Steward of the Seven, Graham Nearn, passes away at 76

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Steward of the Seven, Graham Nearn, passes away at 76 – UK Auto News

Posted on 28 October 2009 Tags: a-friend-via, a-retail-outlet, bury-the-car, caterham, caterham-cars, caterhams, entry, graham-nearn, helped-develop, kept-the-car, lightweight, manufacturing, seen-the-car, seven, tokyo

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Graham Nearn helped develop and sell the Lotus 7, creating Caterham Cars in 1959 as a retail outlet for the lightweight roadster. After having seen the car through its years of broadcasting fame on the BBC show The Prisoner (that’s Nearn on the right with Prisoner star Patrick MacGoohan), he then saved the 7 from the death dealer’s axe when Lotus wanted to bury the car in 1973.

Nearn took over the manufacturing rights and kept the car true to its origins — the Caterhams we reported on from Tokyo last week are still Nearn’s children. Nearn passed away last weekend. AB sends its condolences to the entire Caterham family worldwide.

[Source: Caterham]

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