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Re: A funny little Lotus tale!

To: kirk <kmeline@fastpointcom.com>
Subject: Re: A funny little Lotus tale!
From: Pat Kelly <lollipop@ricochet.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:58:48 -0800
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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