Promoting Lotus Cars throughout Chicago
So, I was in the final stage of assembly and testing of the Detroit car. Also known as Elan restoration #12. I had taken multiple rides through the neighborhood forest preserve. Everything was working as it should. Most things worked
So things are moving along pretty well on my latest Elan restoration, which I refer to as the Detroit car or Elan restoration #12. Dash is all wired up. Rubber carpet installed. Interior side panels done. So I went and
So, maybe it’s a matter of getting older, but highway driving at 70+ mph with the engine buzzing at 4000+ and lots of wind noise is less appealing today than 30 years ago. I had a Hyundai Elantra recently and
There’s something to be said about a “Crate” motor. You see them being used on car and motorcycle shows shown on cable TV all the time. They eliminate a lot of the potential pitfalls in doing a car restoration or
So my cell phone went “Ding” one day, telling me that someone sent me a Facebook text. Usually that is my brother, sending me a picture of some fabulous meal he is having in Barcelona or maybe a picture of
I graduated from DeVry with an Associates Degree in Electronics in late December of 1973. After taking a quick one week drive out to California and back with my buddies, I started work at the Illinois Bell Telephone company on
In the Fall of 2018 I was facing a small problem – Too many Elan projects. At least too many for the amount of storage I had. I was just finishing up the second restoration of my own S1 Elan.
A week later back in Des Plaines the POD arrived and I thought I had given myself a couple days to unload the car. But upon further review the POD was supposed to be emptied, cleaned and ready for pick
Surely you must be joking! I’m not joking. And don’t call me Shirley. Ah, the line that launched the second career of the up till then, a very serious and handsome actor named Leslie Nielsen. What has that got to
It was barely a month since I had gotten my latest “Seattle car” Elan project parked in the basement of the Lakehouse when I got several emails & texts from folks in the Indianapolis area telling me that there was