Consul Cortina Developed by Lotus

A visit to Lotus Cars Ltd. and Road Test Report By Tommy Wisdom

I have been looking for a copy of this very rare 8-page brochure for a long time, and was recently contacted by Dave Hunter, who offered to send me some scanned images of it. I believe he is listing it for sale shortly- if interested, contact him by emailing to dave.unta at hotmail.co.uk , by removing the "at" and replacing it with @...

This is one of the coolest brochures Ford produced. 8 pages (including a clever front-cover, and back-cover of specifications) it's printed in black and white, with a sherwood green over-print on 5 pages. The text, Tommy Wisdom's questions and Colin Chapman's answers, is great! The factory stills are obviously very good, but the "candid" photos have a wonderful not-exactly-posed-but-posed quality to them. All of the parts of this brochure combine to keep me smiling throughout the read, and well after. I love the photo of disheveled Tommy casually looking through a brochure (on page 5), and again on page 6 driving the Lotus Cortina on the track- note the hat- and what appears to be a cigarette hanging from his mouth...

Click on the pages above to view a larger more readable image, in a separate window. Published by Ford Motor Company, printed by Alcuin Press Ltd., probably in 1963, it carries a reference number A3053/9/63 Dom. Eng.