Classic Lotus Garden Party May 20th

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Place marker for the event

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Getting ready. Leg one complete. Arrived at first staging post.

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What an absolutely fabulous day with the Classic Team Lotus crew and the Chapman Family at East Carleton. A day to remember.

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One very important piece of the CTL Garden Party was the launch of a new biography of Colin Chapman.



Pieced together over the last 5/6 years, with direct inputs from Hazel and the Family, and containing many unseen family photo album images, it's a massive 5kg lump Colin would not have been happy with!



Celebrating the book launch in this the 75th year of Lotus at the event, 75 one off editions were made available to the guests.

Each edition was date marked with one of the Lotus years from 1948 to today, and the front sheet signed by some Lotus Legends:

Clive Chapman
William Taylor
Russell Carr
Mike Costin
Bob Dance
Chris Dinnage
Martin Donnelly
Jonny Herbert
Mike Kimberly
Matt Windle

[richardw]

Wow! That’s collectible. Did you get one?

[Hawaiis0]

Wow! That’s collectible. Did you get one?

1958

[Alan_M]

Wow! That’s collectible. Did you get one?

I got 2004 - the year my son was born

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Nice montage of the unveiled busts of Colin and Hazel

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[rbgosling]

Fabulous pictures, thanks! I particularly like that one of the Lotus 88 with the Essex-liveried Esprit.

[Marcus]

I'm sure that you really will remember that day for the rest of your life - it looked amazing - thanks for sharing it with us - Marcus

[Hawaiis0]

For those not keen on FBook here is a link to the CTL party video.

Nice shot at 1:12
https://vimeo.com/847951264?share=copy