Lotus 19

The Lotus 19, also called the Monte Carlo, was a mid-engined sports-racing car that Colin Chapman designed for Lotus and that was built from 1960 until 1962. It had a rear-wheel-drive layout with a fibreglass body over a space frame and was first fitted with a Coventry Climax FPF engine of 1.5 to 2.75 litres and the Lotus five-speed Queerbox transaxle, while American cars mostly used a Colotti transaxle. Chapman named it after Stirling Moss's win at the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix, Lotus's first Formula One victory, in the same spirit as the Cooper Monaco. In late 1963 a single car was built to take a Ford 289 cubic inch V8 for the American sponsor John Klug and became known as the 19B; it was the fastest sports car in the world in 1964, but its Colotti transaxle often failed. Seventeen Lotus 19s were built, and many were wrecked or rebuilt.