A good D Mod car, or OSP...
--Pat K
kirk wrote:
>
> Its been out there a long time. Its under a car port but still out in the
>cold
> every day. Can't be worth that much seeing as how he leaves it outside every
> day. I doubt it has been driven much either. Too bad.
>
> Kirk
>
> Smokerbros@aol.com wrote:
>
> > I was cruising down El Camino Real in San Carlos, CA, and saw a BRG Lotus
> > Seven or clone, complete with gold Minilite style wheels and beige soft top,
> > for sale on a used car lot. I seemed to remember it from a previous trip
> > some months ago, and had to know more of the story. I called, and was told
> > the following story. Feel free to do your Scotty B. (it stands for
> > "Bwaaaaaaaa!!!! Hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!") White impression at any time.
> >
> > "Yeah, the Lotus? It's actually a Donnelly, built in Canada from the
> > original plans. See, when Mr. Lotus died in 1963, he had the Elan and
>Europa
> > already on the drawing board, and didn't care about the Seven anymore. He
> > was the designer/driver of the cars, and had these two builders, Caterham
>and
> > Westfield both working for him.
> >
> > Mr. Caterham and Mr. Westfield went to court in 1963 to see which one would
> > get the rights to all the tooling. There's about 50 different people
> > building replicas all over the world. This one's really nice. It's got all
> > Toyota running gear, about $6500 in carbs and head work on a 2TC Hemi
>engine.
> > It makes over 200 HP and weighs 1100 lbs. It's pretty much unbeatable on a
> > roadrace track or autocross course. I only want $25,000 for it."
> >
> > I'm thinking he doesn't want to sell it THAT badly!
> >
> > CHD
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