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Formerly a Lotus Factory test car

First season of racing. Joined the Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship this year. 

Raced in early years and now in Healey Sport Championships with AH300 and HRDC in Truimph 2000

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First season of racing. Joined the Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship this year.

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Over its life has had a Spyder chassis fitted and now a new engine. Believed to be used for many years as a track day car and now heading off to the hills.

Competed in the PMSLC for several years, along with some circuit racing in more recent years..

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Competed in hill climbs/sprints since 2004.  Good track experience in UK and France.

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Competed in hill climbs/sprints since 1999.  Extensive track experience both in the UK and France.

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Competed in the PMSLC for several years, with a few Championship Ladies Prize firsts.

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Metallic blue with white stripe.  Now dual-driving with husband, Steve.

Driven with some success in the PMSLC for several years in various Lotuses and am now dual=driving the Elan with my wife, Jane.

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White Ladies Aston

Third season in the PMSLC

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Third year competing in the Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship

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Complete first season of racing in the Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship. Looking forward to going even faster!

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Ex-Richard Winter (Banks Service Station).  Highly successful on the circuits in Historic Formula Ford racing.  Finished in original Gold Leaf livery.

6th Season of hill climbing.

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3rd season of competine and 2nd year in the Paul Matty Lotus Championship.

This is my first season.  I will be dual driving with Grayham Parker.

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Scholar race 1.9 K series with a sequential gearbox.  Was a rally car and is now a sprint and hill climb car.

Been competing in the paul matty lotus championship for many years

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1971

Married to Barbara for 40 years with two grown up sons.  I am chief executive of a group of companies whose activities include silver refining, white lining of roads and airfields, mineral distribution and aircraft passenger comfort products.

Competed in the Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship for 10 years, the last six years in the Lotus 51

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This will be my 14th year in the Championship.

Previous cars were a Europa Twincam 1999-2009 and an Elise 2011-2013.

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‘Special’ built for circuit racing and then modified for hill climbing.  Used by two previous PMSCLC drivers.

After doing the odd Club event with the Lotus Driver’s Club at Wellesbourne more years ago than I care to remember or admit to, I started hill climbing with a Lotus Elan +2 (the family car which we still own).  I then progressed to the Ian Walker Race Elan, now in the possession of and raced by Martin Stretton.

I have raced the 20/22 for around 9 years or so and love driving a single-seater.

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This is my 10th year competing in the PMSLC,  nine years in my Lotus 61.

I have been first on handicap in a few race meetings over the years, and managed to get FTD at a Prescott meeting.

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I have been a Lotus fanatic almost from the cradle. After gaining much experience I started Paul Matty Sports Cars in 1976 and am still crazy about Lotus cars after all these years.

This will be our 25th season of the Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship.  When I formed it all those years ago, I never imagined it would have lasted so long, or evolved into what it is today.  I am very proud of the Championship and the great bunch of people who take part in it.  There have been some great friendships formed which, had it not been for the Championship, would probably never have happened.

Started hill climbing at the tender age of 40 after competing in the odd track day, Club sprints etc. and formed the Lotus Championship the very next year.   I have been competing in the Lotus 35 F2 for a few years now, and still enjoy it immensely.  No major changes again for this season, still chasing a sub-31 seconds at Shelsley.  Ah, maybe one day!  More competition this year in the form of Malcom Thorne’s 35.  Let the battle commence!

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The only Lotus 35 fitted with a Lotus twin cam engine, the car was found in a derelict state in a museum in Germany by James Hunt (sadly, not THE James Hunt).  The irony of it was he popped in to see me and asked if I wanted to buy it, but I declined.

He sold it to a man who took it to Peter Denty for restoration.  After it was fully restored, the man drove the car a couple of times then put it up for sale.  It was purchased by a friend of mine and after 12 months he sold it to me.

Clean license, unsure how,  Started competing in 2013.

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Bought in 2013, it’s pretty much a standard S1 Elise.  It started out grey but then I crashed it where Uncle John said that I shouldn’t, so I mended it and resprayed it white with a burgundy stripe.  There’s a rear spoiler like you’d find on an Elise Sport 160 and it has slightly poncy two-tone alloys that I painted with some £5 rattle cans.  It’s a pretty car on the outside but still a complete shed on the inside – the seats are more threadbare than a tramp’s underpants.  The engine internals are as they were when they left the factory and are still going strong after 104,000 miles (a testament to Rover K-Series reliability!!), but there’s a fancy 4-2-1 exhaust manifold and larger bore backbox bolted onto it.  It’s got slightly newer Bilstein dampers from an S2 Elise and I’ve fitted some brake discs (AP) and pads (Carbon Lorraine) that actually stop the car.  Jon Dobson and Pete Bottrill can confirm that the spark plugs are in good working order, as of May 2015.  There’s a sticker with an image of the Hindu god, Ganesh on the side of the car (for good luck) and the stereo has stopped working.  I can’t work out why so it’s just acting as ballast.

Started out with a 1985 1.2L Vauxhall Nova (the ugly one with the enormous boot).  Graduated to a mighty 1.4L Peugeot with 75bhp before assuming the Lotus position in 2001 with an S2 Elise.  Current fleet includes a 1999 S1 Lotus Elise, a 2000 Lotus 340R and a couple of practical German runabouts.

I have been competing in hill climbs since 1999, first of all in the Lotus Elan which I bought from Harry Metcalfe of “EVO” magazine fame.  I then sold the Elan and bought my Lotus 69.  I have won the Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship outright twice in the Elan and managed to win on scratch three times in the 69.  I changed the 1600 BDD engine (which was originally built by Nicholson McLaren) for a 2 litre BDG in 2011.  For 2012 I replaced the CWP in the gearbox.  There are no modifications planned for 2017.  The car has already scored some class records and is one of the quickest in the current group.

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The Lotus 69 was a works car built for Peter Wardle in 1970 and raced for 2 years in the “Yellow Pages” Atlantic series.  It was then sold to South Africa and again raced in the Atlantic series.  It was restored in 1999 then returned to the UK in 2000 and raced in the Historic F2 class.  The designer, Dave Baldwin used square tube for the chassis which proved to be stiffer and stronger than the conventional round tube.  

Originally road-rallied in an Elan and Cortina.  Joined PMSC Championship 10 years ago.

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Originally built by Rhoddy Harvey Bailey who fitted a 2.0 litre V8 Climax to a 23 chassis.  Now in hillclimbed by Jos Randalles with Maserati engine in 60’s. Now in 23B Twin Cam spec.

Vice Chairman or Chairman of the Lotus Drivers Club during the 80’s and early 90’s. Also ran a Lotus restoration business ‘Excalibre Engineering’ on a part time basis. This ceased in 1994 as I became too busy working on my +2 and also tired of long cold nights in the garage!

Hillclimbing and Sprinting is just right for me as I get too tired driving competitively for much over a minute

Of life – too much. Have competed in the PMS Championship virtually since its inception in the early 90’s

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Purchased the car in January 1975.

Engine
Built by myself.
BDT alloy block bored to 87mm.
Dry sumped
Farndon steel crank and rods
Omega Forged Pistons
New QED head machined by Exon Racing
QED 450 cams
Fuel injected & DTA engine management mapped by QED
No distributor, crank sensing.
Custom built (BTB) stainless, side exit, exhaust system
Ark Racing geared starter
Power 204 bhp @ 6,700
Torque 182 lb ft @ 5,000

Gearbox
Quaife 4 speed close ratio synchro box 2.25 1st (self built)
Mag case
Alloy bell housing
Alloy tail shaft
Concentric clutch slave cylinder (Ark Racing)

Final Drive
4.4 CWP (original Ford)
Quaife torque sensing LSD
Alloy diff nose
Magnesium diff carrier
TT output shafts
Spyder drive shafts (incl 1 rotoflex)
Spyder output drive shafts.

Chassis
Spyder space frame

Suspension
Spyder solid bushed wishbones
Front and rear also rose jointed for adjustment

Brakes
Dual circuit
Wilwood Dynalite 4 pot front calipers
Std rear callipers with handbrake mechanism removed

Wheels and Tyres
Front – 8 inch wide 13″ Minilites
8.2×20 Avon crossply slicks
Rear – 9 inch wide Minilites
9.0×20 Av

Only previous Lotus was an Elan S3 S/E built in June 1967 (LJB618E) from a kit bought from Mike Spence’s garage in Reading. Kept it for 3 years and sold it after rolling it and somewhat losing confidence. Rebuilt by Bell and Colvill I sold it for £950. Oh dear!

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Formerly a Lotus Factory test car

Varied history!

Joined the Championship in it’s second year and still enjoying it 25 years later.

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My possession since 1987.  Used for competition since mid-1970’s.

Started hillclimbing with Paul at the very beginning and have been in the Championship ever since.

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Original owner Rikki von Opel of the Open car family.  The car ran at Monaco and now supports a derestricted full house all steel twin cam.

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Slightly more streamline so I might travel slightly faster…

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No changes but still my pride and joy!

Raced in Vauxhall School Championship in the 1990’s.  

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Rebuilt by previous owner with some 26R parts as quick road car/hill climb car.

Competed in hill climbs and sprints for several years in ASWMC Championships.  Sharing with wife, Flora.

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Ex-Sid Mayler HSCC race winning car

HSCC winning car.

Sharing the car with husband, John. Competed in ASWMC Championship events (sprints and hills), but nowhere near as many years as John has been competing. 

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Ex-Sid Mayler HSCC race winning car.

Had a year off and now back for this season.

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UUK 700G (Eric) was orignally registered in Wolverhampton in October 1968 (I don’t know whether it was kit built) and changed hands many, many times in the 70s, so much that the original log book was filled and renewed in the 70s.  The car gradually drifted South and ended up in Bristol in the early 80s.  It was allegedly rebuilt in the early – mid 80s by “an engineer” working at the Lotus factory (Paul still maintains that looks like a Lotus fix, and with lots of sound-deadening stuck everywhere there’s nothing to suggest this is true).  Certainly since I bought the car from Paul in 1987 I’ve only managed to lose, replace or simply break any original parts the car once had.  I daren’t weigh it.

The bits I’ve lost are mainly small screws and trim items, mainly bits of carpet and sound-deadening that were once properly stuck down but now aren’t.

Now entering 3rd year of competing in the Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship. Previously competed in Sprints some 25 years ago.

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I have been competing in the Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Champtionship for 12 years now.

I have been trying to drive fast/competitively for a lot of years in Mini Cooper ‘S’s, Mallocks, Lotus 7’s, Caterham 7, Lotus 61 and now a new challenge of a road going car.

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Ex John Crook and Ex Vanessa Lee car

Son of Len Swindall. “Bentley Boys” mechanic and Rolls Royce Merlin development engineer. Time served locomotive engineer, thence 15 years sea-going engineer and 32 years ship management.

35 years in competition with a total of over 300 sprints and hill climbs.  7 times class winner Scottish Sprint Championship.  Runner up PMS Championship once.

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S4:  Built from kit in 1970.  530,000 miles.  300+ competition events.

S3:  Purchased 2001.  Rebuilt 2000/2004.  26,000 miles.  22 competition events.

I have been competing in hill climbs  and sprints since 2003 in the following cars:

Ginetta G12, TVR Vixwen, Dastle F3 single seater and the Lotus Elan.

HSA Competitor of the Year in 2012, TVR Speed Championship Class A Champion in 2012, TVR Hill Climber of the Year 2010-2014, Classic Marques Speed Championship Winner 2013, TVR Speed Championship Winner 2013.  Classic Marques Brit Sports Champion 2016, Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship 2016 and 2017 runner up. HSA Champion 2018,  Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship winner 2018 and 2019

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I purchased the car from Paul Matty in November 2012.  It is a one-owner car but was “tired”.  The car has now been stripped back to the chassis and fully rebuilt for motor sport.  It is still road legal.

Competed in Motorsport since  1968.  Motoring News Rally Championship.  PRO Series Rally championship USA.  Hill climbing since 1998.  Competed in Paul Matty Sportscars Lotus Championship since 2000 in various Lotus, mainly in Lotus Expose and won Championship in 2016.

Won Paul Matty Sportscars lotus Championship 2016 and 2017

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Purchased in Germany in 2015, rebuilt summer 2015.  Won Championship in 2016

First owned by Neil Ginn, Scotland.  Spent several years in Austria.  Purchased from Uli Blumelhuber (BMW Motorsport) Germany.

2015 totally renovated and optimised for hill climb events.

I raced a lightweight mod prod Lotus Europa until a few years ago, when I swopped to the Lotus 7 S4.  Now competing in the 23B which I bought in 2015.

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Purchased in 2015 for this season.

This will be my fifth year of motorsport activity, having competed for four years with, and being tolerated by, Paul Matty Lotus Championship.

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Last year was the first year of use with the car in standard road-going trim.  Over the winter the suspension has been lowered and stiffened and the ECU modified, so we hope for minor improvements.

Acquired for 2016 Season.

ACOC Betty Haig Trophy 2013

ACOC Betty Haig Trophy 2014

PMSCLC Ladies Winner 2014

PMSCLC Third Place Winner

Previous seasons have been in various Elise’s.  2017 began ‘single-seater experiences’.

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Originally raced in France, hence the French blue colour.  It was brought back to the UK and previously owned Mrs June Matty since 2008.  Competed in the PMSLC with it ever since.

Paul Matty Championship Handicap winner 2014.  ACOC Brooklands Trophy FTD Goodwood 2013.

Chateau Impney HC Class record holder 2016 in Lotus 15 Buick.

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F3 1000cc screamer later transformed to F2 twincam.