garyeanderson wrote:OK now, My big mouth or fat fingers (both) have gotten me into trouble a couple of times it the last several weeks. There is an old Who Song the goes something like "who are you, woohoo woohoo, tell me, who are you, I really want to know, Who the Fu@% are you"
So any one care to talk a bit about your selves a bit before some more posts get deleted. I don't get to see or meet everyone on this forum and talk of number plates with letters in stainless and black don't cut it as Lotus talk in my narrow Lotus twisted brain. Anyone besides Russ and George building up a Twin Cam? Anyone do an engine swap other that all of those Zetec Plus2 things? I post a lot of crap here on Elans, Elite?s, Seven?s, Nine?s, even some Plus2 stuff (do you see a pattern here, older is better) and "you gave me no reply" for the most part. We don't seem to talk the same language or have the same interests or think the same things are funny. So Rob an I have Buried the Hachette (in my skull) and we seem to understand one another much better, Jason and I had a couple of messages back and forth and its seems a bit better but we still need to work on it a bit more. It seems Like John has taken the bait and I need to have a few emails to straighten that out. More is coming for sure. So help me here, I don't have a clue on who the OOP's are you? "No reply" is not an option from my perspective, to me that will be the same as FOB and that?s not a shipping term. I guess if I can't figure it out I'll be moven on to some other venture. It?s probably going to happen sooner or later anyhow "but I'd like to get to know you if I could"
So I'm Gary E. Anderson, the E is Elwood, after my Fathers brother killed in a hunting accident, not married, no kids, nearly died before I was 21 in a Jeep accident, lost my left leg below the knee. I had a couple dollars left after paying off the hospital bills and bought an S2 Elan the was burned slightly (small carb fire) with the remaining insurance money. I got it running and drove it for a week but the screen was cracked and needed a new one for the semi-annual car inspection in Massachusetts. Bought a new screen for an S2 and when it arrived guess what, an S2 screen is a type 36 or type 45 not a type 26 which is an S1 screen (Burned and learned). So I ended up walking for a while. Got a new screen and the Elan was running real good and trumpet nut came loose and imbedded itself into number 4 piston. Engine apart for a couple of days and along comes a huge ocean storm, worst in 80 years and drowns the Elan with the head off, oh ya, that new screen is laying on the floor in a million pieces. I went to work for Digital Equipment in 1980 and stayed till 1998 when it was bought by Compaq and they offered to let myself out the door. My Ex boss called me to do weekend baby sitting for another computer room and that ended in 2002 along with a shop that I was renting for 8 years but for another reason. The old rail bed went by the shop and they wanted to ?put a parking lot? where it stood for the renewed rail service to Boston. Beau showed up about the same time, he doesn't talk much but that?s a good thing. Been out of a real job since and not likely to get back to one again. So I been playing with cars since, mostly lotus but have others to. I think I have enough money to pay the taxes and eat peanut butter until I can collect a retirement check from the Feds, that?s if there is any. I?ve been selling a few Lotus parts and scrap metal to do anything other than eat lately but all of that is in the toilet at the moment So it lights out in Scituate when the sun goes down for the foreseeable future.
Gary Elwood Anderson
This is a topic of introductions or "who the Fire trUCK are you", not to crap on some one for there ability to write and communicate with proper punctuation and grammar or the lack of. Most of us write the way we talk and it may sound odd but that?s the way it works for most folks. I would guess that any comments in this section other than welcome are but useless to those that offer their introduction. Because you?re old and well, you and insert you own adjectives to fill in the blank. Anyway I am happy that enough folks offered there time to help me understand the Who and maybe some of the WHY that folks come around to offer strangers there spare time to get some 37 to 47 year old Lotus back on the road. There are not to many Elan?s that have been in continuous service since day one. The one or 10 that are, may be in need of our collective knowledge sometime soon. Take a look at 26/0086
elan-photos-f18/restoration-0086-t21274.html in the Elan Gallery, than take a look at Alan?s Chopped top Duratec powered Elan in the same.
elan-photos-f18/fhc-soon-dhc-update-the-duratec-fits-hopefully-t19981.htmlFrom one extreme to the next, you won?t or at least shouldn?t fine any negative comments without a smiley face. These are folks that are sharing what they are doing with us all and without them this forum would be all the more boring than the normal ?My Elan is broke? post. Give a little time and you may find that folks actually enjoy the time you put in to make this a great exchange of knowledge.
p.s. I can't spell, can't write, can hardly read and have to print my name so I can read it.