Classic Motorsports magazine covers a lot of topics about classic and vintage cars across many different marques… British, German, Italian, and sometimes American. Recently though, there has been deeper delving into the Lotus spectrum. Last summer, there was a side-by-side
The Colorado Good
There is a road rally in Colorado where you can have a grand time spending several Grand driving your very expensive classic car over some very nice roads, stopping at expensive hotels and restaurants, rubbing elbows with the upper crusty
My Other Car is a “Lotus” Syndrome
This could also be titled: My other car is a “Fill in the Blank” Syndrome. You have seen the saying on license plate frames and on the bumpers of many different vehicles. Dennis Stahl has one on his truck. It’s
Victory by Lotus
I was first introduced to Lotus cars shortly after Jimmy Clark won the Indianapolis “500” in 1965. Being heavily into the slot car hobby at the time, I had a number of cars, many of which I still have today…
Elise Tech Tips 2
For this installment of Elise Tech Tips I would like to cover a couple of technical issues that are fairly easy to address, yet dramatically increase the pleasure of ownership of the Elise. I also want to bring to light a relatively new failure that is being reported
Musical Elan Chassis
You know the game called “Musical Chairs” that you played when you were a kid? Some adults would set up a bunch of chairs in a circle facing outwards, one less chair then there were kids. The music would start and you would walk around the chairs until the music stopped and you had to
Elise Tech Tips
When Lotus introduced the Federal Elise S2 to the United States back in 2004 as a ’05 model year it set the sports car world on fire. Finally we were offered a new Lotus that was built around the traditional Lotus values and philosophy of the vintage Europa
Touring In Your Lotus
By Richard Anderson I had once owned a bug-eye Sprite for five years, an Alfa Spi-der for five years, and a desire to own a Lotus. This was mostly because it would be fiberglass, but also because it would be
Truing Up the Body Fit on a 1973 Lotus Europa – Part 2
Last month, Part 1 of this article detailed this project that I undertook to true up the body fit on my Lotus Europa in an attempt to get panel fits close to contemporary specifications. That’s typically a 4 or 5