This last Saturday (9/25) I attended the Evergreen Lotus Car Club's
monthly meeting, which I thought you all might find interesting. It
was held at Phantom Restorations, a restoration shop in Seattle that
does a lot of Lotus work, and included an interesting discussion on the
ins and outs of Lotus restoration as well as lots of works-in-progress
to examine in detail.
LBCs In the shop that day were:
3 early Elans (one barely begun, with the body off the frame)
one S2 Europa,
one early Elite (almost finished, and absolutely lovely),
an XK140 FHC,
and a 1935 Alvis.
Non-LBCs were a '33 Auburn, a '57 Chrysler convertible (a swimming pool
of a car), a '48 Veritas (!) and a '72 Volvo 145. Yes, the 145 is the
boring old station wagon, and for what it cost to restore the owners
could have bought a new one, but they prefered to have the old one made
new again.
It being a sunny day, people brought their toys along, and as much time
was spent examining those as the ones inside. These included a Super
7, a couple of lovely early Elans, a new Elan SE, an Eclat, a Westfield
Eleven and a Ferrari F40 (brought because he'd just washed his Esprit
and was waiting for the wax to dry, or something). The Ferrari was
traveling on a temporary trip permit, as registration costs a tidy
$9,000 a year.
Dave
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