there was an article recently in grassroots mag or similar about the 7
replicas. turn key new they go for $27-35K. so $25K for a good used one
perhaps isnt far fetched.
my dad remembers the original ones and laments he never bought one back
when. they look kind of uncomfortable for a street car, but maybe not.
-james "drove 110 miles today in cobra" creasy
----- Original Message -----
From: <Smokerbros@aol.com>
To: <autox@autox.team.net>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 9:31 PM
Subject: A funny little Lotus tale!
> I was cruising down El Camino Real in San Carlos, CA, and saw a BRG Lotus
> Seven or clone, complete with gold Minilite style wheels and beige soft
top,
> for sale on a used car lot. I seemed to remember it from a previous trip
> some months ago, and had to know more of the story. I called, and was
told
> the following story. Feel free to do your Scotty B. (it stands for
> "Bwaaaaaaaa!!!! Hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!") White impression at any time.
>
> "Yeah, the Lotus? It's actually a Donnelly, built in Canada from the
> original plans. See, when Mr. Lotus died in 1963, he had the Elan and
Europa
> already on the drawing board, and didn't care about the Seven anymore. He
> was the designer/driver of the cars, and had these two builders, Caterham
and
> Westfield both working for him.
>
> Mr. Caterham and Mr. Westfield went to court in 1963 to see which one
would
> get the rights to all the tooling. There's about 50 different people
> building replicas all over the world. This one's really nice. It's got
all
> Toyota running gear, about $6500 in carbs and head work on a 2TC Hemi
engine.
> It makes over 200 HP and weighs 1100 lbs. It's pretty much unbeatable on
a
> roadrace track or autocross course. I only want $25,000 for it."
>
> I'm thinking he doesn't want to sell it THAT badly!
>
> CHD
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