So, my wife Sue and I had been talking about buying an Elise off and on for several years. We recently got a little inheritance money that was earning a whopping .15% interest in the bank so we decided to
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I got an email from the new owner who was happy with the car, which made me feel good. He cleaned the car up from the transport to Canada and took it to the Toronto British car festival. There were over
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Now comes the next challenge, selling the car. What price for all this work? No Europa is worth Ferrari bucks. But then again, this is a very nice Europa. Not many Europas have had a body off restoration. If you
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I picked up the car from Ken the interior guy (great work as usual) and began working away at the couple of small but pesky bugs still left in the car. I had sent out the Tach and Speedo to MoMa
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On the lower part of the sills on each side of the Europa Twin cam there is a metal strip and a fiberglass valence. The stock color of the valence is a very bright metal flake silver. Kind of a 70’s
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The hood and the trunk lid or boot and bonnet posed no real interesting challenge. The steel engine venting grates took a lot of scrubbing with a wire brush to clean up. A rattle can spritz of chrome paint made them
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Next up on my list of things to do was to install the front windshield and rear window. I had previously tried to put in the rear window myself with no success and had heard that the front windshield installation was
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Having cured my electrical woes, I was anxious to tum the engine over. So I did. And it cranked real nice! So I went and pulled the plugs to crank it some more to see if I got spark and
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I found that I had three electrical problems. The interior light would blow the fuse when I switched it on. The turn signals did not work, and the third very weird one was where some of the gauge lights would go
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I started thinking about applying some DC volts to the Europa to see if there where any wires that had smoke in them. You know how that goes; you hook up one end of the battery cable solidly to the battery