Showing posts with label Colin Chapman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colin Chapman. Show all posts
December 15, 2010
Lotus goes Turbo
What with all the talk bout Lotus and JPS liveries and the coming turbos, I thought you might enjoy this film dating from the early 80's.
Apparently Adrien Newey still draws cars using just pen and paper but I found the segments about design the most fascinating. Might as well have been 100 years ago!
You'll need about a half hour for the film.
(Gt4zone/Vimeo)
September 6, 2010
The unbearable price of lightness
Amazing document linked by a reader in the Jochen Rindt post: A letter from the Austrian driver to Colin Chapman in 1969, sometime after his accident at Montjuic where the high rear wing collapsed on his Lotus 49.
Not that much has changed at Lotus to this day, typical British way: brilliant engineering, crap build quality.
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Not that much has changed at Lotus to this day, typical British way: brilliant engineering, crap build quality.
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