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HERE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS; Build a Westfield XI, and it'll be Le Mans 1956 all over again.(News)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
"Is that an 11?'' yelled the guy somewhere back in the flimsy rearview mirror.
"Sort of!'' we yelled back.
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 more substantial any car is today.
It works this way: You send Westfield $19,990, and they send you enough parts to make most of this car (www.westfieldeleven. com). You also have to find a donor Midget/Sprite to get brakes, front uprights, rear axle, steering rack, engine, gearbox and instruments (did we miss anything?). Westfield gives you a nice chassis, a fiberglass body-the original of which was pulled off a real Lotus 11-and all the other stuff you should need to make the car you see here. It's a kit, remember, so give it about a month to build, or six months, or a year, or a divorce followed by another year, followed by sale in the ...
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