absmiami
-
Posts
4,791 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Gallery
Everything posted by absmiami
-
Pete Lovely was a race car driver - not a collector - vintage race car collecting was not “a thing” in 1968 … so he would never have agreed to buy a lotus with major race damage - so Chapman repaired R2 - gave it a new chass plate - R11 - and sold it as a new Chass to the unsuspecting Lovely …
-
Here’s where things got weird - R2 suffered major crash damage during the ‘68 season - returned to Team Lotus to be dismantled - or so we thought - was it the car that Oliver wrecked at high speed at the French Grand Prix ? Dunno - does anyone have Doug Nye on speed dial ??
-
R2 was Clark’s Team Lotus ride in 67 - although a race winner - Clark was to run a new 49B in Gold Leaf tobacco livery in ‘68 - so R2 was upgraded and assigned to Jackie Oliver after Clark’s tragic early season death in an FII race …
-
McAllister purchased the car fr Pete Lovely - who bought the car fr Colin Chapman at the end of the ‘68 season - He campaigned the car as a privateer in ‘69 in a simple off-white and blue livery - advertising his Volkswagen dealership - Lovely thought he had purchased chass R11 -
-
It took forty years to sort the individual Lotus 49 chassis histories - this is R2 - owned by Chris MacAllister - history seeps from its mechanical pores - if only cars could talk …
-
Right … there …
-
Back to the show winner - Jimmy Clark sat here…
-
And here’s another old friend … in all my years on this planet— i had never actually seen the Deora …. There it was …
-
Here’s a Lemans winner from 1934 - Oh, Pierre ….
-
Although the field was a little short - due to the storms all week in the southeast - perhaps preventing some entrants from getting to Amelia a day early - the competition for BOS was stiff - here was another candidate … and there was a super Delage coupe that i didn’t - but should have - photographed …
-
Here’s the winner - an old friend - a long story …
-
Just kidding …
-
Here’s the show winner …
-
But - Bill Warner & company saw this storm coming and moved the event to Saturday …. Good thing …
-
Sunday in Jacksonville - day of the annual Amelia Concours -
-
I’ll be right over ….
-
3rd gen Camaro
absmiami replied to MarkJ's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
Some journey -
Making a dash bulkhead to replace the Joker casting …
-
The idea is to make better bulkheads - add some detail and install an engine ….
-
The Lotus 18 proj has crawled off the shelf again - the resin body and chassis plate are fr an old rare Joker curbside kit …. Hard to find - curious - do any other forum members have one ?
-
just for the record A4 leaves us all in his dust ... .. ...
-
So back they go into the stash - this is a set of 25th scale Webers - just a little smaller - these will fit …
-
Scale compromise - these are 24th scale Webers - 3D printed - the good stuff - but they won’t quite fit under the bonnet …
