Promoting Lotus Cars throughout Chicago
The next and hopefully final stage of my Europa revival moves the car to Northshore Sportscars where Norb, Keith, Rich and Michelle took custody. Prior to sending the car, my friend Ron and I lifted the body shell off the
By Rick Barenholtz On July 5th 2019, I dropped off my Twin Cam engine parts to Barry Sales at PHP Racengines. I say engine parts because the engine was disassembled nearly 30 years ago. So was the 1973 Twin Cam
While preparing the Europa for the drive to Bloomington and the Champagne British Car Festival last May, I thought it would be a good time to change the gear oil in the transaxle. I had bought a couple of quarts
Lotus Corps members may have seen the recent advertisements for a new scale model of the Lotus Europa Special by Automodello. If you happen to be a Europa owner or enthusiast such as myself, this model must certainly have piqued
By Richard Anderson I had once owned a bug-eye Sprite for five years, an Alfa Spi-der for five years, and a desire to own a Lotus. This was mostly because it would be fiberglass, but also because it would be
Last month, Part 1 of this article detailed this project that I undertook to true up the body fit on my Lotus Europa in an attempt to get panel fits close to contemporary specifications. That’s typically a 4 or 5
There is some fanaticism required to restore and then love an early Lotus. I did a complete mechanical and cosmetic restoration of my Twin Cam and many of you have seen the results. She’s sweet! I had the body professionally
I got an email from the new owner who was happy with the car, which made me feel good. He cleaned the car up from the transport to Canada and took it to the Toronto British car festival. There were over
Now comes the next challenge, selling the car. What price for all this work? No Europa is worth Ferrari bucks. But then again, this is a very nice Europa. Not many Europas have had a body off restoration. If you
I picked up the car from Ken the interior guy (great work as usual) and began working away at the couple of small but pesky bugs still left in the car. I had sent out the Tach and Speedo to MoMa