{"id":131,"date":"2013-04-09T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.org.uk\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2022-06-24T08:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T08:19:36","slug":"photo-archive-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/?page_id=131","title":{"rendered":"Photo Archive 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of these photos come from the Historic Lotus Register and Peter Ross and we would like to acknowledge this<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/Lotus%20Images\/Misc\/l6broch2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1450\" alt=\"l6broch2_small\" src=\"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/l6broch2_small-240x300.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/l6broch2_small-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/l6broch2_small.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Colin Chapman&#8217;s personal car with special cam followers Ford side valve. Touring Back; the car described as &#8220;preposterously fast&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1451\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\" alt=\"LeMans56\" src=\"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LeMans56-300x297.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LeMans56-300x297.jpg 300w, http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LeMans56-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LeMans56.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">This photo was<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0taken in 1956 and shows the so-called &#8220;wide chassis&#8221; Lotus Elevens. Lotus entered 3 Elevens at Le Mans in 1956. Race number 32 (the car shown in the front of the photo), 9 EHX, had a 1460 cc Coventry Climax FWB engine and was driven by Colin Chapman and Mac Frazer &#8211; retired in the 21st hour when the engine expired. Race number 35, DEC 494, had an 1100 cc Climax FWA engine and was driven by Cliff Allison and Keith Hall &#8211; retired in the 10th hour after hitting a large dog. Race number 36, XJH 902, had an 1100 cc Climax FWA engine and was driven by Reg Bicknell and Peter Jopp &#8211; finished 7th overall, won the 1100 cc class and was 4th in the Index of Performance. The picture may have been taken just before the start of the race.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of these photos come from the Historic Lotus Register and Peter Ross and we would like to acknowledge this Colin Chapman&#8217;s personal car with special cam followers Ford side valve. Touring Back; the car described as &#8220;preposterously fast&#8221; This photo was\u00a0taken in 1956 and shows the so-called &#8220;wide chassis&#8221; Lotus Elevens. Lotus entered 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":125,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions\/3860"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}