Elan

A Good Excuse to go Visit My Brother, Part 2

Part 2 of 2 (Back to Part 1) The next morning we headed East to meet my brother and his wife at Mt. St. Helens. They had driven up from their home and we met them at the Mt. St.

A Good Excuse to go Visit My Brother

Part 1 of 2 It’s not that I didn’t get along with my brother. We lived at home with Mom & Dad for the first 22 years of my life. Sure we had some squabbles but nothing serious. It’s just

Cost Overruns

As most of you know, my hobby is restoring old Lotus Elans. I usually find a cheap basket case that needs everything, drag it and all the boxes of parts home and then spend a couple thousand hours and tens

In search of Unobtainium

Some Lotus Elan parts are harder to find than others. But we are lucky to have several Lotus parts suppliers that supply parts without crazy mark ups. They also will not hesitate to have parts made. Ray at RD Enterprises, Dave at Dave Bean Engineering, or Jay

The Lotus Position

Classic Motorsports magazine covers a lot of topics about classic and vintage cars across many different marques… British, German, Italian, and sometimes American. Recently though, there has been deeper delving into the Lotus spectrum. Last summer, there was a side-by-side

Musical Elan Chassis

You know the game called “Musical Chairs” that you played when you were a kid? Some adults would set up a bunch of chairs in a circle facing outwards, one less chair then there were kids. The music would start and you would walk around the chairs until the music stopped and you had to