Hi from soon-to-be Elise Owner

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:41 pm

Hello !

Ah i remember the anticipation.......You'll love it when you get it, if you are anything like me you'll also very quickly realise you are a sh*t driver and you need training and bigger balls

craigieb · Post by **craigieb** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:48 pm

thanks guys. looking forward to meeting you all and getting some training. my background is more quick bikes than cars so I've been caught out by the whole vehicle performance vs rider/driver ability thing one more than one occassion

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:13 am

Congrats!

Pop along to KH for some pax laps at the next track day.

That should make Spetember go even slower

Clarkie · Post by **Clarkie** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:55 pm

Hi Craig, Welcome from a fellow Newbie. Best car I've owned even after 3 months! You'll love it!!!! First trackday on Saturday at KH just confirmed I should have bought one before now. I'm through Polmont quite a lot normally after a blast on the back roads to Linlithgow heading to work in the morning. See you around.

Cheers

Clarkie

craigieb · Post by **craigieb** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:36 am

Clarkie wrote:Hi Craig, Welcome from a fellow Newbie. Best car I've owned even after 3 months! You'll love it!!!! First trackday on Saturday at KH just confirmed I should have bought one before now. I'm through Polmont quite a lot normally after a blast on the back roads to Linlithgow heading to work in the morning. See you around.

Cheers

Clarkie

cheers Clarkie...look forward to seeing you in and around Polmont - I'll keep my eyes peeled!

Zippy · Post by **Zippy** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:30 am

Guys, this is my old next (but one) door neighbour! I must have had an influence - do I get commission?

Craig, responded to your PM. Just found this thread now after I sent the reply. Good to see that everyone's living up to what I said in the message.

As I mentioned in the message there's a 'Spanners and Sponges' session at Lawrence Hoy's this weekend. I'll see if I can find the details and post them up. Basically Lawrence gives his house/garage over to all of us ungrateful sods for the whole of Saturday and Sunday to work on our cars and have a blether. Great fun. If you could even spare 30 minutes to pop in to say hello and introduce yourself to the others it would be worth it. I had plans for this weekend which could be changing now so I might be there myself.

Great to hear from you again.

Cheers,
Iain.

Spanners and Sponges thread...
http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... highlight=

woody · Post by **woody** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:56 pm

Hi craig

Think i was in the show room at MMC waiting on the S demo car when you were ordering the car, i overhearing the colour and that it was an S.

I was deeply impressed with the S - you'll love it.

craigieb · Post by **craigieb** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:35 pm

woody wrote:Hi craig

Think i was in the show room at MMC waiting on the S demo car when you were ordering the car, i overhearing the colour and that it was an S.

I was deeply impressed with the S - you'll love it.

cheers woody. if you were in the showroom I'm surprised you weren't blinded by my wife's grin when she came back in after the test drive

woody · Post by **woody** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:54 pm

You were both giving it big grins i think

damn, you've quoted me and i can't change my mistook now

Post by **simon** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:39 pm

BTW, looks like you'll be the first here to have a new Elise S (not to be confused with the old Elise S

) so expect people to have a nosy at it when you get it

craigieb · Post by **craigieb** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:46 pm

simon wrote:BTW, looks like you'll be the first here to have a new Elise S (not to be confused with the old Elise S ) so expect people to have a nosy at it when you get it

car scrutiny most welcome

...erm...driving scrutiny best left a wee while

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:45 am

yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing it

Post by **Shug** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:03 am

shooomer wrote:What's an Elise S?
Paul

140bhp entry level Toyota engined Elise - for about £24k

minkypotglory · Post by **minkypotglory** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:17 am

Hi, Craig

Bet you didn't sleep last night.Never mind it's all worth it is it today you pick your Lotus up .

Mags

craigieb · Post by **craigieb** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:22 am

minkypotglory wrote:Hi, Craig

Bet you didn't sleep last night.Never mind it's all worth it is it today you pick your Lotus up .

Mags

cheers mags

i haven't slept all week - been like a 4 year old waiting for a disneyland holiday