Description:

This is the fastest, best prepared and maintained Lotus 61 in the world. I've owned and raced it for over ten years. It is absolutely race ready, needs only to be fueled, then "kick the tires and Light The Fires". Every system has been optimized for reliability and performance. I will explain all systems in-depth to purchase inquiries, and you will learn the (Monoposto legal) secrets of this car. This car has the best brakes of any historic formula Ford and I will teach the buyer the secrets of threshold braking. I'm 63 years old, 6 foot tall and 250 pounds. I not only fit in the car but beat almost everybody except skinny youngsters in Titans. The purchase price includes all my formula Ford spares since I plan to upgrade to a formula Continental. I had originally planned to retire from racing but my wife said "No!". Am I lucky, or not? Instead, I plan to upgrade to a Continental and try my luck with wings and ground effects.


History

Approx 160 Lotus 61's were built. I'm the 5th owner. After a one year/one thousand hour restoration in 2001 I began racing it with HMSA, HSR-W, CVAR and CSRG. (It's had three frame-off restorations since). From 2003-09 I finished 3rd or 4th every year in the HSR-W Pacific FF series, 2nd in 2009 in the "Formula Ford: the SERIES" championship, and overall champion in the HSR-W Lotus Sports Challenge every year from 2003 until the series was ended in 2009. Photo's of the car have been published in Victory Lane and Vintage Racecar magazines, and it made the cover of the May, 2010 issue of Victory Lane. The car was published on the HMSA website for a seven part frame-off restoration. (www.hmsausa.com/news/releases/lotus_1.html) I average 150 hours of prep for race weekends and have a 95% finishing rate. The last race was the 2011 Coronado Speed Festival (Sept 24-25) where I won the "USS Ronald Reagan Cup".

Competition History

Refer to History above. See photo section for my "I Love Me" photo of trophies earned in the car.
Performance Data

• FF
  
• 945 lbs
  
• 1:54 sec
  
• California Speedway (now Auto Club Speedway)
  

Engine

• CarLynne Racing
  
• Ford
  
• Uprated (Cortina block)
  
• 1600cc
  
• 110 +/-
  
• Ivey prepared Weber 32/36DGV carb. Fuel delivery system optimized (write for the secrets)
  
• Ivey
  
• Ford Cortina
  
• Uprated
  
• Steel
  
• Forged
  
• Forged
  
• Blueprinted FF
  
• FOMOCO
  
• Lightened, balanced, shimmed, peened
  
• Solid center racing
  
• FF racing diaphram
  
• 17#, balanced to crank and pressure plate
  
• Header with 4 into 2 into 1 collector, 2
  
• 40 hr SMOH
  
• 6 since overhaul
  
• Dry sump, Holbay front drive pump, pressure 85psi cold, 20+psi idle after racing
  

Fuel System

• 
  
• ATL
  
• 9 yrs
  
• 3 1/2 gal
  
• Elect & Mech
  
• 110 octane leaded
  

Oil/Water System

• 3 core, controlled bleed to expansion tank
  
• Front
  
• Engine mount, Gilmer underdrive pulley
  
• 10
  
• Faired into engine cover
  

Electrical System

• FoMoCo, Nology coil & wires
  
• None, total loss system
  
• Sealed, cockpit floor mount
  

Transmission

• Hewland
  
• Mark 6
  
• 4 forward, 1 backward
  
• Rt side, 'H' pattern
  
• 2 yr SMOH
  
• 15 gear sets with car
  

Rear End

• VW
  
• IRS
  
• 8:31
  
• Hewland
  
• Open per Monoposto
  
• Volvo Turbo Donuts and axle savers
  
• 1 race on donuts
  
• New bearings in uprights
  

Body

• Fiberglass
  
• Blue and Gold
  
• (unsure) It was expensive
  
• Excellent
  
• Professionally painted by Concours Body Shop, Reno, NV
  

Chassis

• Space frame
  
• Arch Motors
  
• Tubular steel
  
• Painted
  
• Perfect
  
• Double wishbone, coil over shock, sway bar
  
• Wishbone and link to upright, control arms, coil over shocks, sway bar
  
• Carrera QA-1, single adjust 12 setting, 3 years old
  
• All new pads & rotors, Cockpit bias adjuster
  
• Rack and pinion
  
• 5 1/2 X 13
  
• Dunlop FF Spec
  

Interior

• Black
  
• Paint, Naugahyde seat, Leather steering wheel cover
  
• Safecraft 5# Halon, cockpit & engine nozzles
  
• Racequip 6 point camlock FIA, 3 yrs left
  
• Mech chronograph tach, elect water temp/oil press, fuel pres
  
• MOMO open top, leather cover
  
• Brake bias asjuster, Brake/rain light switch
  

Spares

• Alignment bars, toe-in trammel, over-center jack
  
• 15 gear sets, old gearbox case for provenance
  
• Gearbox setup/alignment tools, 3 blocks, 3 cranks, 3 piston sets
  
• complete spare ignition system, new oil pump, Heims, AN fittings, gearbox shims
  
• Full set alloy wheels/tires, dogrings, 3 sets rods
  
• Custom refueling system and bulk tank refueling
  
• This just touches the surface, more complete list with inquiry.
  
• Original seat for a thinner driver