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	Lotus Seven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lotus Seven is a small, simple, lightweight two-seater open-top sports car from Lotus, which has been called "a motorcycle on four wheels".
		In 1970, Lotus radically changed the shape of the car to create the Series 4 (S4), which was not widely accepted.
		In the original Seven, the front lower A arm (or wishbone) suspension configuration is fairly traditional, but for the purpose of reducing cost - the upper suspension integrated an anti-roll (anti-sway) bar into a horizontal suspension arm.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lotus_Seven (2005 words)

	Caterham 7 Road Test - Club Lotus Avon
		Lotus produced the Seven from 1957 through to 1973, when the rights to produce the Seven were passed from Lotus to Caterham.
		The Seven looks almost the same as it always did; at a quick glance you could be forgiven for thinking that nothing had changed, however, today's Seven probably shares only its overall looks with the original Seven and nothing more.
		The Seven only needs a flick of the finger or a twitch of the toe to drive the car, as you are thinking round corners, thinking in straight lines ahead.
	www.ferraritestarossa.net /clublotus/caterham7_test.htm (851 words)

	Lotus 7 History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Lotus 7 was originally conceived in the middle 1950s as an inexpensive sports car to be used in British sports car club racing.
		Lotus soon began producing a more powerful Super 7 with a 75 hp 1098cc engine and a 4 speed transmission which accelerated the car to 60 mph in about 9 seconds.
		In 1966 Lotus moved to a new factory and decided that it was time to retire the 7, but Graham Nearn of Caterham Cars effectively saved the Lotus 7 from oblivion by ordering a substantial quantity of cars, just when new factory car orders had dwindled.
	www.utahlotusmuseum.com /id90.htm (771 words)

	Caterham Lotus Super Seven British Roadster
		Originally a Lotus distributor, from 1973 onward the manufacturing rights were acquired from Lotus and Caterham officially became the new source of the Lotus Seven, from then on called "Caterham" Seven.
		The so-called "long cockpit design, preserved the internals and external dimenions of the original Lotus, except it moved the rear bulkhead back by a couple inches to create more legroom and allowed use of adjustable seats, as not everyone was or is identical to Colin Chapman with a 5'8" stature.
		Characteristic for a Seven is the razor sharp handling and the open wheel racer seating position.
	my.voyager.net /~quadrant19/whats-a-seven.html (764 words)

	Simon's Locost Clubman Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first Seven was built in 1957 by Lotus, the brainchild of Colin Chapman, who was convinced of the advantages of small lightweight racing cars, giving huge power to weight benefits.
		He actually referred to the Seven as something he had dreamed of designing since he was a schoolboy - a 'four wheeled motorbike'.
		The first sevens were priced at £587 and were powered by a 40bhp Ford engine coupled to a single dry plate clutch and a three speed Ford gearbox.
	www.adelgigs.com /history.shtml (335 words)

	Lotus Cars - Lotus Elise, Elan, Esprit, Excel And Caterham Seven from UKsportscars.Com UK
		I love Lotus cars - my first was a Lotus Elan Plus Two, bought a couple of years after my brother had owned one.
		There was also a big demand for Caterham Sevens, these being a derivative of the original Lotus Seven.
		The Lotus Elise has become a firm favourite at the shows and is attracting the Caterham Seven owner, as this model is more practical, but retaining the sheer exhilarating fun of a car designed for sheer driving pleasure.
	www.uksportscars.com (664 words)

	Lotus Seven - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Lotus Seven is a small, simple, lightweight two-seater open-top sports car, which has been called 'a motorcycle on four wheels'.
		In 1970, Lotus radically changed the shape of the car to create the Series 4 (S4), which was not widely loved.
		An S2 Lotus 7 driven by star Patrick McGoohan was featured in the opening credits of the 1967-1968 television series The Prisoner.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Lotus_Seven (2084 words)

	Tamiya America Item #10201 \| Caterham Super Seven BDR
		Lotus history began in the late 1940's when Chapman built a racing car in his backyard, using assorted parts from other cars, and then successfully competed with it in local races.
		The Lotus Seven was a direct development of his successful Lotus Mk.VI racer of 1953.
		Although the Lotus Seven proved a big success, Lotus was heavily involved with Formula One Racing, and this led to a ceasing of production of the Seven in 1973.
	www.tamiyausa.com /product/item.php?product-id=10201 (533 words)

	Co-Brand: Driving Today
		A manufacturer of racing boots, Lewis was a well-known Lotus racer, and by 1956 he was in the market for a small, light car suitable for driving in hillclimbs, a popular British diversion at the time.
		So he promised to build Lewis an all-new Lotus, to be named the VII (or, eventually, Seven,) if Lewis would give him the Special back to use as a development vehicle.
		Finally, as summer was turning to fall in 1957, Lotus completed vehicle #400, the Lotus Seven prototype that it had promised Lewis nearly a year before.
	www.drivingtoday.com /cobrand/greatest_cars/lotus7 (1283 words)

	COLIN CHAPMAN AND LOTUS CARS \| DIRECTORY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS \| VEHICLE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY \| CONCEPT CARS.
		Lotus had arrived, and new cars were being ordered in sufficient numbers for Chapman and Mike Costin to give up their day jobs and work for Lotus full time on 1st January 1955.
		Lotus was the only team he ever drove for, and he was one of Chapman's closest friends; the two quiet personalities seemed to match.
		Lotus were involved because they were approached by Delorean to put the finishing touches to the troublesome chassis design (they scrapped it and used an Esprit chassis, a fact which was kept quiet at the time).
	www.speedace.info /lotus.htm (4968 words)

	John Donohoe's Wife's Lotus Seven ;-)
		Not long after obtaining the Seven, Ted contacted John Watson, the world registrar of Lotus Sevens, and heard that the car was originally built with a 948cc Sprite motor - a Seven America.
		After "updating" it with 6-inch Lotus steel wheels, aluminum rocker cover, 12 inch red leather steering wheel, etc, Doug tired of the car, "trading it in" on a Caterham Seven, which left the little Lotus sitting back at the dealer amongst the newest Porsches, Panoz, Lotus Elise's and Caterhams.
		I learned from the Lotus Seven Registry in England that this particular Seven (#B1135) was imported by Sy Kaback (the record says "Kabach" --must be the English spelling!) having left the factory at Cheshunt on June 8, 1961.
	www.simplesevens.org /donohoe.htm (1365 words)

	Classic Cars Page
		Lotus cars are always minimalist, therefore they are lightweight but lack of luxury and practicality.
		The latest Seven Superlight R concentrated on further weight reduction, and it is still described as the most exciting car to drive.
		In 1994, Lotus relaunched the Elan as S2, with many tweaks to improve build quality and attention to details, although new emission control led to a drop of 10 horsepower.
	www.autozine.org /classic/lotus.htm (2777 words)

	Alice in Lotusland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One Lotus Seven racer tells us, "I just spent $2,000 on the differential sitting in the back of my truck, but I'm not sure if I'm going to use that or the one currently in the car.
		Always the thinking Lotus owners, we had arranged with our friend Steve to keep in phone contact in case we needed to attach a rental trailer to his truck and haul my car home.
		We were barely part of the Lotus street cars, never did the parade laps and are not in the Lotus group photo.
	www.elcc.org /articles/lotuslnd.htm (1759 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Lotus (Team Lotus)
		The Lotus 25 was the first monocoque chassis in F1, the 49 was the first car of note to use the engine as a stressed member and the 72 broke new ground in aerodynamics.
		In the mid-1970s, however, Lotus engineers began to investigate aerodynamic ground-effect and the Lotus 79 of 1978 was extraordinarily successful with Mario Andretti winning the World Championship.
		Former Team Lotus employees Peter Collins and Peter Wright organized a deal to take over the team from the Chapman Family and in December the new Team Lotus was launched with Mika Hakkinen and Julian Bailey being signed for the 1991 season.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-lotus.html (1422 words)

	Lotus History
		Lotus enlarged the backbone chassis of the Elan and kept the Twin Cam engine, the disc brakes, the independent suspension; but was able to offer two jump seats and a roomier cabin.
		The Lotus 72 used variable rate torsion bar springs at both front and rear, front inboard disc brakes, the continuation of the wedge aerodynamic bodywork, multiple element rear wing and side radiators.
		This Lotus designed and engineered racecar was part manufactured by RTN, the team responsible for the Le Mans winning Bentley, using the latest motorsport techniques and procedures to produce a lightweight yet strong carbonfibre bodywork structure around the standard road-going Lotus Exige Aluminium extruded and bonded chassis.
	www.hazelnet.org /lotus (5645 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lotus added a manifold for a DCOE 40 Weber and a set of tube headers to the stock Ford.
		As a result, the rear end housing will bend and distort assuming, of course, that you don't snap a halfshaft with three times the design horsepower.
		The Lotus solution, sort of, to the rear end distorting was to weld reinforcing plate the length of the rear end.
	www.seanet.com /users/clauded/lot.html (534 words)

	Lotus Seven Register - Home Page
		All information on the site is taken from original Lotus sales brochures, Lotus factory records, Lotus Seven Owners Manuals and the catalogues of the companies that supplied Lotus then.
		As ever, we are always learning so if you have any specialist or insider knowledge concerning the manufacturer or racing of the Lotus Seven, I would be very glad to hear from you.
		If you are looking to buy or sell a LOTUS SEVEN or you own, have owned, or you are restoring one; you may find the Lotus Sevens List of interest.
	www.lotus7register.co.uk (409 words)

	SUPER SEVEN
		Detailing for the first time, the many seven derivatives that have been manufactured the world over, it is the result of two decades of research about a car that was too good to let die.
		Lotus Seven, yellow cover, 1995 edition, covers only the Lotus Seven and has a large chapter about the Lotus Seven in motor sport.
		It may not be quite true to say that no two Sevens were alike, but the fact that they were sold as kits of parts for owners to build goes a long way towards explaining why there are so many individual differences.
	www.lotus-books.com /html/body_super_seven.html (1493 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lotus and Caterham Seven: Racers for the Road (Crowood AutoClassic S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thirty-five years after it was first built, the Lotus Seven continues to encapsulate the Lotus founder's ideals for an affordable sports racer: it makes few compromises, yet is equally at home on the road as on the track and it can be built by a mechanical novice.
		This book chronicles the saga of the Lotus Seven including the series 2 and 3 during the 1960s - when it won fame in "The Prisoner" TV series.
		Caterham continues to build the Super Seven and John Tipler shows how the various structural components of the car are manufactured, and interviews key figures in the Seven's evolution.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1852238585 (425 words)

	Nimble Cars: Seven
		The Seven debuted at the Earls Court Motor Show in London in October 1957, and the price was $1643.
		Rights to the Seven were passed on to Caterham who continues to produce the car to this day.
		Because the car has been produced for over forty years, with many different power plants and recently some changes forced by parts being out of production, it is difficult to exactly describe the car.
	www.sandsmuseum.com /cars/seven (252 words)

	Lotus Seven Club
		Caterham as the official enthusiast's club for Sevens, and we are affiliated to the MSA in order that we may promote competitive driving events.
		In order to make Barbara's life a little easier, and to save her re-typing what you send her, we have set up a form to allow you to register an interest in the Curborough sprint in May.
		We wish the new team the same success that Graham, David and Simon have brought to the company and the Seven, and we wish the outgoing team all the best for the future, and thank them for being such good custodians of the legend.
	www.lotus7club.co.uk (1116 words)

	Lotus Seven Series II SB2039 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of those was a Lotus Elise, and it was more fun than anything else I had ever driven.
		By the end of April, after chasing down a number of leads and even speaking with folks at Lotus, USA, I had given up on the Elise fantasy and decided to go for a Seven because of it's similarly stark, raw, purpose-built nature.
		DSK Cars was a well known East Coast builder of Caterham Sevens as well as suppliers of parts and upgrade kits for all Sevens.
	www.atspeedimages.com /sb2039.html (909 words)

	Lotus Seven & The Independents by D Ortenburger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Lotus Seven has lasted longer than anyone could have expected and is still in production after 47 years in Caterham form.
		This comprehensive history of the Seven and the independents chronicles the development of the Lotus then Caterham Seven after a brief history of the Lotus Mark 6 that was the Seven`s predecessor at Lotus.
		This book is the definitive Seven reference and is a must buy for any fan of these minimalist sports cars - or the replicas.
	www.bevenyoung.com.au /prdt633.htm (178 words)

	1959 Lotus Seven information, specifications, history, and images.
		The Lotus Seven was the successor to the Lotus Mark 6 and was in production from 1957 through 1972.
		The United States versions were dubbed the Seven America and were equipped with Austin-Healey Sprite engines outputting 43 horsepower.
		The Super Seven SV is the largest of all the Seven's.
	www.conceptcarz.com /vehicle/default.aspx?carID=8011 (708 words)

	1959 Lotus Seven information, specifications, history, and images. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was introduced to the public at the Earls Court Motor Show in London in October of 1957.
		With a zero-to-sixty time of 3.4 seconds and a top speed of 146 miles-per-hour, it is by far the quickest and fastest of the Sevens.
		The Seven has been so successful in racing that in 1976 it was banned because it was too fast.
	www.conceptcarz.com /vehicle/default.aspx?car_id=8011 (708 words)

	GOLDEN GATE LOTUS CLUB - Lotus Car Club
		As a non-profit club, the GGLC (formed in 1972) based in Northern California and is dedicated to serving the Lotus enthusiast and preserving the rich history and tradition of Lotus.
		The GGLC is dedicated to serving the Lotus enthusiast and preserving the rich history and tradition of Lotus.
		The GGLC is one of the oldest and largest Lotus enthusiast clubs in the world.
	www.gglotus.org (317 words)

	Lotus
		Between 1951 and 1959 Lotus produces the mark III in 1951, the Mark VI in 1952, the mark VIII in 1954, the Mark IX and X in 1955.
		At this point Lotus moved the engine to the rear with the Eighteen followed later by the Nineteen, Twenty Three, 30 and 40 of 1965, this being the last sports racing car to be built by Lotus.
		Following the death of Colin Chapman the Lotus company was purchased by General Motors in late 1985.
	www.brooklands-books.com /pages/lotusroadtest.html (1072 words)

	Lotus Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This classic volume documents all Lotus road cars from the legendary Lotus Seven through the lastest 300bhp Lotus Sport 300.
		Lotus sports cars are among the very best.
		This full color book features stunning photography of the Lotus Seven; the cheeky 'pocket rocket' Elan and Elan Sprint; the new generation four-seater Elite; the mid-engined two-seater coupe S1, S2, S3, Esprit, and Esprit Turbo, plus a whole lot more!
	www.britbooks.com /lotusheritage.html (103 words)

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