P42 Project 1964 Lotus Cortina: Part 1

P42’s Project Lotus is well and truly underway. Our 1964 Mrk1 LC was a nice road car with a few tweeks and clearly had a lot of money spent on it over the years.

It’s always interesting to see the standard of work carried out when you start taking something to bits… I have to say first impressions are that the standard is mixed! Clearly some ‘no expense’ work has been carried out to an exceptional standard but there is, shall we say, more ‘interesting engineering’ that has been carried out in the past. As a road car, the so called ‘Jim Clark’ suspension set up was basically un-driveable with the front set to rock hard and the back being totally soft and bouncing around all over the shop.

So we are now back to the shell and we will be sending her off for a dip where we can see the true state of the body (does not look bad at this stage), and carry out any repairs which will include plating the enlarged hole made to fit a later 5 speed Quaife gearbox. Then its cage in and off to the painters… up dates to follow !

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