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dolly birds

Oh dear. I think one of those dolly birds might be my mum.

Guest Breadvan72
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Has she still got the boots?

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These things are beautiful up 'till the B-pillars, then they get quite ungainly IMO - still, I wouldn't kick one out of the garage, despite the whole dash looking like a lash-up from a build thread on LocostBuilders...

 

Welcome back.

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Has she still got the boots?

I don't think they'd fit you Gerard.

Guest Breadvan72
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I have a 1978 Team Lotus pit lane jacket in black with gold stripes. If I wear it with mahoarsive aviators I can look like Mr Bordello car crash dude above.

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Excellent purchase and great to see you back!

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Well returned Bread, it's lovely. Takes me back to that strange period of the Silver Jubilee and the Sex Pistols.

 

Enough talk of paintwork patina and rebuilt carbs, how well does it go and what's the most satisfying aspect of ownership?

Guest Breadvan72
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It goes reet tidy, like.   Mucho handlissimo, and rorty torty.  The best bit about owning it may be the WTAF looks as people see it,so rare and shonky are these heaps.  Small boys like it because it is wedgy and pointy.

 

There is also for me a great pleasure in once again having a Lotus, even (especially) a shite one.  I was a huge fan of Team Lotus as a child, and lusted after a Europa from first seeing one in the early seventies.  When I had wedge in my wallet, I owned one of the best JPS Europas in the UK, but the taxman came a calling and I sold it to a collector in Hong Kong.  I also had a very spiffy looking but slightly not very good Elan Plus Two.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What a sexy shambles, well done. Can I come round you house and call you Dad?

Guest Breadvan72
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You can, but as I am from the 70s you might get bummed by my establishment friends.

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Looks like Lotus has a proven track record of wonky centre consoles?

Looking at those pics, I think I'm lucky that I was a Team SCA/Frank Gardner fan as a child, instead of a Team Lotus fan.

 

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Mum's had a Lotus Europa just before I was born. My dad says it had a sort of wood panel that cracked and had switches that really needed pressure on them to switch; or ones that switched when you barely touched them. The small courtesy light would come on at random, but it was useless anyway

Guest Breadvan72
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The panels on my Europa and Elan were in good nick and all the widgets worked. Whoever did the Eclat panel was pissed at the time.

Guest Breadvan72
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Other things wot are borked:

 

Red lights on doors, interior light switch onny with door open.

 

Headlining, nay bad, bit spotty. May be CREATURES living in it. Carpets new.

Guest Breadvan72
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Thank shite you're back, counselor - I lay the blame for my recent velocity-related collar tug entirely on the temporary absence of the AS legal aid department  ;)

 

BTW... red Beta koop, VLX320X: is/was that yours?  There's a pic of it in the new C&SC, p164.

 

 

What month?  Not on page 164 of December. 

Guest Breadvan72
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... the driver of the Excel looked like some libertine driving home after a night of fun in a bordello. He had a Bandito moustache, Aviators and a fur coat: quite a look!

 

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Guest Breadvan72
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The Lotusheap is a device for making my already totes abysmal parking SKILLZ YO even worse. Woody Allen says: "it's ok, we can walk to the kerb from here."

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We await photos of this at the side of the road, bonnet up, hazzards on, awaiting roadside assistance...LOLOL

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The Lotusheap is a device for making my already totes abysmal parking SKILLZ YO even worse. Woody Allen says: "it's ok, we can walk to the kerb from here."

Helpful hint- 5 mins before parking have your passenger call a taxi-saves on the walking

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Guest Breadvan72
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Curses be upon Ho Flung Dung Industries and their shitty replacement parts.  The condenser that was put in the car only months ago decided to cook itself straight away, so that when the car had been running for a while and got warm the ignition would go conko, and not work again until the car cooled down a bit.    Cue much hilarious driving on the hard shoulder very noisily at 20 mph.  Anyway, Roy the bloke has fitted Powerspark electronic ignition, and now I have to go for a long drive to see if that's better.

 

PS: Thanks to some Romanians, it scrubs up reet tidy.  Here it is getting scrubbage, and then at me mum's.

 

 

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That there is a very cool car - massive overhangs at both ends, exactly the right wheels and Marina door handles.  

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Love the fragility of lotuses's  I was watching some house fixup program the other night. It may have been Lotus former staff housing, when they leant on the wall the light in the next room came on. Cue rewiring. It made me think of  Lotus anyway !

Guest Breadvan72
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Chapman used to say of his racing cars that if they weren't falling to pieces when they crossed the finishing line (in first place) then the driver wasn't trying hard enough.  

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Only just caught up with this - what a machine!

 

Please bring this to Shitefest '15, although I wouldn't let any nutters drive it...

Guest Breadvan72
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Finally getting it a garage to live in next week.  Although rust is not a big issue with this heap, damp does it no good  - the electrics go all manky and the door seals are a bit shite.    I have a feeling that the headlamp popper upper electric motor may just have expired  (at least it has one, not some crapola vacuum system), but it might just be on strike, as it did that once before and then went back to work. 

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...the electrics go all manky and the door seals are a bit shite...

 

All you need for that is a can of contact spray, a can of silicon spray and LOTS of patience. It's pretty much standard procedure for me, whenever I purchase olde British chode.

Guest Breadvan72
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Wise words.  This chodewagon may, however, have been partially rewired by a madman at some point in its murky past.  

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