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
Europa Euphoria, Part 31
Europa Euphoria, Part 30
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
A Case For the Spare #2
On Memorial Day weekend, I finally had the 13 year old, hard as a rock Yokohama AVS tires replaced on my Europa Special. The dearth of choices available for 13 inch rims these days pretty much meant settling on the Sumitomo
Europa Euphoria, Part 29
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
Europa Euphoria, Part 28
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
Matt’s Models – September 2010
Let’s say you were Team Lotus, and it was 1968. You were on your way to go racing at Silverstone…. what better (or cooler) way to arrive on track than to have a Mini Moke at your disposal! This release from Spark
Europa Euphoria, Part 27
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
Europa Euphoria, Part 26
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
Europa Euphoria, Part 25
Near the end of January ’08, we hit a real cold spell in the Chicagoland area just about the time I wanted to start doing some carpet and headliner gluing and rear windshield rubber installation. My garage is heated but only
Matt’s Models – November 2009
This month, we look at the precursor to the Esprit, the Europa, and a few of its racing variations. Spark continues to churn out model after model of the Lotus marque. The past few months saw the release of the Lotus