Scottish Elises

I have formed the impression over the years that, where feasible, direct relationship with the Lotus factory yields almost amazing results. I have some personal experience of this when tracking down a couple of rare parts. They have their own service dept, who clearly know their stuff (!) and I don'...

tut wrote:He either took no notice, or was already bloody quick.

tut

My money is on both!

craigs135s wrote: think they should bring that to sunny scotland.......

yep but you might get your eye poked out, it's colder here

actually thinking about it, it's probably not colder at all in fact, but it was FUN visualising it anyway

[ooo, very out of character Mr Ford...]

just got a price of £102 fitted per tyer and thats the LTS ones. Sounds not bad. Craig Craig, If Jim Dickson can supply the Yoko LTS version (double-check - we think that LTS badge is meant to restrict supply to Lotus dealers only), then that should be a good plan. Toyo T1-S are probably still avai...

Looks like you have your answer! FWIW, that is what I would have done...but that is because home life matters more to me now than ever before. 4-5 years ago things were different and I DID work lots of overtime for no pay, albeit it wasn't quite the norm amongst some colleagues, so it helped me get ...

Been offered a new job Background - work as a CA for one of the "Big 4" Accountancy firms - do ridiculous hours at times - basic is 37.5hrs - been known to do 70+ :shock: - no overtime payments or time off in leiu. :evil: Offer from Mid tier firm - probably number 5 or 6 in the terms of size. - the...

scott_e wrote:i feel that with lotus cars you get more performance for your money.

See the Evo mag comments in their Car of the Year writeup...great minds think alike

I'm all sorted mate!

Forgot to post the conclusion to this. Jim Dickson readily supplied a single Toyo Proxes T1-S (monster 225/40/ZR18 sizee) for £106 fitted. Next day delivery from the factory, who apparently have loads of T1-S still to clear. And yet another family-friendly motoring service agent, according to Lisa a...

I think the dates you quoted are accurate in context, ie the heady days of when we worked together (probably about 97/98 through to around 2000). I reckon our outing to Aberfeldy was some time after Karen and Iain's wedding, when I got a shottie of your MR2 (nice). Lisa got her Scoob in Oct 99, whic...

[beware...this got longer and longer as I reviewed it, sorree!] Around the time I left Uni, I was keen on the S2 Elan. They'd just launched the SE2 or whatever (essentially a runout model) but it was £25k or summat and way beyond my lowly means as a graduate programmer on £12k pa!! As it turns out, ...

Not so sure that finding the receipt is such a bad thing. It establishes the original market value of the car, if needs be a rough depreciation calculation can be applied, arriving at a fair value as at time of loss. That is what your insurance "commits" to pay out, as I understand it. At least it w...

I like this bit: "the theory that is favoured is a driving error due to excessive speed on a wet surface" So even an Enzo is not invincible against mother nature. Gotta be careful whether you have 3 cylinders, 4, 12 or whatever. There is also mention of "zig-zagging"...impressing the Russian FHM mod...

Ah Simon, you assume I didn't spot he was after an S2...I did, but just neglected to make explicit that I'd noticed!

You trainspotter you...

There is something magical about that 135 head, isn't there

Actually, on closer inspection, that S1 is NOT a Sport 135. It may have a 135 head etc - so be it, although how will you tell - but it has the wrong seats, no decals, and a black roof. S1 Sport 135s had Corbeau trimmed red and black cloth seats, blue hoods, S135 decals behind the doors, amongst a fe...