This months Evo

[jimbo]

Has a five way Lotus test. All the cars are reported to by around 700kg and trend setters in their day:

1. Elite (original)
2. Elan Sprint DHC.
3. S1 Elise.
4. 340R.
5. 2-Eleven (normally aspirated)

The Elan, Elise and 340R all get 5 stars. I think the 2-Eleven get 4.5 and the Elite 4... but that's just from memory.

[jimbo]

Don't all rush out to buy it at once now will you!

[GrUmPyBoDgEr]

Ha ha,

E-mail already sent to Santa. I expect to see it in the Red Cross parcel from GB for Christmas.
Will be better than watching all of the stunning TV from BBC & ITV.
I'll be doing enough repeats myself after Christmas dinner.
I've just got the Sprouts on but am I too late??


Cheers
John

PS Mk 14 Elite 4th?
Think I'll be contacting the Editor

[Elanintheforest]

Don't you fret, John. I expect that the editor is some spotty kid who thinks that Coventry Climax is some old slapper in the midlands, and a fibreglass monocoque is something you get after too much amyl nitrate.

Mark

[johnsimister]

The editor owns the Elan. The amyl nitrate I'm not sure about.

[MintSprint]

The editor owns the Elan.

And a Pagani Zonda and a very large house not far from me in the Cotswolds, last time I checked. He's far from being a spotty kid!

Nice to see you on the forum, Mr Simister - I was pleased to see from 'Octane' that you've joined the ranks of Elan ownership!

[elansprint]

Mark wer can see what you were up to during the 60's
Ian

[gherlt]

Hello,
any chance anyone could scan me the Lotus articles ?
I am in Spain and have no chance of buying the mag....

Thanks

Guillermo

[GrUmPyBoDgEr]

Don't you fret, John. I expect that the editor is some spotty kid who thinks that Coventry Climax is some old slapper in the midlands, and a fibreglass monocoque is something you get after too much amyl nitrate.

Mark

I like that. You should be on QI
You scored -360

Cheers
John

[twincamman]

HEY mintsprint ---YOU AROUND TREADINGTON????ed

[tdafforn]

As far as brussel sprouts, just don't cross cut the bottom or Gordon Ramsey will be 'round to tan your ***
tim

[GrUmPyBoDgEr]

As far as brussel sprouts, just don't cross cut the bottom or Gordon Ramsey will be 'round to tan your ***
tim

Ooops, already done.
Never mind, send the man across; there's a little place around the corner where he can stay for a few years

[MintSprint]

HEY mintsprint ---YOU AROUND TREADINGTON????ed

No Treadington's up at the top of the Cotswolds, near Stratford on Avon. I'm down in the South West of the Cotswolds - near a village called Stinchcombe, though I work in Tewkesbury, which is a bit closer to Treadington.

Harry Metcalfe (Elan-owning Editor of Evo Magazine) is over near a town called Burford, further East, over toward Oxford.

[twincamman]

oh --I have an old school pal in Treadington ----he was over here for a while in the 50s and we almost got him civilised when he went back to England to do Morris dancing -----something to do with royalties from Lonnie Donegan and My Old Mans a Dustman --saw him 2 years ago in Edinburgh ------I thought we could play a practical joke on him ----ed

[MintSprint]

Bear in mind that this is England we're talking about - we're not a very big island, you know!

One end of the Cotswolds to the other takes about an hour by Elan...