HERE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS; Build a Westfield XI, and it'll be Le Mans 1956 all over again.(News)
AutoWeek, February, 2008
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Byline: MARK VAUGHN
"Is that an 11?'' yelled the guy somewhere back in the flimsy rearview mirror.
"Sort of!'' we yelled back.
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It's a 1168-pound replica of Colin Chapman's ultimate lightness wagon. While the original Lotus 11 won its class at Le Mans in '56 and set a closed-course speed record at Monza the same year at 146 mph, this car might not fare so well. This is a Westfield kit car that sits on a lot of MG Midget/ Healey Sprite mechanicals. It will remind you of what the world's best sports cars were like more than half a century ago and how much safer and ...
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