Lotus Story - a story about a famous Lotus 7 - and tales of other Lotus Sports Cars.

[Roger Dowding]

A story of a Lotus Seven,

What is believed to be the First Lotus Seven [ 7 ] in New Zealand
- Chassis Number S 1024 it is the series 2 version of the Lotus Seven Sports Car.
The Story [ History ] of the car was recently given to me with photos from 1960/61 until recently by the current owner.
Adrian Krzyzewski.

The story is largely in his own words with Photos, Programme / Entry Lists, Results, Newspaper articles and other pieces of information.

- first photos and the start of the " Lotus Story " to be added soon.

A photo of the car in 1961 - after the issue of new Number Plates in July 1961, the last of the 5 yearly plates, although these were only used for 4 years 1961 - 1965, with cars changing to permanent plates in July 1964, heavy vehicles and Commercial Taxi's etc in July 1965.

This photo is from Glen McIntyre's archives - he was involved with the cars second owner - more to come



Notes on the photo have the names of the first owners..