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Re: Early Seven

To: flarsen@earthlink.net, gene.carter@grassvalleygroup.com,
Subject: Re: Early Seven
From: DWhitesdJr@aol.com
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 11:52:14 EDT
In a message dated 8/4/00 1:18:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
flarsen@earthlink.net writes:

<< My Lotus Seven was shipped assembled from Lotus,
 and the identification plate says Lotus Components.
 
 Other, contemporary cars like the Lotus Elites have
 plates saying Lotus Cars. >>

Lotus Components was the racing division and assembled and sold the racing 
cars.  Lotus Cars sold the road cars. Chances are that your Seven was 
assembled by the racing division. Just as possible is that one division ran 
out of plates and "borrowed" some from the other division.

I assume everyone on this list is aware of the Lotus habit of duplicate 
serial numbers for cars sold "across the pond."  This mostly applied to 
racing cars, but there is one story of Graham Arnold being dispatched to the 
states with a briefcase full of replacement plates after the Feds got wind of 
this Lotus "habit".

David Whiteside

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