The coolest jam sandwich on the planet!

This guy's great to listen to chatting about his car. Really calmly enthusiastic.

I also had a mk2 cortina lotus...fabulous car back in 1970... unbeatable...except by rust!

Wow!!..What a fantastic story

Good to see this and it proves the original Lotus Cortina did have 5.5 inch J section rims. It appears to me that a lot of the restored ones seem to have even wider rims. The dash is exactly like my Mk II 69 GT

What a beautiful car. I used to own a 67 1600E Cortina years ago now wish I still had it

@datbs

5 ай бұрын

Yes it’s lovely unique car this one

Good work, Jim!

I owned a 2 door 1967 Lotus Cortina in the mid nineteen seventies, regrettably sold it

Brilliant video,and fantastic resto,what agent, lovely to see it back to original,superb.

Yes this is a pretty cool car and a great story what do others think

What an incredible story the car is fantastic nicely done

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Thank you William

Fantastic story - Really enjoyed this!

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

What a stunner, miss my mk2 1600GT (TOF264H) 👌🏻😎

@datbs

2 ай бұрын

Yes Martin a very special car , what happened to yours ?

@martiniv8924

2 ай бұрын

@@datbs I sold it to my nephew, then he sold it on , I think it’s still on the DVLA register

What a fantastic story love videos like this gem of a find

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Paul

Brilliant and a fantastic story. My dad had a lotus Mk 2 around 1973 which was white with a red coach line. I recall it also used to burn spark plugs out after some time although it was checked and passed off as a quirk and eventually was passed on with the car. legendary vehical Nice1...

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comments Craig

@craigbuckley3373

Жыл бұрын

@Down at the barns A pleasure my friend and thank you again for an excellent, informative and thoroughly entertaining program. Excellent

In the late 1960's West Sussex Constabulary ran quite a fleet of Mk1 and Mk2 Lotus Cortinas.

@datbs

26 күн бұрын

Interesting

Very interesting hystory & great restoration. Congratulations from Milan.

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment

Incredible that the chap had the car for three years before he realised that it was a genuine Lotus! 😂🤣

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Yes pretty amazing Phil

Beauty❤

@datbs

6 ай бұрын

Yes it is Paul , great rarity

A few decades ago I owned a 1600E lotus four door. Series 1 in Blue Mink (but re sprayed red) black vinyl roof and black interior MOD299F. There was a company in the Torbay area that converted new 1600Es with the correct twin cam parts ‘donated’ from Twin cam Escorts. It had Lotus badges on the rear wings & 1600E boot badge. I sold it to a couple of classic car dealers from Ireland, would love to know if it is still about, it didn’t have any structural rust back then.

@datbs

3 ай бұрын

Interesting story David thank you for sharing

Nearly bought the other car from a classic car dealer in Rushden about 25 years ago was put off by the fact that it was a four door the seller said it was a police car and the Internet wasn't really an option

@datbs

9 ай бұрын

Very interesting

there were some other oddball lotus cortina's , my Dad bought a 1963 MK1 cortina wagon off lotus with all lotus running get , alloy front guards and bonnet , from Lotus in 1967 , apparently Lotus built it as a development/test car , which was later used as a company car for one of their engineers.

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Hello Andrew sounds very interesting, wonder if the car still exists today

@andrewaylett2952

Жыл бұрын

@@datbs we brought to New Zealand in late 1967 , Dad sold it in 1969 , the lotus running gear was apparently used in a MK1 escort race car , and the cortina was probably scrapped , I still have the original UK registration plates somewhere

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Oh that’s a shame would liked to have tracked that one down

@andrewaylett2952

Жыл бұрын

@@datbs apparently they used 3 estate cars for development mules as they were pretty inconspicuous thet also used 105E anglia's to test the lotus ford twincam . one of the 105E's Still exists in a very rough and rusty condition in Wales .

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Interesting

Great car, my absolute favourite modern classic, my dad had a mk2 in 69, very fond memories, don't remember the top mounted air box though, the carburettors just had stubby intakes, remarkably the car is still very much alive although i can't trace the present owner, if you ever see KMJ521G about I'd love to know.

Amazing story. Sad that he had to break a genuine lotus though tbh

My oldest brother had the mark one lotus cortina that he bought when he was stationed out in Germany with the RAF he only paid £80 for it as the guy who owned it was being posted out the Middle East it needed painted really badly so he got the guys in the workshops to paint it the original white but the only white paint they had was the white paint that they painted the nuclear bomber the HANDLEY PAGE VICTOR SIMILAR TO THE VULCAN BOMBER SADLY HE WAS DRIVING INTO THE CAMP WHERE HE WORKED AND A GERMAN FARMER CAME RIGHT OUT OF A FIELD WITH A HUGE TRACTOR AND WROTE HIS CORTINA OFF I WOULD IMAGINE THAT WAS THE ONLY MARK ONE LOTUS CORTINA PAINTED WITH THAT PAINT 1970

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Thomas great story , such a shame what happened to it , thanks for sharing 😊

I owned a MK2 Lotus Cortina back in the late 80’s, MAM 500F and was a member of the register. Got nicked in London one evening never to be seen again !

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that

@peter8084

Жыл бұрын

@@datbs So was l !

I'm wondering if you can share the registration number (or part of it for security reasons)of the donor lotus!!! Reason being I am the very proud owner of a lotus mk2 series 2 1969..... I bought this as a complete restoration project, I have completely restored this 'donor' back to its original condition The lotus was sold with the original log book chassis number was found under a braised panel, this was confirmed by the lotus club as being a genuine lotus woohoo...... I finally found a genuine shell.... Wouldn't this be an amazing coincidence if this turned out to be the donor shell? I look forward to your reply!!

@datbs

Жыл бұрын

Hello George, yes it would be can you email me please at downatthebarns@gmail.com and we’ll have a little investigation!

4 door Lotus?

@datbs

7 ай бұрын

Yes indeed Scottssoul64

some kind person nicked mine in 1976 never to be seen again

@datbs

7 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that

Sorry have to say. Marks 2 Ford tuned Twin Cams were rubbish compared to Lotus tuned mark 1s. To me this is a hybrid.

no ecu , no map sensors or egr valves .just a great simple engine

@ramishrambarran3998

Жыл бұрын

Yes. And no engine check light ! Trinidad & Tobago. West Indies.