Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
£1/4m or so to spare? Buy a sleek bit of Hornsey's motor racing History
This sleek 1955 Lotus-Bristol MK X Sports-race can be yours for an estimated £250,000 - £300.000.
The auction catalogue says:
Colin Chapman and his energetic young design team at the Lotus Engineering Company - based behind father Stan Chapman's public house, The Railway Hotel in Hornsey, North London - introduced the beautiful Lotus Mark X competition sports car in 1955.
Please show it to me once you've bought it.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on
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I visited the Lotus works back of the Railway in about 1956 and may have seen one of these beauties. Chapman went to Stationers where I went and was there around the time my eldest brother was there (he it was who took me to Lotus). A few years later I was a junior reporter at the Journal and did a story of their move to Cheshunt (1959) as a way of blagging a visit to the new factory. By then they were building the Elite and Stirling Moss won Monaco for them! (Not in an Elite!)
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Not even on the horizon back then! Sadly I never drove any decent Lotus, only a five minute run in an Elan.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Soper on
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Yes it should be - "if your classic is more than 40 years old and is registered for the histori..., you will not need to pay the ULEZ charge."
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