| During the 1960's through to the late seventies | | | | particularly fast, but gave the |
| sports cars were designed by engineers with one | | | | driver enormous enjoyment along with wind in |
| thing in mind, to provide high erformance with | | | | the hair motoring. There |
| good handling & brakes, good looks, and an | | | | were also lots of big Austin Healeys...the Bull dog |
| exciting driving experience with lots of grin | | | | of English sports cars |
| factor...read, pure unadulterated driving enjoyment | | | | and ever so popular with the bigger budget |
| behind the wheel.Sure, there are some great cars | | | | drivers. Triumph TR2, 3 & 4s |
| around today that still provide driver | | | | were also plentiful on the roads, they enjoyed a |
| enjoyment, but many cars are being redesigned, | | | | great following by many |
| and over engineered in | | | | sports car enthusiasts.If you had a lust for very |
| such a way that the old enjoyment factor is | | | | fast sports cars you would naturally look at |
| being taken out of the | | | | buying a Jaguar E-type, or a Ferrari, Porsche, |
| automobile, even some high performance | | | | Morgan Plus 8, etc.But there was a small sports |
| marques have computerised | | | | car designed by a happy go lucky Englishmen with |
| management systems installed to stop you from | | | | a degree in aeronautical engineering who started |
| getting a little out of shape while cornering, which | | | | designing and building unique, agile little sports cars |
| means you don't have to apply opposite | | | | in his spare time. |
| lock any more... heaven forbid...where's the fun in | | | | It was not long before these little cars were |
| that.What ever happened to the car control skills | | | | finding success on the racetracks, and they |
| learnt by sports drivers in days gone by? And | | | | continued to challenge and embarrass the more |
| what happened to the comunication between you | | | | established marques, racing fraternity people of |
| and your car felt by the sensations you often felt | | | | the day were all-aghast and wanted to know the |
| through the seat ofyour pants.... now that's what | | | | name of the builder of these funny little racecars |
| real driving was once all about.In the sixties there | | | | called Lotus.As the years went by, the Lotus |
| were many different makes of sports cars on | | | | name become synonymous with numerous World |
| the road, the most common and affordable was | | | | Championship F1 victories on many of the world's |
| the MG, and the square | | | | great race circuits. Such was Colin Chapman's |
| rigger type TC - TD - & TF and the later MGA | | | | Design Genius and uncanny knack of selecting |
| & MGB were considered | | | | great drivers such as the late Jim Clark who |
| fun sports cars of the time, they were not | | | | drove the Lotus cars to a number of F1 victories. |