Oliver Winterbottom, who designed cars for Lotus, Jaguar and TVR from the 1970s to the 1990s, died in 2020 at the age of 76 and now fans of the cars he created will be able to get their hands on his collection of books, models and blueprints.
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Mr Winterbottom led the Lotus Toyota X100 project, the last car overseen by Colin Chapman in 1982, which saw the two companies develop a two-seater roadster, but the project stalled when Mr Chapman died and was never made commercially available.
Plans and concepts of the X100 as well as other vehicles Mr Winterbottom, from Wymondham, designed are included in the lots.
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Mr Winterbottom’s daughter, Anne Cox, 51, said she and her sister Jane Tolbert decided to sell the items in order to allow car enthusiasts to enjoy them.
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She said: “This is the collection he’s been building up his whole life and he had a lot of stuff.
“We’ve got what we want to remember him by so we want to let others have the rest and enjoy it.
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“There’s quite a lot there which will be of great interest to car collectors a lot of the big original drawings he had up on the drawing board are in there and I think the stuff relating to the car that never was will be in demand.”
Other items being auctioned off include his large collection of books, with many signed by their authors, signed pictures of F1 drivers and 85 videos and DVDs of car-related footage.
The auction will take place at 10am at Downham Market Auction Rooms where the items will be auctioned off by Barry Hawkins.
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