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A FORD Cortina ridden and owned by British racing and music legends has sold at auction for a whopping sum.
The 1963 Ford Lotus Cortina was driven by famous racers Jim Clark, Jack Sears and Sir John Whitmore and owned by musician Chris Rea.
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Ford teamed up with lotus to build this race winning motorcycle and crazy bidders for it at the auction with Collecting Cars.
Bidding stopped at £114,000 (132,500 Euros) with the money going to a private seller in Geneva, Switzerland.
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This same car first raced in the Oulton Park Gold Cup in 1963, where it took the class win driven by Jack Sears.
A week later, it won its class at Snetterton in the closing round of the British Saloon Car Championship in the hands of the legendary Jim Clark.
Then, in 1964, it was brought to the US, where it was raced at Sebring by American driver Dan Gurney.
After that it won at Pensacola with racer Sir John Whitmore, so the little Cortina is not lacking in motorsport heritage.
A few years later in the 1980s, it was discovered abandoned in Florida but given a full restoration.
Chris Rea then owned the car and it was driven at the Goodwood Festival of Speed by TV star Tiff Nedell.
The Lotus Cortina has a 1.6-litre twin-cam Lotus petrol engine, fed by twin Weber carburettors, driving the rear wheels via a four-speed manual.
The advert reads that the car is: ‘correctly finished in Ermine White, with Sherwood Green accents on the side, finished with gold ‘Team Lotus’ lettering and pinstriping.
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