Once in a while in the disassembly stage you have to do a bit of clean up. Since I had just ripped (literally) the seats out, it was time to take the shop vac out to get rid of all the rotted
Europa Euphoria, Part 4
Europa Euphoria, Part 3
Time to Get Gooey. The window frame is held onto the door with two small self-tapping screws and lots of really gooey black tar type adhesive. Of course I didn’t really know this at first so I didn’t put on any rubber gloves.
Europa Euphoria, Part 2
Disassembly time. Lot’s of people ask me how many hours I put into a restoration. It seems like thousands, but I never really kept track on the other projects I’ve done. SO this time I’ve got a little clipboard and I’ll see how
Europa Euphoria, Part 1
Many of you recall that I wrote a series of articles from 1990-1997 when I took two very tired Lotus Cortina junkyard dogs and made one pretty nice one out of them. That car is gone, sold to a collector in
Throttle Cable Trials
It is a given that machines are fallible devices, and that the older a machine gets, the more likely it is that something will indeed fail. In this particular case, it was the throttle cable of my 1973 Europa Special that decided to
25 Years with Europa
February 12th this year, marked the 25th anniversary of my having purchased my Lotus Europa Special. It is a milestone which is hard to accept, because it really doesn’t seem all that long ago. Not many people get the chance
Lotus Europa Alternator Upgrade
by Rich Cwik Did you ever wish to enter one of those contests where the loudest car stereo wins a big trophy? (This is Bob Herzog’s secret desire). (Actually, my secret desire is to be able to HEAR my stereo while