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Barrett's #339 - Solved - Lotus Eleven GT racer
« on: October 30, 2012, 08:58:46 PM »
What exactly is this car? Full details for a point

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Re: Barrett's #339
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2012, 10:44:19 AM »
Where are all the rookies? Moving up....

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Re: Barrett's #339
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2012, 11:04:07 AM »
Marcos Luton Gullwing?

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Re: Barrett's #339
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2012, 12:52:14 PM »
Not a Marcos

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Re: Barrett's #339
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2012, 12:55:34 PM »
Ginetta ?

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Re: Barrett's #339
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2012, 12:56:31 PM »
Not Ginetta

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Re: Barrett's #339
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2012, 01:10:00 PM »
Lotus ?

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Re: Barrett's #339
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2012, 03:27:01 PM »
It is a Lotus...

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Re: Barrett's #339
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2012, 03:45:27 PM »
very similar to a Jaguar E Type!
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Re: Barrett's #339
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2012, 04:19:13 PM »
A rebodied Lotus XI fitted with a hard top so it could run as a GT car.
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Re: Barrett's #339
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2012, 06:30:12 AM »
That's right!

Naturally it has since been rebodied in original style, I have no idea what became of this bodywork though.

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Re: Barrett's #339 - Solved - Lotus Eleven GT racer
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2012, 12:54:41 PM »
Where was it raced?  I think the "Put a roof on an old sports/racer and call it a GT" formula was used in Britain , Australia and New Zealand in the sixties.  There were enough Elevens made that it probably complied with the "minimum number produced" requirements for a homologated GT car.
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Re: Barrett's #339 - Solved - Lotus Eleven GT racer
« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2012, 08:16:57 AM »
This one was raced in the UK as far as I know.