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Info resource for the classic lotus elan owner.

Lotus elan Front Suspension Action.

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The front suspension of the elan has always been considered to be very well designed. And as Peter Egan of Road And Track Say’s. The Elan definitely gets the Pure Exquisiteness of Driving Award. It’s the ballet slipper of sports cars, with an urgency and immediacy usually found only in single-seater racing cars. I suspect […]

26R-S2 Elan Hard To Find Parts.

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Now that the earliest of the Lotus elan is more than fifty years old, there are certain parts peculiar to the early models that are rare and hard to find. Take Charlie Green from the USA who has been restoring his treasured S2 for several years, in fact he has owned the car for forty […]

Classic Le’Mans 2014 – Lotus Images.

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The following images were supplied by my good friend Jean Michel Pages from France who attended the 2013 and this years 2014 Le’Mans Classic event.  If one was planning and OS trip, you would have to include this event on your itinerary. The classic event offers a large collection of some of the finest racing […]

Is Sophisticated Equipment Required To ReBuild A Classic Race Car?

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Perhaps The Headline Should Read: Is Sophisticated Equipment Required To ReBuild A Classic Race Or Sports Car? In the first instance, the major requirement for the would be race car builder would be to be a well versed and skilled engineer, and to possess detailed workshop practice  “know how” as well as possessing the the […]

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About The Elan .

A Motoring Scribes Description Of The Lotus Elan..... A well maintained lotus elan is like automotive LSD. There is nothing else like it, no Porsche, no Jaguar, nothing drives like this car does. Kind of like what it is like to date a really beautiful woman---- total Nirvana while it lasts, and not impossible to keep it going as long as you continue to maintain, do preventative servicing, the elan will serve you well. Why Not Make That Total Nirvana Keep On - Keeping On, Install a elantrikbits CVDS Conversion.

The Lotus Elan

For a 1650cc engine coupled with an ultra close ratio gearbox, and a well tuned chassis and suspension, the elan just squats, rips, grips and goes. I have never driven such a nicely balanced sports car that provides great acceleration, and simply the best fun fixing grins going.

Duckworthisms – (Source – Cosworth – The Search For Power).

> A genius can make for a penny, what a good engineer can only make for 10p.
> It is better to be uninformed than ill-informed.
> One of my principles is that young fools go on to become old fools.