Who's is this pride and joy parked on a double yellow line

[nebogipfel]

...those horrible flashers...

Why horrible? I find 'em useful for, er, flashing, to give other drivers precedence etc.

As is your right old chap

Flash away say I

[elansprint71]

I thought that when the Elan went from two vac actuators to a single one they also became fail-safe.

When was that then? My Sprint was produced in the last two months of production and had two actuators.
Now at sometime, the +2 went to one actuator.

Don't ask me
http://www.lotuselan.net/publish/lsb_failsafe_headlamps.shtml

Edit: seems like I might have got the idea that all "late" Elans changed to fail-safe when I read my John Bolster book back in 1980, bearing in mind the above comments; probably wrong.
I'd always assumed that my Sprint (May 72) had somehow "reverted" at the time of the fire/front-end graft-on job.

[elancoupe]

does anyone leave those horrible flashers connected these days?

Mine are still connected -- but rarely used.