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The Mitta Omeo Hwy Loop.

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A Fabulous 391 Km Group Drive. If there is one thing that epitomises the best in driving, it is to gather a bunch of like minded sports car buffs and their classic cars together for a long day drive through the magnificent Australian alpine country… beautiful scenery, fantastic roads, great company, on the perfect Autumn […]

Lotus Elan 50th First Lap at Brands.

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You don't often get see a great field of just lotus elans on the race track, as is often the case they are mixed up with a host of other cars of all different capacities, but when you watch a single lotus elan marque race, you get to see how fantastic the elan really is. […]

Muffler Repack Project

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How To Dismantle and Repack A Mild Steel Exhaust Sports Muffler. Motor cycle enthusiasts have long had the luxury of re-packable sports mufflers. But it appears that re-pack sports mufflers for the car enthusiast are not so common, or readily available… at a reasonable price. Over the past few months the writer has been investigating […]

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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.