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Title: At Le Mans but not racing...
Post by: jbcollier on Saturday,November 01, 2014, 09:12:26 AM
On display at Le Mans in 1967.
Title: Re: At Le Mans but not racing...
Post by: EuropaTC on Saturday,November 01, 2014, 09:45:39 AM
Now that is a cool photograph, even badged as a "Europe" as well. How on earth did you find that one ?

Brian
Title: Re: At Le Mans but not racing...
Post by: jbcollier on Saturday,November 01, 2014, 10:36:43 AM
Off ebay.  I buy anything I can find on the S1s.  Most of it is posted on Jerry's site.  I have everything from original sales literature and press releases to a German soft porn magazine with an S1 article.
Title: Re: At Le Mans but not racing...
Post by: Bainford on Sunday,November 02, 2014, 08:08:43 AM
Very cool. Great pic indeed.
Title: Re: At Le Mans but not racing...
Post by: EuropaTC on Monday,November 03, 2014, 09:53:38 AM
Off ebay.  I buy anything I can find on the S1s. 

I also scour Ebay for period articles and recently managed to get a copy of the magazine carrying the advert from which I bought my own car. Yes, I should have kept the original copy but back in those days I didn't have this hankering for collating such things and once read, magazines went in the bin.   ::)

Anyway, I came across this and wondered have you seen (or got)  this one on Ebay UK ?  It sounds about the right date for a review on an early prototype or road-going S1.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUTOCAR-23-12-1966-featuring-Lotus-Europa-Vauxhall-Viva-/361089202130?pt=UK_Magazines&hash=item541297f7d2 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUTOCAR-23-12-1966-featuring-Lotus-Europa-Vauxhall-Viva-/361089202130?pt=UK_Magazines&hash=item541297f7d2)

Brian
Title: Re: At Le Mans but not racing...
Post by: 3929R on Monday,November 03, 2014, 03:13:28 PM
 :coolpic:

... a German soft porn magazine with an S1 article.
OK, this has peaked my curiosity.
Title: Re: At Le Mans but not racing...
Post by: blasterdad on Monday,November 03, 2014, 05:33:45 PM
:coolpic:

... a German soft porn magazine with an S1 article.
OK, this has peaked my curiosity.

Which one?  :FUNNY:
Title: Re: At Le Mans but not racing...
Post by: jbcollier on Monday,November 03, 2014, 05:52:44 PM
Yup, I have that magazine already. One of the first articles in Car on the Europa uses one of the earlier names being kicked around: the "Concorde".  I just picked up:

- first press release for the roll out of the S2 (54) in England,

- press release for the "GS" Europa conversion

- Italian S2 and Seven brochure, and

- a newspaper proof of an S1 on display at a car show in November of 1967.

All soon(ish) to be up on Jerry's site.

The German "gentleman's" magazine is ER. A temporarily-available cover shot of an issue with an article on the S2 can be found here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331361142344

The issue I have is from '67 and is on the S1.