Dag-Henning wrote:I find it strange that something that "everyone" have judged as "never existed" , all of a sudden appears out of the sky.
This item has been discussed pages up and down over the last twenty years, and still something quite new pops up....
Proven wrong Rohan ? - not quite sure..! They fly people to the moon, and it may have been "usefull", - cos it's not difficult -, to put an "L" onto anything to achieve a better price.
I am not quite sure if I am being accused of something underhand here but if that is the case I take exception to the insinuations
I cannot vouch for the authenticity of the 2737 pics as they were sent to me by another forum member who was considering buying it and wanted my opinion, in the event he did not buy it but as far as I remember it was being sold as an XFlow (see the pin in the front main bearing cap for the timing chain slipper) and not a Lotus engine (so not commanding inflated Lotus prices)
As regards the moon landings ....well that's a whole new subject and there will always be the "Flat Earth Society" and the conspiracy theory's of the crackpots
BTW its not about proving anyone wrong, its about all of us learning about the origins of Lotus and I am surprised that there is no one around who worked in the foundry and can give some definitive answers as this and the "T" number which has been tossed about on many forums for years.....but I digress.....
Just to throw a little more into the melting pot, I found some more pics of my friends "L" engine LP 3719 LBA from his Lotus Cortina (and it was a 1965 C registered) he has had it more than twenty five years, long before ebay created a thriving market for anything Lotus.
Although I assumed it was a 120E I am now having doubts as this pic shows an "L" at the end where Lotus ground off the casting number! I cannot think of any casting that had the L as the last digit unless I am missing something.......this is interesting stuff (IMHO)