{"id":495888,"date":"2016-09-26T16:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T23:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=36332"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:22:33","slug":"stillborn-can-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/stillborn-can-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Stillborn Can-Am"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clive Chapman, son of famed Lotus founder Colin Chapman and the guiding light at Classic Team Lotus, revealed an interesting little bit of Lotus trivia recently. Apparently, tucked away in some dusty corner of their Hethel shops was a fireproof case that contained 28 rolls of old microfilm. When they went through to digitize the microfilm, they discovered drawings for a number of Lotus projects, many of which never saw the light of day. One of these projects was a set of sketches, made in September of 1979 by then designer Geoff Ferris, for a \u201cType 66\u201d Lotus Can-Am car. So intrigued by the discovery was Chapman that he enlisted some help from Lotus Cars to have the drawings rendered into a 3-D image of what the previously unknown Can-Am contender would have looked like, yielding an image that is both reminiscent of the McLaren M8F, with its slab-sides and integrated rear wing, and yet very Lotus with a unique pseudo-single-seat driver cockpit, offset by a hole in the deck for the \u201cpassenger seat.\u201d An interesting look into an alternate Can-Am universe that might have been.<\/p>\n

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