LOTUS CORTINA Mk2

Often what makes a car truly special isn’t purely its rarity, increasingly today it’s the originality and the history — what auctioneers love to refer to as provenance —that transforms a classic from merely unusual into highly desirable. This 1969 Cortina boasts a big tick in all three of those boxes. It’s a Lotus Cortina, it remains virtually as the day it left the factory and it once belonged to Colin Chapman. The Cortina, chassis BA91JJ14893, was built in September 1969 then gifted to Lotus founder, Colin Chapman by Ford after they bought the rights to the twin-cam engine as part of Ford’s desire to improve the quality