The Lotus Elan internet mailing list and forum has been aching for a place to keep historical information on the Elan. Several years ago lotuselan.net pulled the registry because the email addresses were being harvested and no one stepped up to replace it. Well, last week in a conversation on the mailing list I...
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Archive for January, 2004
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More Interior
It seems the interior is taking forever and the more progress I make, the more I have to undo. Today I worked “finished” the under carpet padding and started to assemble the package shelf. In putting things together and thinking ahead to the carpet installation, it made sense to unbolt the roll-bar. After realizing...
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Interior Door Trim
I finished recovering the door panels with new vinyl. If I don’t say so myself, it looks very good, even better than the original. A couple of lessons learned during the process. Back the vinyl with some thin, and I mean very thin, foam rubber. This smoothes the surface of the fiberglass and gives...
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Doors
With the help of SHMBO, I installed the right hand window frame and window motor into the right hand door skin. I even hooked up the window motor to my trusty power supply and ran the window up and down a couple of times. Very exciting. After making sure the lock mechanism worked, we...
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