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Lotus Story - a story about a famous Lotus 7 - and tales of other Lotus Sports Cars.
A story of a Lotus Seven,
What is believed to be the First Lotus Seven [ 7 ] in New Zealand
- Chassis Number S 1024 it is the series 2 version of the Lotus Seven Sports Car.
The Story [ History ] of the car was recently given to me with photos from 1960/61 until recently by the current owner.
Adrian Krzyzewski.
The story is largely in his own words with Photos, Programme / Entry Lists, Results, Newspaper articles and other pieces of information.
- first photos and the start of the " Lotus Story " to be added soon.
A photo of the car in 1961 - after the issue of new Number Plates in July 1961, the last of the 5 yearly plates, although these were only used for 4 years 1961 - 1965, with cars changing to permanent plates in July 1964, heavy vehicles and Commercial Taxi's etc in July 1965.
This photo is from Glen McIntyre's archives - he was involved with the cars second owner - more to come
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Notes on the photo have the names of the first owners..
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Lotus 7 the Bob Blackburn Car. Chassis S1024
Story hasn't progressed yet but recently Adrian Krzyzewski posted a couple of photos of the car - one from Dunedin in 1961 and the other when he purchased it in 2022.
Adrian is seeking more photos of the car he purchased from the Dawes family - and its time with Bob Dawes who had passed away.
Bob Dawes raced the car with the Sports Car Enthusiasts Club based in Palmerston North and mainly raced at Manfield - the SCEC. He competed with people like Austin Healey guy Jim Reece in a Mark 3 Sprite and others.
The Dunedin phioto - it is part of a sequence that is on a movie / video of the Dunedin 1961 Le Mans start Sports Car Race.
a similar photo I have seen was from Jim Bennett - on the Dunedin thread which showed the Bennet brothers Ivan and Cliff in their Morgan cars.
One of the Bennett Morgan's can be seen as well as the AH 100S of E ( Joss ) Tims
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The car when Bob Dawes owned it - racing at Manfield - part of a series of photos of the cars in Jim Reece archives
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The car when being collected by Adrian Krzyzewski in 2022 - his own archives
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If anyone has photos of the car under Bob Dawes ownership - please let me know by PM or post on here.
The Story of the this Lotus will be continued in the near future.
Cheers
Roger