95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet
95T Carbon Wallet

Sixty One — Limited Edition

95T Carbon Wallet

£219.00GBP · Taxes included · Free shipping
65 of 130 remaining 50% claimed

130 pieces from one endplate, and the only Sixty One release in JPS colours. When it's gone, it's gone.

Leather ColourTobacco Dark Brown Smooth
Carbon Colour
Limited edition
One of 130, with certificate
Free
Tracked worldwide delivery
Gift returns
Return until Jan 1st 2027

Independently made. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in partnership with F1, its teams, drivers or sponsors.

01 — Provenance

The black and gold is original paint.

The car

Lotus 95T, 1984 season. The carbon comes from a front wing endplate. The vertical panel at the end of the front wing off the car Nigel Mansell raced that year.

The livery

The John Player Special marks were hand-painted inside the Lotus factory over forty years ago. Same paint that ran in '84, not a reproduction, not a reprint. It's the first and only Sixty One release to carry JPS colours.

The verification

This piece was bought from a respected memorabilia dealer who purchased the wing from a Lotus Engineer. Every piece is checked against the carbon weave, dimensions, screw and bolt-hole placements, component marks, usage patina and the hand-painted JPS marks. Each wallet ships with a signed certificate documenting its origin.

LOT95T-FW-MAN CAR-PART-DRIVER

02 — What £219 buys

Three materials, one workshop, and forty-year-old paint.

Race-used carbon

1984 Lotus 95T endplate

130 pieces from one front wing endplate. When it's used up, there's nothing left to cut.

Leather

Badalassi Carlo Minerva, Tuscany

Vegetable-tanned, not chrome-tanned. There's no surface coating to wear off — it darkens and softens with use.

Construction

Handmade in England

Cut by hand and assembled by a leather workshop in England. Every edge aligned.

Nameplate

Matt stainless steel

Modelled on a real F1 chassis plate, printed and made here in England.

Closed

110 × 67 mm

Carbon finish

Raw · Gold tip · Patterned

Capacity

8 cards + cash

Edition

130 pieces

04 — Owners

4.83

Based on 101 reviews

I received the wallet and found the quality along with its functional compact size very impressive. It is definitely unique.
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Glad to own this piece of art and history. Really well made.
AM Verified
This wallet is an absolutely well made craft. This was a gift for my husband and he loved it.
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05 — Questions

The things people email us before buying.

How do I know the carbon is really from Mansell's 1984 Lotus 95T?

Each piece is verified through its carbon weave, dimensions, screw and bolt-hole placements, component marks, usage patina and the hand-painted JPS marks. Every wallet comes with a signed certificate of authenticity documenting its origin and its connection to the 1984 season.

How big is it and how many cards does it hold?

110 × 67 mm. There are six card slots and a cash compartment. We quote eight cards because the two largest slots comfortably take two each.

Is it an everyday wallet or a display piece?

Everyday. The carbon is securely set into the leather, and the leather is built to be used — plenty of owners carry it as their main wallet.

What makes the leather special?

It's Badalassi Carlo Minerva, vegetable-tanned in Tuscany. Cheaper wallets — and some expensive ones — use chrome-tanned leather with a surface finish that eventually wears off. Vegetable-tanned leather has no coating to lose; it ages instead. Badalassi Carlo are members of the Consorzio Vera Pelle Italiana Conciata al Vegetale, which guarantees Tuscan vegetable-tanned production.

How do I care for the leather?

Very little. Keep it away from excessive moisture, and use a leather conditioner every 6–12 months to keep it supple.

How limited is "limited edition"?

130 wallets, and that's it. Once they're gone, nothing more can be made from this endplate — and it's the only Sixty One release in JPS colours.

06 — The car

1984: the year that nearly broke him.

4

Opening retirements

1st

F1 pole, Dallas

8 yrs

To the world title

Four retirements to open the season. Then Monaco, in the rain, leading a Grand Prix with his first win sitting right there — until he lost it into the barrier.

Then Dallas. His first pole position. And on the final lap, gearbox gone, the image that followed him for years: Mansell pushing the car toward the line in the Texas heat until he collapsed.

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He was out of Lotus by the winter. Eight years later he was World Champion.

Here's the thing about 1984. It's easy to read it as the year everything went wrong. But it's also the year you could see what was coming — the speed, and the refusal to give up on a car that had nothing left. This endplate was part of that season.