LOTUS CORTINA
Kingsley Beck is certainly an enthusiastic fan of Lotus Cortinas. “I’ve owned three,” says Kingsley, “including a 1965 that was my daily for 10 years from 1972 — until a Rover SD1 ploughed into the back of it and wrote it off. After that I got a Lotus Sunbeam, but that’s another story…”
“Then along came a very rotten, early 1963 Lotus Cortina which I’d almost finished restoring — the bodyshell was prepped for paint and all the parts were ready to bolt on — when a man from the Midlands heard about it and bought the lot for £5000. At the time I had a
