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Re: '69 Lotus Elan Convertible

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: '69 Lotus Elan Convertible
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:07:46 -0700 (PDT)
--- Bill L <pythias@pacifier.com> wrote:
>        to paraphrase chapman... .. the perfect race
> car should cross
>        the finish line in first place, and then
> disentigrate. anything

They like to say that for chassis design, he'd weld a
bunch of aluminum tubes together, then remove tubes
one at a time until the car would collapse.  Then he'd
put one back.

Elans are gorgeous (to my eye), very, very fast, and
on my short list of cars I must own before I go to the
scrapyard in the sky.


=====
Ron Soave

"I strolled all alone through a fallout zone, came out with my soul untouched."

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