If you were a student in March 1967 and had just passed your driving test, what would you have chosen as your first daily driver? Lynette Jeevan was just such a student, and she went out and bought a race-proven 1954 Lotus Six, which was sold to her by a bank manager from Clacton for £95. What is even more unusual is that she continued to use this impractical machine regularly until marriage and children came along in the early 1970s. The former racer has been sitting in storage, unused, ever since.
Chassis 41 was supplied in kit form to Nutfield Service Station (proprietor FW Marriott) and fitted with a Morris Ten engine mated to an MG gearbox. It was road-registered VPK 3, a Surrey number, and Fred Marriott raced it six times in 1955 before fitting a 1097cc Coventry Climax FWA power unit – but, perhaps surprisingly, keeping the Ford live rear axle and cable-operated brakes. Over the following two years he entered some 20 races, before selling the Six at the end of 1958 to Ian Alexander.
It was sold again later in the same year to John Townsend, who raced it once before suffering a fatal accident during practice for the September Membersʼ Meeting at Goodwood.
The car then passed
