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Re: '69 Lotus Elan Convertible

Subject: Re: '69 Lotus Elan Convertible
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 22:37:01 -0500
Cc: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>, spridgets@autox.team.net
References: <20031012020746.87858.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com> FILETIME=[15077E70:01C39072]
Didn't the Jensen Healey have a Lotus Twin Cam in it? I passed one up years ago 
for
$100, it eventually went into a scrap yard.

Brad

Ron Soave wrote:

> --- Bill L <pythias@pacifier.com> wrote:
> >        to paraphrase chapman... .. the perfect race
> > car should cross
> >        the finish line in first place, and then
> > disentigrate. anything
>
> They like to say that for chassis design, he'd weld a
> bunch of aluminum tubes together, then remove tubes
> one at a time until the car would collapse.  Then he'd
> put one back.
>
> Elans are gorgeous (to my eye), very, very fast, and
> on my short list of cars I must own before I go to the
> scrapyard in the sky.





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