About puzzle #119: Ghia-Aigle Lotus 1100

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After our puzzle number 118 – you had not a single clue, so no winner either – we decided to keep things slightly simpler for this time. Too simple? It seems like it, as regular Hugo Modderman called it a ‘Not so tough to crack puzzle with the internet providing all the information’. Well, at least you were generous in supplying us with answers. And so for this time we had a wide choice to pick out a winner – just as we like it. Okay, everyone of you knew this was the Michelotti designed  Lotus 1100, bodied by Ghia-Aigle of Switzerland. (Bernard Corrège initially mistook it for a roadster version of the Fiat 8V Demon Rouge, but corrected himself). Some of you came up with chassis and engine numbers (we’re not impressed by these, but hey - who are we?).

We prefer things like James Helms’: “I remember seeing its photo in the June '57 Road & Track article when presented at the International Motor Show in Geneva.” Or Jeffrey Vogel’s: “I know Gary Schonwald and saw car when he owned it”. But they were beaten by both Ted Wilmarth as G. Williams, who came up with some lovely facts: “The bare chassis was displayed at the Coventry Climax showroom in London. In February 1957, this was delivered on a VW pickup (!) by John Crosthwaite (Lotus) to Carrozzeria Ghia-Aigle.” So who wins? It’s Wilmarth, who added: “After it was then fitted with a roof it participated in the Col de la Forcaz hillclimb in Martigny. Then the car made a second appearance at the Geneva Motor Show in 1958 and went on to participate in the Ollon-Villars hillclimb.” Prove above. Congratulations Ted!

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