Monterey Historic Races - Lotuses
Gracing Sunday's Lotus corral were three Elises. Two were Sunsport Honda B18C conversions. One appeared to be a personal car from Britain. Lotus corral also had a Europa, two Sevens and Renault Sport Spider. The Renault was likely a Sunsport car or a personal car on waivers.
Lotus 23s were very popular and fast as usual. Some detailed pictures of
one being worked on before the race are for my benefit in putting
together my Xanthos 23. My car will not be dry sumped like this
car, which appears to have the Titan pump standard on Formula Fords.
Exhaust and coolant routing is also different. Note Hewland gearbox,
transmission adapter,
clutch cylinder, and coolant and oil overflow catch tanks.
One 23 had an
AIM MyChron3
display and datalogger.
Click on a small image to see the full one.