~ warm / fuzziness
~I’ve hardly driven the car since the SIDC day on the 7th – Being somewhat mortified at my lack of pace / at times ragged driving I’ve subconsciously left the Elise languishing in the drive, preferring to use my family tin-top instead…
However on Wednesday night I had to pop through to my folks to collect some stuff, and decided to fire Elsie up…After the usual histrionics associated with starting an elderly S1 which has lain outside on a wet drive for a while, I got going, sans roof…
I reckon around this point I realised that there’s something quite magical about the Elise that perhaps I’d forgotten in my focus on track performance – The run out to my parents was to a gorgeous sunset, which was somehow enhanced when viewed over the curves of the front clamshell…
The run back was even better – No traffic, the warm amber glow of the stack and burble of the stainless steel exhaust…You always tend to get strange looks when you drive around in the pitch black without the roof, but part of me feels that this is really what Elise ownership is all about…You feel completely at one with the car, and when I launched it off an empty roundabout, down a straight stretch of ‘B’ road at around 100 tuts, I reckon there’s no other feeling in the world quite like it…
Needless to say, there’s absolutely no way the Elise will ever again be spending so much time dormant in my drive – I feel privileged to have the opportunity to drive a car like this, let alone own one…
~ /warm, fuzziness
~Ross.
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(well let him win from the first set