1962 Lotus Elite car Product:Greetings card View of Temple Bar at

View of Temple Bar at night

View showing an audience watching a man balancing on one leg on a moving horse

Cortina d'Ampezzo

Ultimately meetings were permitted and peaceably held

5th January 1964

1962 Lotus Elite car Product:Greetings card View of Temple Bar at1962 Lotus Elite car. The Elite was Colin Chapman's first closed Lotus and was the first car to use fibreglass as a major structural element. At that time, it was the only British sportscar with the Coventry Climax FWE overhead camshaft engine, disc brakes on all four wheels and fully independent suspension. Elites finished first and second in their class at Le Mans in 1960 and had many other sporting victories.