{"id":460929,"date":"2006-10-01T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=69037"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:50:58","slug":"lotus-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/lotus-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Throughout my racing career I drove 11 different Lotus racing cars, but without doubt the most significant was the Lotus 39, the car that I used between 1967 and 1970.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jim Clark had used it in the 1966 Tasman Series winning the Warwick Farm round. I had been using a Lotus 32 with a 1.5-liter Ford engine, as part of the Total Team. Come the end of the series, it seemed like a logical step to move up to the 39, especially as it came with a 2.5-liter Climax. 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