"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 01:20:10 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


Actually, Chapman already designed the Lotus 8, and wished that he
hadn't.
The Lotus 9 was developed into the Budweiser beer can and has changed
life
as we know it.

Ed Huntress

My life is forever changed because of it.

Whats a Lotus 9?

I don't know. It probably never made it off the drawing board. Or maybe it
was one of the small open-wheelers.

The 8 was a one-off, a design exercise toward the purest possible space
frame. It turned out to be a backfire, construction-wise, because it
required a lot of add-on assemblies to be a practical car. But it raced, and
it was a good one.

The 10, IIRC, was a tiny front-engined car like the 11. The Lotus 11 was a
major design, one of the last of the little front-engined racing sports cars
made for the 1100 cc class. Somebody is building replicas. It's a wild
little thing.

Ed Huntress