Caterham Sevens The Official Story of a Unique British Sportscar from Conception to CSR,9781899870615

Caterham Sevens The Official Story of a Unique British Sportscar from Conception to CSR

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781899870615
ISBN10: 189987061X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-08-28
Publisher(s): Motor Racing Publications
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Summary

Caterhams are a new take on the classic Lotus Sevens and are found on racetracks and twisty roads around the world. Caterham Sevens is the story of a former Lotus dealer, Graham Nearn, who saw the potential of a hand-built sportscar which its creator, Lotus founder Colin Chapman, was about to discard. Nearn bought manufacturing rights from Colin Chapman, and by developing ever more powerful versions for more than 30 years, turned Caterham into one of the world's most prolific and affordable sports-racing cars. Widely recognized as the standard work on the history of Caterham and its cars from the original Lotus Seven of 1957 and its Caterham derivative of 1973 to the latest Cosworth-powered Caterham CSR of 2005. This edition is updated with 64 pages of additional material. 2nd ed.

Table of Contents

Preface 6(3)
Graham Nearn
Foreword 9(2)
Dr Jonathan Palmer
Introduction 11(1)
Acknowledgements 11(2)
The Lotus Seven story The car that helped to pay the rent
13(22)
Caterham Cars and Lotus (1959-73) ``Custodians of the legend''
35(10)
The Caterham years A cottage industry on the hill
45(22)
Dartford to date ``Hey, boys, I've just bought a factory. . .''
67(76)
Racing the Seven From sprints and relays to 24-hour marathons
143(42)
Buying and restoring a Seven Choice, value and performance
185(8)
Sevens around the world A sportscar with international appeal
193(14)
Sevens under scrutiny A shot of adrenalin for road-testers
207(30)
The 21 story and Project Q26 Variations on a theme
237(12)
Appendix A Biographies 249(2)
Appendix B Production history 251(6)
Appendix C Specifications 257(6)
Appendix D Performance figures 263(3)
Appendix E Things you never knew about the Seven 266(2)
Appendix F Useful names and addresses 268(1)
Index 269

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