RE: Pic Of The Week: Lotus Cortina

[Mork of Ork]

No interesting pictures of an Espace?

[kainedog]

Mork of Ork said:

No interesting pictures of an Espace?

that looks like a proper weapon, whats under the bonnet?

[saracen02]

Jimmy the King of Cortinas! If he had shut the quarter lights he'd had done even quicker!

[splitpin]

kainedog said:

Mork of Ork said:

No interesting pictures of an Espace?

that looks like a proper weapon, whats under the bonnet?

Espace lightweight replica body and there the resemblance with any totally competent but utterly boring Espace begins and ends.

Maybe we should have another thread () called 'The Most Significant UK Performance Cars of All Time'?

IMHO, this would be very close to the top - one of the first times Ordinary Joes were in with a chance of buying a car that had the ability to wick it after they'd dropped the family off ............ and with the fallback excuse of "it's only a family sized Ford darling!"

Good enough to justify the aggro of taking it to the Lotus Dealer to service the engine and the Ford Dealer for anything else ............ the Ford Dealer was supposed to be able to do both, but only the brave or stupid ever actually believed that (more than the once).

[NHK244V]

kainedog said:

that looks like a proper weapon, whats under the bonnet?

Nothing at all
It was mid engined

[Gary C]

NHK244V said:

Nothing at all
It was mid engined

As I remember it was an FW15 formula one car under the espace style body

[y2blade]

soad said:

Looks like he's giving car an extensive workout - a wheel is up

these cars were like this on corner entry pretty much everywhere

[Mork of Ork]

kainedog said:

that looks like a proper weapon, whats under the bonnet?

Yeah as said it's got a carbon fibre chassis with the FW15C 800bhp V10!

Wiki link

[Legacywr]

I'm new to Pic Of The Week:... but does it always get hijacked like this?

[splitpin]

Legacywr said:

I'm new to Pic Of The Week:... but does it always get hijacked like this?

Huge sigh of relief, for once I'm Not Guilty

Having been an owner myself (albeit Mk2 rather than the Mk1) I rabbited on mostly about the Lotus Cortina.

Truly excellant car, a real groundbreaker for the masses. Epic.

(Whereas that Espace was just a one-off marketing stunt just apeing what Ford had done years earlier with a Trannie - they say plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery)

Edited by splitpin on Monday 3rd October 19:41

[Mork of Ork]

splitpin said:

(Whereas that Espace was just a one-off marketing stunt just apeing what Ford had done years earlier with a Trannie - they say plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery)

Edited by splitpin on Monday 3rd October 19:41

True but it's still an interesting picture of an Espace(shaped object).

How about the Sbarro Espace Spider concept? That's interesting.

[Yellabelly]

Ignoring the pseudo french hijack and getting back to the subject of the thread, here is a photo of my old rally car, it was the Ford Works car which won the 1966 RAC Rally (The Rally of Great Britain). Driver and navigator were Bengt Soderstrom and Gunnar Palm (later to be Hannu Mikkola's co-driver). Bought it in 1967 and rallied it for 3-4 years before moving on to circuit racing.


NVW 239C by ray_blake, on Flickr



NVW 239C by ray_blake, on Flickr

[mybrainhurts]

Ahhhh, Bengt Soderstrom...I remember his gut well..

[iva cosworth]

thought this thread got bumped as it's the anniversary of Jim Clarks death at Hockenheim.

Apparentley not

[Yellabelly]

mybrainhurts said:

Ahhhh, Bengt Soderstrom...I remember his gut well..

He certainly was well padded but with no roll cage or seat belts every bit helps

[Ian_H]

otherman said:

Here's some Jim Clark magic to marvel at. He's the last one through in this clip

As has already been said Jim Clark had passed away nearly 40 years before that video was shot, it is however footage from the Jim Clark Rally which is based in Duns in the Borders and named in his memory. Also, the last car on the video is Barry Johnson driving and Stewart Merry in the co-drivers seat of the ex Petter Solberg Subaru WRC, on landing all four shockers burst and I think one of the fluid reservoirs for the shockers caught fire. Both driver and co-driver were winded on landing and I seem to remember Barry saying he had hurt his back.