A huge collection of Formula 1 Lotuses appear at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed.
They include some of the most innovative, radical and successful cars in F1 history.
Game-changers like the monocoque 25, Cosworth DFV-sporting 49 (the very chassis which won its first F1 race at Zandvoort in Jim Clark's hands) and modern-looking 72 are cheek-by-jowl with some of Colin Chapman's more unusual creations.
The turbine-powered 56B, unraced 58 and banned 88B also feature.
Several post-Chapman era cars are also on show, including a 97T campaigned by Ayrton Senna in 1985 and a V12 Lamborghini-powered 102.
A handful of non-F1 cars are on show including a prototype IndyCar built in 1986 but never raced.
Here are pictures of the many Lotuses on display:
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- Lotus 12 (1958), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 12 (1958), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 18 (1960), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 18 (1960), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 18 (1960), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 18 (1960), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 18 (1960), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 21 (1961), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 25 (1962), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 25 (1962), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 25 (1962), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 25 (1962), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 29 IndyCar (1963), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 29 IndyCar (1963), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 49 (1967), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 49 (1967), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 49 (1967), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 49 (1967), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 49 (1967), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 49 (1967), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 49 (1967), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 49 (1967), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 49C (1970), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 56B (1971), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 56B (1971), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 56B (1971), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 56B (1971), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 56B (1971), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 56B (1971), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 56B (1971), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 58 (1968), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 58 (1968), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 72E (1973), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 72E (1973), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 72E (1973), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 72E (1973), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 76 (1974), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 77 (1976), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 77 (1976), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 77 (1976), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 77 (1976), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 79 (1978), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 79 (1978), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 80 (1979), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 80 (1979), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 80 (1979), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 80 (1979), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 80 (1979), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 80 (1979), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 88B (1981), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 88B (1981), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotuses, Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 92 (1982), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 92 (1982), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 94T (1983), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 94T (1983), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 94T (1983), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 94T (1983), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 96T IndyCar (1986), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 96T IndyCar (1986), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 96T IndyCar (1986), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 97T (1985), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 97T (1985), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 97T (1985), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 97T (1985), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 98T (1986), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 98T (1986), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 102 (1990), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 102 (1990), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 102 (1990), Goodwood, 2012
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- Lotus 102 (1990), Goodwood, 2012
Goodwood Festival of Speed
- 1950s and 1960s F1 cars at the Goodwood Festival
- Porsche 804: Porsche's only F1 race-winner
- F1 Lotuses celebrated at the Goodwood Festival
- Three cars, 18 tyres: F1 six-wheelers at Goodwood
- Caption Competition 15: Sir Stirling Moss and friends
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