1968 Lotus Type 51A Formula Ford

Serial Number: 51A/FF/102 Frame Number: AM-116 Engine Number: tbd Gearbox Number: tbd Condition: Concours Price: $24,900 $24,400 U.S. Location: Midwestern U.S.

Description A perfect example of everyone's favorite looking Historic Formula Ford, this is a celebrity car to boot, having been owned and campaigned by U.S. motorsports announcer Paul Page. This car is a completely correct restoration of the first model produced for Formula Ford. It retains the original Renault box and left hand shifter. It is unique in not having been updated to the non-original Hewland box or later types B/C rear suspension. It features a Jay Ivey prepared engine. The car was completely restored by Bruce Miller in 1991 and has been raced only a few times since. The chassis is painted the correct slate gray, and the red seat cover and steering wheel provide a perfect highlight to the BRG with yellow stripe exterior. For the collector who values originality there is no better example of the car which inaugurated the training formula for the next two generations of competition drivers.

History

Recent Competition History

Engine

• Ford "Kent" 1600 crossflow (Cortina)
• prepared by Ivey Engines
• dry sumped
• fuel cell

Gearbox

• Renault Type 330, left hand shift
• 4 forward speeds, synchromesh, fixed ratios

Final Drive

• Renault, in unit with gearbox

Body

• fibreglass, in unit nose and cowling, undertray, tailcover

Chassis

• spaceframe, mild steel, of mostly round tubes
• Front Suspension: double wishbones, coil over
• Rear Suspension: lower reversed wishbone, top link, dual trailing arms
• Steering: Triumph rack and pinion
• Brakes: Girling disc, 14LF front calipers front, 10SP rear
• Wheels: correct Lotus Elan front and Lotus Cortina rear, new Dunlop FF tires

Interior

• Smiths guages
• red leather steering wheel
• red vinyl seat cover
• full harness
• fire system