Seventies Lotus Garage/cartrader

[Tuscan]

I am searching for the name of a small garage/cartrader that sold

Lotus cars on Broad Street,Birmingham in the Seventies.

 

I know it was a very small garage and sold mainly used

sports cars (Lotus/TVR) so not many people probably will

recall it. Who remembers this garage or can help me to find it

(old newspaper,motor mag.)?

 

Thanks.

 

Eric

[Scott_Mac]

Not Paul Matty was it?

[Tuscan]

Was he on Broad Street in the Seventies?

[Scott_Mac]

I only saw 8 months of the seventies, so can't tell you

[Mark H]

I know of a location near Broad street (but not on Broad Street, just a few streets away) that used to have a Lotus dealer on it, although I doubt this was there in the seventies. Like Scott I also didnt see much of the seventies!

 

Why do you need their name for?

[Tuscan]

You probably mean Ryland Cars, but they started with Lotus in the Eighties and were

a few miles from Broad Street.

 

Like to know the name of this garage as I am doing some car history research.

[ipanter]

Have you tried Lotus direct, they must have a list of their old dealers somewhere.

 

I'll ask my Dad though he grew up in Brum.

[Mark H]

Only other place I can think of is Birmingham council, they must have records of that.

[Mark H]

Or Paul Matty are likely to know having been in the business for years.

[Simon V]

PM started as an apprentice mechanic in a Lotus dealers in Birmingham, the name will come to me...?

[Tuscan]

I tried Lotus direct, but they didn´t have any information.

 

This Broad Street garage/trader was not an big "official Lotus dealer" but

probably a "one man" garage. It sold used sports cars like Lotus/TVR and

I can imagine with only a few cars in stock at that time.

 

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[ipanter]

Do you know the address, you never know it may still be there, or at least maybe another garage who may remember the old owner.

[Mark H]

No chance he will still be there, Broad Street is full of clubs/bars now and thats about it.

[ipanter]

Are there any GARAGE clubs down there?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sorry

[Simon V]

Colmores, was the dealers in Broadstreet.

PM started out at Ashmores in west Bromwich, somewhere.