Oh Joy!!
Posted: 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....)
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....)
