Jay, as much as you'd like to disagree with Ray,
your post supports what he's claiming. You concede
in your post that Lotus may have made some cars to
custom-order.
Kent Rafferty
Ray wrote:
> > I would bet that you could have bought
> > te car any way you wanted as a factory piece.
Jay admonished:
> And you would be wrong. From 1968 on, any car sold in the US had
> to comply with Federal emission and safety standards. Lotus may
> have made some cars to customer order, but the variations you
> could get on the standard configuration would have been very
> limited. There is no evidence of a single "factory custom" Europa
> existing in this country.
>
> My suggestion: confine your statements to subjects with which you
> have some familiarity. The correct information is readily
> available to anyone who is interested in finding it, as opposed
> to simply wanting to make unfounded accusations.
>
> Read the rules. The wording has been the same at least since
> 1987: "Cars NOT SPECIFICALLY LISTED (emphasis mine) .... must
> have been produced in quantities of more than ...." Cars that ARE
> listed in Appendix A have, _by_definition_, met the required
> criteria for Stock. SCCA is not "breaking its own rules," as
> alleged by one poster in this thread. You do have to actually
> read the rules to recognize that.
> Jay
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