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Post by Rich H » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:06 am

Nice!

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Post by Shug » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:17 am

LC S135 wrote::welcome
I really like those old Europas , heres a pic of a modded one I took at the Team Lotus 50th at Hethel in '04.
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That might be the puppy with the Chevy V8 in it... Used to be blue, if it is...
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Post by LotusLee » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:06 pm

[quote="Shug
That might be the puppy with the Chevy V8 in it... Used to be blue, if it is...[/quote]

I've no idea the owner wasn't around to find out anymore about the car, it had cream leather S1 Elise seats that suited it. Heres another pic.
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Post by Shug » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:11 pm

That's gotta be the V8 (one-off homebrew special) The bodywork was exactly like that, even down to the wheel style. Not my taste, but no arguing with the grunt (I seem to remember 1100kg and 450/500bhp being bandied about) 8)
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Post by Scottd » Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:43 am

:welcome
sico24 wrote: Very happy with it (now has clonking rear suspension when hot - ball joints?) and try and drive it even in winter.
My 1999 T reg does exactly the same when driven hard for a good few hours. I think the advice I got pointed to the rear toe links. OE Lotus are the cheapest IIRC (??) but the Eliseparts upgrade is recommended. (I've yet to do anything about it but they can fail which aint nice.
Also have a 1968 Europa S2 which gets out VERY rarely (new chassis and R16 1565cc engine but body rather iffy).
Sweet 8)

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Post by alicrozier » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:53 am

Shug wrote: Not my taste....
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I like this one. :)
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Post by Zippy » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:54 am

Shug wrote:That's gotta be the V8 (one-off homebrew special) The bodywork was exactly like that, even down to the wheel style. Not my taste, but no arguing with the grunt (I seem to remember 1100kg and 450/500bhp being bandied about) 8)
Shug don't know if that's a V8. It's on the Duke 'Lotus - Best of British' DVD and the owner doesn't mention it being a V8 IIRC - in fact now that I'm looking for the DVD I can't find it. Mac, Mandy, Monica & I all saw this car at Mount Stuart a few years back. The owner, a woman by the name of Nina Boys takes the car to events and her and her hubby take folks on short pax rides in exchange for donations to charity.

The DVD has another guy who has a Ford V8 in his. He says he's an instructor at one of the circuits down south and that the Europa handles beautifully.

Cheers,
Z.

Now where did I put that DVD??????????
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Post by Shug » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:57 am

Zippy wrote:
Shug wrote:That's gotta be the V8 (one-off homebrew special) The bodywork was exactly like that, even down to the wheel style. Not my taste, but no arguing with the grunt (I seem to remember 1100kg and 450/500bhp being bandied about) 8)
Shug don't know if that's a V8. It's on the Duke 'Lotus - Best of British' DVD and the owner doesn't mention it being a V8 IIRC - in fact now that I'm looking for the DVD I can't find it. Mac, Mandy, Monica & I all saw this car at Mount Stuart a few years back. The owner, a woman by the name of Nina Boys takes the car to events and her and her hubby take folks on short pax rides in exchange for donations to charity.

The DVD has another guy who has a Ford V8 in his. He says he's an instructor at one of the circuits down south and that the Europa handles beautifully.

Cheers,
Z.

Now where did I put that DVD??????????
I've got the same DVD and I'm sure that it's the V8 body (which I thought he'd done as a one-off) It's definately blue in the DVD.

Having said that, I stand to be proven wrong!
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Post by Sanjøy » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:09 am

Killer number plate, no wonder Georgie Best had one.
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Post by mac » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:16 am

Zippy wrote: Mac, Mandy, Monica & I all saw this car at Mount Stuart a few years back. The owner, a woman by the name of Nina Boys takes the car to events and her and her hubby take folks on short pax rides in exchange for donations to charity.

Cheers,
Z.

Now where did I put that DVD??????????

I remember that - it was a "who the hell is he talking to now moment" :D


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