In a message dated 8/4/00 1:18:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
flarsen@earthlink.net writes:
<< My Lotus Seven was shipped assembled from Lotus,
and the identification plate says Lotus Components.
Other, contemporary cars like the Lotus Elites have
plates saying Lotus Cars. >>
Lotus Components was the racing division and assembled and sold the racing
cars. Lotus Cars sold the road cars. Chances are that your Seven was
assembled by the racing division. Just as possible is that one division ran
out of plates and "borrowed" some from the other division.
I assume everyone on this list is aware of the Lotus habit of duplicate
serial numbers for cars sold "across the pond." This mostly applied to
racing cars, but there is one story of Graham Arnold being dispatched to the
states with a briefcase full of replacement plates after the Feds got wind of
this Lotus "habit".
David Whiteside
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