Classic Team Lotus Quarterly Review

Classic Team Lotus Quarterly Review Issue 3 2026

49R1 Is Relaunched At Hethel

 

The Lotus Type 49 was built and unveiled at Hethel, the home of Lotus, on May 23rd, 1967. Fifty-nine years after the historic day Colin Chapman famously drove the Type 49 down the runway at Hethel and was photographed with the brand new Lotus production facility behind him, Classic Team Lotus unveiled the reconstruction of 49R1 that was commissioned by George Barber, the late founder of the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham Alabama.

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