Lightning [2]

Lightning was a British sports car project created by Chris Craft, the designer of the Light Car Rocket, together with Tony Hart, brother of the Formula 1 engine specialist Brian Hart. The pair developed a V8 engine formed by joining two Yamaha one-litre four-cylinder units on a common crankshaft, producing an output of around 305 brake horsepower from just two litres of displacement. To house this engine, Craft commissioned Peter…