Thanks Charlie, for the history lesson. Us young folks would never have
known the truth without your stop :-)
Don
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>From: Smokerbros@aol.com
>To: autox@autox.team.net, ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: A funny little Lotus tale!
>Date: Thu, Jan 25, 2001, 9:31 PM
>
>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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