{"id":460338,"date":"2004-12-01T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=95028"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:24:39","slug":"pity-the-poor-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/pity-the-poor-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"Pity the Poor Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jenks used to write pieces titled, \u201cPity the Poor Historian\u201d, where he would list, say, the conflicting reasons for a particular car\u2019s retirement from a race as reported in different publications. I used to think them highly amusing until I became an historian myself. Try this as an easy historical question, \u201cWho designed the body of the Lotus 11?\u201d<\/p>\n

You thought it was Frank Costin and so did I. Frank thought Frank Costin designed it and he showed the original drawings to Dennis E. Ortenburger when Ortenburger was researching his book, Flying on Four Wheels\u2014Frank Costin and His Car Designs. After nearly 50 years, however, a guy named Grahame Walter\u2014a man not known to motor racing, but an accredited engineer\u2014has written a paper that claims he played a role in the design.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n