Lotus Book

Lotus The Historic Sports & Racing Cars of Australia (book by Marc Schagen)

The Lotus brand has enjoyed a long and successful record in racing here in Australia since the first Mark Six was imported by Alex Strachan in 1956. This book traces the history of each of the sports and racing cars that raced and "lived" here since then and includes all the known owners and many never before seen photos of each car, many of them in colour. This work is the culmination of many years research by the author collecting the details on each car featured in this book. It makes great reference for the Lotus enthusiast, or for anyone who enjoys looking at the great photos contained within. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have putting it together.

Price: $ 50.00

Postage within Australia: $15.00

 

Non-Australian customers contact me for the postage quotation.

Please note I do not profit on the postage costs.

 

 

FROM THE EDITOR OF CLUB LOTUS AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER

Tom Devitt

Welcome to the February newsletter and the first one for 2013. This year marks a significant chapter in the history of Lotus. It was 50 years ago that Jim Clark won his first world championship and Lotus won its first constructors championship. It was also 50 years ago that the Lotus Cortina has homologated. It was 40 years ago that Club Lotus Australia was formed and importantly it is the year that CLA hosts the Australia wide gathering of Lotus clubs in Canberra.

To mark the historic milestones, there will be celebrations around the world and at Race Retro, the annual historic motorsport show at Stonleigh Park Coventry there will be 2 significant Jim Clark Lotus 25's on show. Our own John Bowers will be taking the R4 car whilst Englishman Nick Fennell will take the R5 car. Also at the show, we are told will be Murray Walker who is said to be celebrating 65 years of Motor Racing commentary.

Towards the end of last year, CLA Member Marc Schagen released his book 'Lotus, the historic sports and racing cars of Australia'. This is quite simply a masterpiece of the Lotus competition car in Australia and one which I cannot recommend highly enough. What started for me as a simple read through became a total immersment in the book. Marc states at the beginning that he is not a writer, and in many ways this helps because rather than waffle on about the heat haze rising off the Mulsanne straight, he presents only the facts. And what facts they are, I defy anybody who has owned one of the cars in this book (And if you have owned a Lotus that has competed it WILL be in this book) to know all the facts about their vehicle!! You find yourself muttering "So that's how he came to have it" "So that's where it went".... "Good lord, I had forgotten about that car" "And all the time he said it has dual cam chains a-la Alfa Romeo" Grab a copy while you can at just $50.00 plus &15.00 postage it represents extraordinary value for such an immense source of information.