Promoting Lotus Cars throughout Chicago
Long-time Lotus Corps members will undoubtedly remember Meadowdale Raceways, which was located in Carpentersville, Illinois. In operation from 1958 to 1969, the track was 3.27 miles long, with a combination of flat and fast, hilly and twisty, open land and forest sections. The track’s most prominent
Jimmy Clark’s Indy winning Lotus on display in the Henry Ford Museum, in what Andrew Ferguson called “…disgusting condition” The crazed and broken fiberglass is hard to see, but the bent suspension arms are very obvious. The Henry Ford Museum, located in
It is a given that machines are fallible devices, and that the older a machine gets, the more likely it is that something will indeed fail. In this particular case, it was the throttle cable of my 1973 Europa Special that decided to
February 12th this year, marked the 25th anniversary of my having purchased my Lotus Europa Special. It is a milestone which is hard to accept, because it really doesn’t seem all that long ago. Not many people get the chance