Talk:Lotus 23

Is this a Lotus 23. The file name hints it's a Lotus 10. // Liftarn

Yes, it appears so. The 4 stud front Wobbly Webs suggest this is a 23 or a 23B, but the difference between these two models (additional structural steel pipes on the sides of the 23B cockpit) cannot be seen in the photo. Driver-side-only roll bar made with very thin (probably 1" diameter) pipes were retrofitted to many 23s, but the roll bar shown in the picture is clearly different, and the lack of a windshield wiper shows the extent of the restoration. Yiba (talk) 01:32, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

I am seriously doubting if 23/23B/23C had the same suspension as Lotus 20 as so stated in the article. I am not sure about the original 23, but I used to own/race a 23B, and they (including all other 23B's I have seen) definitely have the top 'I' arm on the rear suspension (which the 20 didn't), and had "Rubber Donuts" on the halfshafts (meaning the suspension does not depend on the halfshaft to keep the geometry as the 20 suspension did). Also, I got acquainted with another owner who installed a set of front suspension arms that he was told to be for 20/22 on his 23B. I could not measure the lower arm, but the top 'V' shaped arm clearly had different dimensions/ratio from the front to the rear tube sections. As a result, there was a large amount of bump steer that could not be dialed out, whereas mine had close to none. I'd appreciate if someone could shed some light on this. Could Setright be mistaken in his book? Yiba (talk) 07:58, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

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Broken link to image that was never properly parsed

Under the heading "Banned from Le Mans", the fourth paragraph ends with this sentence: "This is a rare 'picture' of Les Leston Lotus 23 with tall windscreen and 4 stud rear hub." Setting aside the question as to why "picture" was enclosed in quotation marks, the link does not resolve to a picture of anything, just to a Spanish-language webpage that has seemingly not been maintained since 2013, and has multiple broken images. Unless an image can be found to link to, and it properly parsed, I think the entire sentence should be struck.
Bricology (talk) 19:40, 22 November 2024 (UTC)