Keith Halstead
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Seller information l_olaw WOLVERHAMPTON
£59,995.00
Hi here I have for sale this Ford MK1 Lotus Cortina 1964 pre-airflow. Due to downsizing my collection, with a heavy heart I have decided to let my treasured Mk1 Lotus Cortina go up for sale after nearly 10 years of ownership. This is car is infamouslyView attachment 5View attachment 4View attachment 3View attachment 2View attachment 1 known as the Lotus Outlaws staff car and has been known to the LCR for many years. After owning and building some of the best show cars in Europe I decided to build this little special car with a twist. The car was originally restored in the 90s, body work is still nice and straight, very solid but showing the odd age related mark here and there, sits well on a field amongst other classic cars. Still on its original A-frame, Ali diff housing, brand new LSD, original 50mph in 1st gear box and built on all its Ali casings. Original Ali doors, boot and bonnet which are very light compared to the ones of today. Now lets get down to serious business, the engine is a monster spec 2.0 steel crank, steel rods, IKE performance stroker kit, built on an AX block, all lightened and balanced, massive big valve head, 45 Webbers, brand new Simpson full race exhaust system. Electric fuel pump, big Ali rad, electric fan. The engine dyno'd 196.3 bhp @ 7000 rpm and 171.8 lbft @ 4900 rpm. Yes you have read it right, with dyno print out and videos to prove. This engine converts a lotus cortina into a monster that will out gun most 60s and 70s classics. Engine revs to well over 8000 rpm, the beauty of it is, with so much torque it quite happily purrs around town and has the mannerisms of any other lotus cortina, but then if you wish, pull out of a junction rev it, drop the clutch and it happily leaves 2 black lines for 60 metres up the road like no other lotus cortina I have ever driven. Also has front coil overs, adjustable TCA's, Ali hubs, Ali 4 pot callipers, suspension has been set up on corner weights to make this car handle and perform as good as anything. Car is weighing in approx 820KG. Interior very presentable, nice carpet, original door panels, original studded lotus steering wheel correct to a 64 car. New period bucket seats and willams harnesses which were put in to do the odd hill climb and sprint to which it got a lot of attention. People saying they have never seen a lotus cortina perform like this one. Original seats and centre console can be sold with the car. Very light minilite wheels, could be magnesium, brand new Avon ZZR race tyres which are basically a street legal slicks. To sum this car up, a monster of a lotus cortina with the very best of everything built on an open cheque book. I have owned and driven approx 20 Lotus Cortinas in the last 20 years and none, I repeat none perform like this car. Got to be one of the fastest road going Lotus Cortinas in the country, happily drive to a show on Sunday or be a serious competitor at any track day or hill climb, this car will do you proud. if you want to win trophies on concourse fields this definitely is NOT the car for you, as a lot of it is not correct to factory. If you are looking for a very rapid, drive any weather condition, hill climb stormer this is definitely the car for you. Engine today will cost £25k to build, Simpson exhaust 2.5k, do the rest of the sums for yourself. Priced very very fair, this car can easily go back to standard but why would you? Or you are half way there to make the ultimate race car. It will kill me to sell this car, do not need the money, so will not suffer fools lightly. Don't need the anorak boys to tell me what is right and what is wrong, know these cars inside out, some bits are right, some wrong, end of the day the car is a monster.
£59,995.00
Hi here I have for sale this Ford MK1 Lotus Cortina 1964 pre-airflow. Due to downsizing my collection, with a heavy heart I have decided to let my treasured Mk1 Lotus Cortina go up for sale after nearly 10 years of ownership. This is car is infamouslyView attachment 5View attachment 4View attachment 3View attachment 2View attachment 1 known as the Lotus Outlaws staff car and has been known to the LCR for many years. After owning and building some of the best show cars in Europe I decided to build this little special car with a twist. The car was originally restored in the 90s, body work is still nice and straight, very solid but showing the odd age related mark here and there, sits well on a field amongst other classic cars. Still on its original A-frame, Ali diff housing, brand new LSD, original 50mph in 1st gear box and built on all its Ali casings. Original Ali doors, boot and bonnet which are very light compared to the ones of today. Now lets get down to serious business, the engine is a monster spec 2.0 steel crank, steel rods, IKE performance stroker kit, built on an AX block, all lightened and balanced, massive big valve head, 45 Webbers, brand new Simpson full race exhaust system. Electric fuel pump, big Ali rad, electric fan. The engine dyno'd 196.3 bhp @ 7000 rpm and 171.8 lbft @ 4900 rpm. Yes you have read it right, with dyno print out and videos to prove. This engine converts a lotus cortina into a monster that will out gun most 60s and 70s classics. Engine revs to well over 8000 rpm, the beauty of it is, with so much torque it quite happily purrs around town and has the mannerisms of any other lotus cortina, but then if you wish, pull out of a junction rev it, drop the clutch and it happily leaves 2 black lines for 60 metres up the road like no other lotus cortina I have ever driven. Also has front coil overs, adjustable TCA's, Ali hubs, Ali 4 pot callipers, suspension has been set up on corner weights to make this car handle and perform as good as anything. Car is weighing in approx 820KG. Interior very presentable, nice carpet, original door panels, original studded lotus steering wheel correct to a 64 car. New period bucket seats and willams harnesses which were put in to do the odd hill climb and sprint to which it got a lot of attention. People saying they have never seen a lotus cortina perform like this one. Original seats and centre console can be sold with the car. Very light minilite wheels, could be magnesium, brand new Avon ZZR race tyres which are basically a street legal slicks. To sum this car up, a monster of a lotus cortina with the very best of everything built on an open cheque book. I have owned and driven approx 20 Lotus Cortinas in the last 20 years and none, I repeat none perform like this car. Got to be one of the fastest road going Lotus Cortinas in the country, happily drive to a show on Sunday or be a serious competitor at any track day or hill climb, this car will do you proud. if you want to win trophies on concourse fields this definitely is NOT the car for you, as a lot of it is not correct to factory. If you are looking for a very rapid, drive any weather condition, hill climb stormer this is definitely the car for you. Engine today will cost £25k to build, Simpson exhaust 2.5k, do the rest of the sums for yourself. Priced very very fair, this car can easily go back to standard but why would you? Or you are half way there to make the ultimate race car. It will kill me to sell this car, do not need the money, so will not suffer fools lightly. Don't need the anorak boys to tell me what is right and what is wrong, know these cars inside out, some bits are right, some wrong, end of the day the car is a monster.
