{"id":491702,"date":"2011-02-01T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=36484"},"modified":"2024-11-03T13:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T13:39:56","slug":"lotus-powered-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/lotus-powered-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Powered by Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had seen this well-used Lotus 18 sitting in a grumpy little foreign car repair shop hard along Ventura Blvd. in Studio City, California. The guy who owned the shop and the Lotus was named \u201cBuck\u201d something or another as I recall. I kept driving by and looking at that machine every few weeks, and one day I finally stopped to ask after the price (I didn\u2019t have it, of course), and the history of the lime-gold-colored racecar with the gold LeGrand alloy wheels.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_574045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-574045\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/LS201102-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-574045\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/LS201102-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/LS201102-p1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/LS201102-p1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/LS201102-p1-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/LS201102-p1-293x410.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-574045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Stokes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It had been raced on the West Coast by a very fast hairdresser named Ronnie Herrera (who actually contested two or three early Can-Am races). He was said to have been aboard when it was nearly cut in half at a regional race, I believe at Santa Barbara. Anyhow, just after I sold my Dane-Norton in July of 1967, the aunt who had raised me passed away and left me a small inheritance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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