3735 3738 3750 3756 Saturday was the All British Field Meet in Portland. Nadya drove the Elan and I drove the Seven. The only car at the show that I thought was special was a BRM Elan. I never thought I’d see a real, or even a fake, BRM but there it was.There were a number of Elises at the show. The most amazing thing was we had no duplicated colors. Quite a sight.Just...
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Lotus Elise
Another track day
Another trackday for the Elise this time with the local Lotus Club As usual, there were some cool cars to look at and chase on the track. More unusual were the plethora of Lotus cars! All told, there were 14 Lotus not counting pure race cars at the track. Of course 10 of them were Elise (or should that be Elises?) 3661 3673 3688 3691 3655
3200 Miles and a set of brake pads
Friday was the third trackday for the Elise and I had a wonderful time. How can you not have a good time playing hooky from work to hang out with friends and drive as fast as you dare? I ran 5 20 minute sessions and put about 130 miles on the car for an average speed of 78 mph. During that 130 miles I used two full tanks of gas and a third of...
Identified
So who was that man? He was a photographer from the Oregonian taking pictures for an article in the Sunday paper. A few weeks ago, Arun at Motocorsa called and asked if I wanted to be interviewed for the paper. I agreed and with a single hour with the reporter on one day, almost three hours with the photographer on another two days an article in the paper was born. Way back when, I...
Who is this man?
342 And why is he taking Jim’s picture? Stay tuned …..