<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I owned four different Elans (from new) and the best four letter f-word to describe</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1124707862MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Finicky, Fragile . . . I can think of another f-word to describe our British roadsters.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1124707862MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> bmcu-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:bmcu-bounces@autox.team.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Eugene Jaroch<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:21 PM<BR><B>To:</B> BMCU<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bmcu] Great Review of Lotus Elan in its 50th year</SPAN></div></DIV></DIV>
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<div class=yiv1124707862MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Members,<BR> <BR>Here's a nice video from member Bruce and it so happens that these Lotus cars from the 60's are getting serious attention once more and even Jay Leno has one in his garage near completion.<BR><BR>Paul,</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1124707862MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">May I suggest that you send this link to everyone in the BMCU? It's Harry Metcalf's (Evo Magazine) homemade review of the Lotus Elan Sprint. He made this video on a beautiful, sunny day in the English countryside. I thought the owners of LBCs might enjoy it.</SPAN></div></DIV>
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<div class=yiv1124707862MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">It had a lot of meaning to me because my brother bought one back in 1964 and I think owns a Sprint currently. While we knew guys who owned MG-TD, MG-B, MG-A, A-H 3000, and even an Elva Courier cars and enjoyed jaunts and admired them all, the little Elan seemed very special albeit fragile and finicky. Come to think of it, weren't all of the British roadsters finicky, fragile, yet special? It was part of the experience of ownership and still is.</SPAN></div></DIV>
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