Jeff Cocking wrote:
> I show for the Mark 1 there were 2867 (1963 - 228,1964 - 536, 1965 - 1112,
> 1966 - 991) and there were 4093 Mark IIs (1967 - 1379, 1968 - 1484, 1969 -
> 1036, 1970 - 194). Both the Mark I and IIs came with the Twin Cam, which
> totals out to 6,960 cars. These figures are from Newtons book on the Elan,
> Europa, and Cortina. Is he right????
>
> If there were only Lotus Twin cams in the Mark I, then that means there were
> 4500 more Elans made, so the total is now up to 25,000.
>
> jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rodbean@ix.netcom.com [mailto:rodbean@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 1999 4:51 PM
> To: Jeff Cocking; chapman-era@autox.team.net
> Subject: Total number of TC engines
>
> > From: "Jeff Cocking"
> > Subject: RE: Chestnut (Was: Re: Magazine Information)
> > Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:41:45 -0500
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> > Total Elan production. Let us look at the Heart of the matter.
> > There were 32,000 twin cam motors made:
> >
> > 4500 Lotus +2
> > 2400 Europa's with a Twink
> > 7000 Cortinas
> > 1300 Sevens
> > 500 Various racing - 23s etc.
> > 500 For sloppy lotus math pre 1970
> >
> > Leaves 15,800 twin cams left laying around. So there must have been
> 15,800
> > Lotus Elans. Add the 4500 Plus 2s back end - that gives you 20,300 Elans
> > total.
> >
> > jeff
> > a consultant's perspective
> >
> >
> >
> 7000 Cortinas? There were about 2500 Lotus Cortinas. The others would
> have pushrod engines.
>
> Rod
Oops! Forgot about the Mk. II. 2867 sounds right for the Mk. I. I must have
owned about 0.5% of those at one time or another.
Rod
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