europe, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The Lotus 23 rapidly became one of the Lotus marque’s biggest-selling purebred racing cars, and it was not long before alternative engines were being fitted, as small as a 750cc Coventry Climax unit in one chassis intended to run at Le Mans – but prevented from doing so in favour of the rival French home-based marques by some celebrated scrutineering ‘shennanigans’ – and as complex as the amazing air-cooled 12-cylinder ‘Rotorvic’. But between these extremes the most common and most successful option was elevation of the Lotus 23 1100 to the Lotus 23B 1600 with Lotus-Ford twin-cam power installed. Jim Clark led the 1962 ADAC 1,000 Kilometres sports car classic at the Nurburgring for many miles in the prototype such car, humbling the might of the works Ferrari team and Lightweight E-Type Jaguars before being overcome by fumes from a broken exhaust pipe, losing control of the car and crashing mildly. Lotus 23Bs went on to achieve Champion status in almost every market in which they were sold and every racing arena in which they competed. This example is recorded as having been campaigned in the German Oldtimer Grand Prix meeting at the Nurburgring since as early as 1988 and it is also listed on the FIA documentation provided with it as having run at Salzburg, Montlhery, Zolder and Donington Park. As offered here the car is ????? ANYTHING MORE TO ADD????
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