I had just started autocrossing/slalom events at that time, wanted a Lotus SOOOO badly! Lotus Elite, Elan, 7; (There are several shops doing lotus 7 replicas in the US, and one California site that rented them out for cruising the coast roads!) While the Lotus 7 was more or less the original street legal shifter cart as far as weight, size, etc, with zero creature comforts, the Elan was sort of a stripped down Mazda RX7 of the period (In a positive way - great handling and performance but in the British tradition - minimal creature comforts.) Tweaky electricals and hydraulics as I recall.

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John

2003 Firemist Red/grey leather SL 500
2015 Palladium Silver/black mbtex GLK 350
1987 Smoke Silver/burgundy mbtex 300E Sportline (SOLD)

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