I show for the Mark 1 there were 2867 (1963 - 228,1964 - 536, 1965 - 1112,
1966 - 991) and there were 4093 Mark IIs (1967 - 1379, 1968 - 1484, 1969 -
1036, 1970 - 194). Both the Mark I and IIs came with the Twin Cam, which
totals out to 6,960 cars. These figures are from Newtons book on the Elan,
Europa, and Cortina. Is he right????
If there were only Lotus Twin cams in the Mark I, then that means there were
4500 more Elans made, so the total is now up to 25,000.
jeff
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Subject: Total number of TC engines
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> Total Elan production. Let us look at the Heart of the matter.
> There were 32,000 twin cam motors made:
>
> 4500 Lotus +2
> 2400 Europa's with a Twink
> 7000 Cortinas
> 1300 Sevens
> 500 Various racing - 23s etc.
> 500 For sloppy lotus math pre 1970
>
> Leaves 15,800 twin cams left laying around. So there must have been
15,800
> Lotus Elans. Add the 4500 Plus 2s back end - that gives you 20,300 Elans
> total.
>
> jeff
> a consultant's perspective
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>
7000 Cortinas? There were about 2500 Lotus Cortinas. The others would
have pushrod engines.
Rod
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