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Title: One of the first
Post by: Lou Drozdowski on Saturday,January 23, 2021, 08:32:00 AM

If you are a fan of F1...you may have heard of Peter Windsor.

Here's a picture of his mom at the Norfolk facility in March of 67. Seems he wanted to get a Europa, but came home with an Elan instead.

He was provided a very early Renault powered S1 for a test hop. Love the tail lamps!

Title: Re: One of the first
Post by: lotusfanatic on Monday,January 25, 2021, 12:24:01 AM

Hello Lou,

thank you so much for posting this!
A while ago, I stumbled across an article, with photographs, of a visitor (with his parents) to Hethel and I could not find it (I knew that it had photographs of an early Europa!)

Mark   

 

Title: Re: One of the first
Post by: Nick 0032R on Friday,February 05, 2021, 09:23:26 AM

Peter Windsor writes about it here along with photos of the Lotus factory when it was just being built:

https://peterwindsor.com/2013/11/08/the-elan/

Regards
Nick

Title: Re: One of the first
Post by: dakazman on Friday,February 05, 2021, 10:35:14 AM

  :Welcome:NICK0032R.     :Welcome:

   Nice find on the article.👍 tc
Dakazman

Title: Re: One of the first
Post by: Nick 0032R on Friday,February 05, 2021, 10:51:24 AM

Thanks for the welcome Dakazman!

Title: Re: One of the first
Post by: lotusfanatic on Tuesday,February 09, 2021, 12:45:53 AM

 Hi Nick

:Welcome:

Mark

Title: Re: One of the first
Post by: Nockenwelle on Tuesday,February 09, 2021, 12:19:42 PM

Fantastic picture, thanks for sharing  :trophy:

:Welcome: Nick and thanks for posting the link to the correspong article.

Anymore contemporian Europa S1 pictures?