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Lou Drozdowski:
Classic Team Lotus run the restored ex Hill 38 for the first time in 50 years!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z89Qs67omrc
dakazman:
Nice find Lou!
Also on Instagram, under classicteamlotus. Getting ready for goodwill festival.
You can’t copy and paste on Instagram. Thanks for posting.
Dakazman
BDA:
Looks and sounds good!
dakazman:
I was reading the specs on it , they say it was a two speed gearbox, could that be correct?
Dakazman
SwiftDB4:
--- Quote from: dakazman on Wednesday,June 23, 2021, 11:55:16 AM --- I was reading the specs on it , they say it was a two speed gearbox, could that be correct?
Dakazman
--- End quote ---
Yes it's a ZF 2 DS20 gearbox. Common practice of that era to only have 2 gears. One to get out of the pits and top gear for the oval. Guess they wanted minimal power loss with fewer parts in the gearbox. Notably 38/8S is the only symmetrical 38 car as all others had asymmetrical suspension. This chassis was only used in practice by Hill in 1967 who had trouble getting it up to speed and raced a type 42 instead. Outside of practice this car had no race history while owned by Lotus.
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