Promoting Lotus Cars throughout Chicago
Jimmy Clark’s Indy winning Lotus on display in the Henry Ford Museum, in what Andrew Ferguson called “…disgusting condition” The crazed and broken fiberglass is hard to see, but the bent suspension arms are very obvious. The Henry Ford Museum, located in
The Elise continues to he a popular subject in the die cast model world.. as we will see in this month’s newsletter. For those of you who may have missed the Matchbox release of the Elise S1 a few years ago, you are
This month. I thought we would look at the Lotus Seven. It’s quite a remarkable feat of Lotus engineering that this car has survived to this day, through various guises and ownership. It appears to he a pretty popular model in the diecast
Minichamps, or Paul’s Model Art, is another Chinese company that has released probably thousands of die cast vehicles in all forms of racing. Their subject matter ranges from street, formula one, IRL/Cart, and rally 1/43 scale models. Recently they have also gone into the
It deserves to be the biggest novelty single of all time. But it didn’t even make Top of the Pops. Shame. ‘Team Lotus Sings’ (oh the irony) was recorded to celebrate Emerson Fittipaldi’s 1972 world title. A rousing choir of mechanics belt out The Champions (in
This month we will continue to focus on Lotus in the Formula One years..or Grand Prix as they were known, with a collection of Quartzo die casts in 1: 18 scale. Those of you familiar with Quartzo also know they released many 1/43
Well, it’s a new year, and what better way to start the year than with a few Lotus goodies to add to your collection … and drain your checkbook at the same time! I thought I would focus on the formula one models
Hard to believe that December is already here, and Christmas is just around the corner … but, if you have been good this year, maybe there is still time to get a little lotus present for yourself!! We will continue with the
The Elise appears to be a great success in the US, and luckily, riding on it’s coattails, there are plenty of die-cast Elise models for the collector! This month we will focus on the 1:18 scale die-cast Elise, both in S1 and S2
It seems that this has been a buyers market this year on Lotus items, as new die cast continue to he available in all sorts of guises. Plenty for everyone, so let’s get started! A few years ago. McDonald’s offered an Elise