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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