26r identities and other info

PostPost by: elancoupe » Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:26 am

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PostPost by: elancoupe » Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:29 am

One more 47, at the time was located in Cincy Ohio. Is now in GTL livery, like so many others.
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PostPost by: cabc26b » Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:51 am

That's the only 47 I have seen with bumpers and BTW, they made more than one lHD 47 according to the registry.
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PostPost by: elancoupe » Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:33 am

Thanks for the correction --- that was what the owner told me at the time.

Current pics of the blue one show it without bumpers, I wondered about that myself.
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PostPost by: elansprint71 » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:29 pm

What are these things doing in a 26R thread? :?
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PostPost by: twincamman » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:38 pm

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PostPost by: garyeanderson » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:40 pm

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PostPost by: elancoupe » Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:11 pm

My apologies for being OT.

After viewing the 47 registry, it's too bad that a similar site doesn't exist for the 26R. Some of the documentation and race history is quite interesting.

I realise that discrepancies would occur, but some history is better than none.
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PostPost by: garyeanderson » Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:27 pm

I took these in 1995 at Monterey, there was a lot of interesting Lotus Cars there that year. I think 3 of the type under discussion here.
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PostPost by: elancoupe » Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:19 pm

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PostPost by: elancoupe » Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:24 pm

garyeanderson wrote:I took these in 1995 at Monterey, there was a lot of interesting Lotus Cars there that year. I think 3 of the type under discussion here.


A few more shots of the same car: http://www.vprace.com/carsales/lotus_26r.htm
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PostPost by: garyeanderson » Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:29 pm

I found some other photos or Gil Nickel's 26r at Monterey in 98, he also had the 27 there.

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PostPost by: elancoupe » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:52 pm

Nickel's car was very nice, I have a big poster of it on my garage wall. :)
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PostPost by: cabc26b » Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:14 pm

Gil's car had a twin cam in it that sounded like no other I ever heard. The speed at which it spun-up was un-real and the sound, a bit different as well. That car was evil fast and I have heard first hand account how that thing would get up and walk away from cars that it should not have on long straights were and elan typically does not excel....
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PostPost by: garyeanderson » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:13 pm

http://www.puffofsmokeracing.com/Cars/l ... lan26R.htm

A few photos of other 26r at the above link.

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