Oh Joy!!

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:57 pm

Have just been rumaging through what is pretty much my life's history up till leaving school. Stuff that has been stored in my father's attic for the last 10 years, most of which I had no idea I had...

Among the junk I discovered a copy of Autocar, dated 10th July 1996. On the cover is the Williams Renault F1, the Merc SLK, and the Lotus Elise!!

This must have been one of the earliest reviews! I re-read the article, and memories of imagining what this car might be like came flooding back. As a 16 year old boy, just owning any car would be a dream come true (at the time I had a Yugo 45

). The thought of owning an Elise would never have crossed my mind... Well now I have one, and reading back over the old article in a magazine I had as a boy makes me realise how lucky I am. I dearly love that every time I get in my Elise it amazes me, and feel just a little bit silly that I can derive such pleasure from it, every time, without fail.

(Please excuse the rather revolting schoolboy reminiscing

. It's just a little odd to feel like a kid again....)

skellyjohn · Post by **skellyjohn** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:43 am

Fantastic post Tom. I'm going to copy it and show it to the mrs as she doesn't quite get it.

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:54 am

Some times its very easy to take things like that for granted - would love to see the review mate

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:09 am

Nice one Tom.

...were the pages stuck together?

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:50 am

Andy G wrote:Some times its very easy to take things like that for granted - would love to see the review mate

Brigita · Post by **Brigita** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:16 am

Tom wrote: I dearly love that every time I get in my Elise it amazes me, and feel just a little bit silly that I can derive such pleasure from it, every time, without fail.

I get that feeling everytime i open my garage in the morning!!!! It's great isn't it.... lol

B

Ps - i'd love to see the review too!

Post by ed » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:41 am

alicrozier wrote:Nice one Tom.

...were the pages stuck together?

Nice one bruv!

r055 · Post by **r055** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:42 am

Ive got a good elise review from classic car mag in 2006.

It reviewed a Std S1 111, an S1 111s, 340r and S1 exige alongside their owners IIRC (probably SELOC members)
Good little write up also. i'll try and scan and post on SE1 if no one has done so already.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:33 pm

Glad you all liked it

Have scanned the article and hopefully text is readable....

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:36 pm

Sweet!

That worked pretty well

Enjoy folks

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:37 pm

alicrozier wrote:Nice one Tom.

...were the pages stuck together?

As you can see, the pages are free from damage.....

r055 · Post by **r055** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:39 pm

Tom wrote:
alicrozier wrote:Nice one Tom.

...were the pages stuck together?
As you can see, the pages are free from damage.....

...its amazing what you can do with photoshop

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:41 pm

r055 wrote:
Tom wrote:
alicrozier wrote:Nice one Tom.

...were the pages stuck together?
As you can see, the pages are free from damage.....
...its amazing what you can do with photoshop

Post by **Shug** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:00 pm

Theoretically, that's copyrighted material above, but in the spirit of the thread I don't think anyone is gonna have a problem, so please leave it up (unless we get threats

)

On a similar note, I once mentioned to my parents soon after I got the car, how chuffed I was that I now owned a car that appears on "Supercar" calendars - long childhood of dreaming of owning the cars on my bedroom wall.

Now, each and every Christmas, they go out and find me a calendar with an Elise on it - bless 'em

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:09 pm

top effort mate - brightened my lunch time

Scottish Elises

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