Ford Cortina MK1 (Works Race and Rally cars)

[Anuauto]

Mk1s first slice.

T00528 1200cc. RAC Rally 1962 Jeff Uren/? First works rally Cortina.
Same car Henry Taylor/? 63 Monte Carlo rally No193 (2nd in class)

FOO229 Willment race GTs 1963
FOO230
FOO228?

166RUR First Team Lotus race car Sep 63
168RUR Team Lotus

BHU440C? Alan Mann car?

BJH417B Team Lotus 64 race cars
BJH418B
BJH419B

KHR293 GT Safari Rally (No9) 63?
Other cars?

KHS595 GT Safari 64 Elford/Baillon
KHS596
KHS597
KHS598 Sprinzell/Garnier
KHS599
KHS600 Hughes/Young

ETW361B Taylor/Melia Tour de France Auto 64 (A bracket) No37
ETW362B Elford/Siegle-Morris Tour de France Auto 64 (A bracket)
No38.

BTW297B Alan Mann 64 race (white/green)
Team Lotus race 65?

BTW300B Willment colours race car

EHK489B Alan Mann Spa 24Hr 64 Whitmore/? white/green
EHK490B Alan Mann Spa 24Hr 64 No.300 white/green

RWC202 GT P.Moss 63RAC. Re-shelled 64. 65Monte Keinonen/Olof No258

786BOO Lotus Taylor/Melia RAC63

The “DOO” works rally cars, widely used in many events and probably re-shelled.
888DOO GT Taylor regular car incl. Liege63 with T/C engine, RAC64 No19
889DOO GT Siegle-Morris RAC64 No21
890DOO GT Taylor Monte65 No252
891DOO GT
892DOO GT RAC 63 No28, Alpine 64 (Siegle-Morris)
893DOO GT Alpine 64 (Elford-Touring category winner) Elford RAC 64 No20?


2ANR R.Clark private GT(works parts) . 64+65 Scottish winner, 65
Gulf winner.

AVW199B GT at end 64 party in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Rally car, not
used on Bob run stunt.


JTW496C Team Lotus 65 (A bracket)
JTW497C
JTW498C

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Later Mk1s

The “KPU” works rally cars, widely used in many events and re-shelled. Is there any evidence the Alan Mann cars had numbers rotated between shells (other than initially – see”392”)?

KPU380C Siegle-Morris/Nash RAC 65 (red)
Elford Alpine 66 (white/green/black)(new car). Elford RAC 66.
KPU381C (Later a private car Chris Sclater 69, Seven Dales, Welsh etc) (Sclater previously used GLL487C? ex-Allan Allard Mk1 Lotus) KPU381C now
restored as works car by Brian Moorcroft.
KPU382C
KPU383C R.Clark 1966 UK events (except RAC) incl. Scottish, Gulf (red)
KPU384C Alan Mann 1965 red/gold. Now in Sweden?
KPU385C
KPU386C J.Clark test Bagshot pre-66 RAC
KPU387C
KPU388C
KPU389C
KPU390C Alan Mann 66 red/gold
KPU391C Alan Mann 66 red/gold
KPU392C Alan Mann 65 (Whitmore ETCC winner). Was first appearance of “392” on a white/green car at Mont Ventoux 65? Was this actually a 64 A bracket car because leaf springs had still not been homologated by that event or was it the “real” 392 not yet painted red/gold? (and was it A bracket or the not yet homologated leaf springs??)

KPU393C Team Lotus standard road car 65. Later a Mann race car?
Reg No carried by Simon Drabble’s Mann-colours race car 2006 but is not the actual reg no of that car's V5.

KPU394C
KPU395C Elford Alpine 65 red No74. Elford 65 RAC? (3rd)
KPU396C Team Lotus 65 race?(leaf spring) (Reg no from Chapman’s w/off road car?)
KPU397C
KPU398C

NNO634C Press/PR vehicle Oct 65 (now Moorcroft 65 works replica)

PHK614D Team Lotus 66 (Group 5)
PHK615D Team Lotus
PHK616D Team Lotus

NVW240C Monte 66 (Group 1) Soderstrom No 205 lhd.
G.Robson records this car as then used in Gp2 spec by Elford on Rally of Flowers (later to be known as San Remo). Believe Elford Flowers car was Gp1 and rhd.

NVW242C Monte 66 (Group 1) Elford No 223.
NVW243C Monte 66 (Group 1) Clark No75
NNO822C Monte 66 (Group1) Ljungfeldt/Rehnfeldt No29
NNO761C Monte 66 (Group1)?
Elford 66 Tulip No60 Gp2. Elford 66 Acropolis Gp2.
NNO821C Monte 66 (Gp1) Procter/Mabbs No7. Melia 66Gulf Gp2.
? Monte66 (Gp1) Greder No184 (works?).


(New Gp2 cars built for 66 Alpine. First Lotus works rally cars in white/green/black bonnet and first use of Minilites. All previous works rally cars red except white Safari cars)

NVW239C RAC 66 Soderstrom 1st
NVW241C RAC 66 J.Clark rhd (Robson says used by Soderstrom 66 Monte but if so was converted to rhd and became white/green) (shell scrapped after RAC)
NVW242C Rhd, white/green, No 54 Alpine 66 (R.Clark?) RAC 66 R.Clark?
(Elford in KPU380C on Alpine and RAC)


?(Swedish reg) Swedish 67 Soderstrom/Palm 1st (was works Mk1 Lotus)


550VAR J.Clark road car, ex Lotus development car (Elan irs, rear discs)

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Mk2
68 London-Sydney Marathon cars updated.
Harper car was not works entered (Tecalemit) (but was works built?)
Soderstrom No.38
Clark No48
Brittan No 50
Jackson No73

[cavvy]

The Mk1 had its day in Australia - what has happened to the cars?

Neptune Racing Jim McKeown
Allan Moffat
Bob Jane
Volkers & Michelmore
Pete Geoghegan

[Anuauto]

NN0761C should read MNO761C

[jonners]

There's quite a lot I can add but all my papers are in storage at the moment.

One intriguing question for Cortina spotters tho - does anyone know much about the works cars raced in the US (by Alan Moffat amongst others) in the very early days of Trans Am?

550 VAR still exists - in private museum having passed through Andy Middlehurst's and Tom Walkinshaw's hands. The rear suspension was loosely based on the Elan +2 but with many bespoke parts

[zefarelly]

The WIllment GT cars of 1963

FOO 173 (Doc Merefield) one of the most used cars from my photos
FOO 229 went to US MArlborough 12 hour race
FOO 230 went to US MArlborough 12 hour race
780 BOO had side stripes as well as top 3 stripes

Alan Mann had a GT in 63 as well, no idea of the No, but it wasn't white like the others, I've only got a B&W pic, doesn't look red, but difficult to say in grey!


other Raced GT's
165 or 185 DOO or FOO
( illegible photo in my stash )

DVY 500 ( Bathurst winning GT 500 )
also seen with taped ARM 500 PLate
ATZ 100 - 4 door GT 1963 BAthurst Winner ( Bob Jane ?)

[jonners]

Anyone got any solid info on Jackie Stewart's Lotus Cortina exploits?

Also, info on the cars used for the [?]1965 Sebring race where Clark [?] won?

Also, I believe that when the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Minis were disqualified on the Monte Carlo rally in [? year], the fourth placed car was also disqualified for the same reason - Roger Clark in a LHD 'KPU' Lotus Cortina. Anyone know more??

[Anuauto]

Originally Posted by jonners

Also, I believe that when the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Minis were disqualified on the Monte Carlo rally in [? year], the fourth placed car was also disqualified for the same reason - Roger Clark in a LHD 'KPU' Lotus Cortina. Anyone know more??

1966 Roger Clark in a new Group One RHD red car NVW243C - see earlier in thread.

[zefarelly]

I've heard and read about Jackies Stewart and Oliver racing LC's but never seen any results

WIllment GT's where raced by All sorts, and theres little record of that either, Bob Olthoff for example emailed me a few years ago ( not long before he passed away) with a few pointers on the cars prep and some pics

I've got assorted press cuttings on file or road and track tests on Willment Sprint GT's, and race cars, there where a few POO registered press cars as well !!!

[zombie289]

Alan Moffats first lotus cortina (pre airflow) is an ex team lotus car (Jody Schecther or Jochen Rindt-can't remember??)
Now restored and owned by david bowden in QLD, Australia

Moffat also had many airflow Locorts.
A white/green car which he raced in australia...MIA??
He took over the USA Trans Am effort in 67 and ran the ex Alan mann cars that ran in the USA in 66...dont know any history on these..
Moffat also had a light yellow/black car (similar to the Shelby terlingua racing team colors) in the USA..dunno the history..

Jim mckeowans Team Neptune car was HUN-999 (the wheels magazine cover car, bought from Coffey Ford)...I beleive that it's last known whereabouts is in QLD on a farm, pretty much nothing left...

The geoghagan car is MIA, was told that it was destroyed in the 70's as a road car.

Bob Janes car was a special equipment pre airflow car, bought by Jim Mckeowan in the 90's for Appendix J racing (just as quick as he was back in the day!!). The car was sold back to an adelaide racer then sold to the UK I believe.

[zombie289]

Originally Posted by zefarelly

Alan Mann had a GT in 63 as well, no idea of the No, but it wasn't white like the others, I've only got a B&W pic, doesn't look red, but difficult to say in grey

Been told by a guy that actaully saw that 12hr race that the car was a copper/bronze color with white flash. Was appaerntly built from a deluxe shell according to the late howard mardsen.

[zombie289]

Originally Posted by Anuauto

Interesting post by zombie 289 re-Alan Mann cars in US in Trans Am in 66 (same Mk1s used in 67?). Were these additional cars to the European programme (where we thought we had identified them, to help a poster on another thread from Sweden with a 65 car)?

In an old moffat autobiog, he states that he was 'given' the 66 cars and equipment by ford to run their 67 Trans am under 2 litre effort...
There were at least two alan mann cars, i have quite a few pics of them and can maybe look up numbers etc. (none of the US cars have licence plates on them, so identity will be tough) Cars were driven by Moffat, Frank gardener, Sir John Whitmore, Jim Mckeowan, even Harry firth had a go I believe. (could be wrong on that, he did some of the marlboro 12hr races and maybe the daytona 24hr). Any other drivers im unaware of. I have been told that at least one of the alan mann trans am cars is now owned by Ross Bremmer in the USA. (again not 100% sure, but he DOES have a former AMR locort of some description)

Cheers
Pauly

[zefarelly]

another 'period' race car I know of was Terry Nichols, he raced a sky blue LC in 64, apparently in the States also ( possibly Marlborough ?)

even club racer Cortinas must have been fairly scarce in 63/64 ? at least I'm not aware of any Cortinas with long history that still exist and are used

[stein johnsen]

Lotus Cortina

KPU 382 was that not used by J. Clark in the RAC rally 66?
Latter sold by Tom Walkinshaw

[John Turner]

166 RUR, driven in period by Jim Clark, Trevor Taylor, Dan Gurney, and Sir John Whitmore is now in the ownership of Chris Rea. It's featured in the January edition of Octane.

[Anuauto]

Originally Posted by stein johnsen

Lotus Cortina

KPU 382 was that not used by J. Clark in the RAC rally 66?
Latter sold by Tom Walkinshaw

Jim Clark is reported as testing at Bagshot in a (red?) car carrying KPU386C prior to the 66 RAC.
On the 66 RAC he drove a white/green/black bonnet car registered NVW241C. Graham Robson has written that this was the ex-Soderstrom (red, Group1) 66 Monte Carlo Rally car. Whilst the 66 Monte Group 1 cars mostly seem to have been converted to Group 2 and used on later events (still red), a photograph of the badly damaged NVW241C back at Boreham after the 66 RAC prior to scrapping of the shell suggests it was a white car from new. It's origin is not clear to me. The new white/green cars (the first works rally Lotus Cortinas so-coloured since the one-off Taylor 63 RAC car) built for the 66 Alpine are believed to have been next (and last) used by the same drivers on the 66 RAC (R.Clark, V. Elford) (Elford's new 66 Alpine white car carried an old reg no, KPU380C, previously used on a red car, not a newer NVW number).

The post-66 RAC photo of the damaged NVW241C shows it carrying an Esso sticker on the bulkhead under the bonnet. The works cars were all Castrol supported (no advertising on cars then) at the time. J.Clark was, of course, Esso-contracted in F1 etc. and seems to have been tampering with the car...

[zefarelly]

KPU393C (on the red LC racer of Roger Wills) was originally on what I guess is a works road car, I found a pic in a book over the weekend of it parked between a pair of works cers

[Anuauto]

Simon Drabble mentioned on another thread that KPU393C carried on his car was not the actual V5 reg. number for it. Just to confirm above, does Roger Willis now have that car?
I had picked up that 393 was initially a factory road car in the original table but that was from a narrative account somewhere. That a photo exists is good confirmation.

[zombie289]

Heres a link to a pic of the yellow/black moffat car I decribed earlier:

http://www.lotus-cortina.com/library/racing/racing.htm

(Also shows him in one of the alan mann cars)

This link also shows that the alan mann built cars may have been purpose built cars for the 66 trans am effort:

http://www.lotus-cortina.com/image/F...terToLotus.pdf

Cheers
Pauly

[Anuauto]

The works-built Mk1 Lotus used by Soderstrom/Palm on the 1967 Swedish is now identified as (Swedish) registered A8712. A white car with white bonnet and (believed) blue, not green, side flash suggests it was not the Soderstrom 66 RAC winner re-registered.

[zefarelly]

Roger bought Simons half, and no, the V5 is different, I know the history of the specific car back to the late 80's/early 90's when it was a road car and used for sprinting and occaisional rallies I think, I'd have to ask the owner

[Anuauto]

A French source confirms (new, white/green/black bonnet) Roger Clark/Brian Melia 1966 Alpine Rally (Coupe des Alpes) car No54 did carry NVW242C. (reg no previously used on red Monte Carlo 66 Gp1 car for Elford)
Awaiting confirmation same car used by R. Clark on 66 RAC Rally (on which fastest on first 3 stages then retired).

[lotustwincam]

Anyone have knowledge of chassis numbers for the BTW/JTW cars?

[D-Type]

The Mk1 GT driven in the 1966 Safari V R (Vic snr) Preston & R C (Bob) Gerrish (#80) had registration number KKG 3