on 7/11/01 11:48 AM, Carl McLelland at carlynneracing@home.com wrote:
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> If I showed up at the next event with a Lotus 23B sporting a horizontal fan
> Porsche 904 engine, would I be allowed to race; claiming that the car was
> 'period correct'? On the other hand, if George Follmer showed up with the
> same car would HE be allowed to race? (George Follmer was the USRRC Champion
> in 1967 driving a Lotus 23B with a 904 engine shoehorned into it).
>
Talk about shoehorning a four-cam engine... how about the one from the late
James Dean's Spyder that was installed in a new Lotus Mk. IX in 1956 and
raced at Pebble Beach that year? The car was last run at Pomona in October
1956, but is reportedly still intact. A nice period photo is in the
March/April 2001 356 Registry magazine.
Brett
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