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    World Champion Roger Dowding's Avatar
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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

    Name:  Lotus Story #1025 Bob Blackburn Dunedin Festival 28 Jan 1961 D Tpye Jaguar w Bennett Morgans AH .jpg
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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

    Name:  SCEC #014 Manfield SCEC Racers 1970's Lotus 7 Bob Dawes -ex B Blackburn 173 kb arch Jim Reece .jpg
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    The car when being collected by Adrian Krzyzewski in 2022 - his own archives

    Name:  Lotus Story #1032 Lotus 7 ex Bob Blackburn as purchsed from Dawes Family early 2022 by Adrian Kr.jpg
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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

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    Bob was a very dear friend of mine Roger and he really loved that car. So pleased to see that it is in good hands.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spgeti View Post
    Bob was a very dear friend of mine Roger and he really loved that car. So pleased to see that it is in good hands.
    As far as I know Bob Dawes owned the car longer than anyone else, he was racing it in the 1970's with SCEC, Sports Car Enthusiasts Club with my Austin Healey friend Jim Reece..
    Hope to get the story going soon .. have a few images to scan to my new Laptop..

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