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Hey Terry, I am going to have the 7 out this weekend, may go for a short drive with another 7. You're welcome to come by Saturday. I'll PM you my address.

I wish I had seen this earlier. I just got done with a 2.5 week chicago to LA route 66 trip. I am sad I didnt see you. I suppose any advice now is moot.

Probably correct Bud....later car. 0 to 60 in 1/2 a minute

@GumballF355 I did end up getting a 420R from Rich but have since moved from SJ to Houston lol. I do miss the Bay Area quite a bit but life takes you places.

Unless it's been modified/upgraded it should be a single Stromberg carb in a 1500 Spitfire. All my former British sports cars had SU's, but I think the Stromberg's were used because they were easier to pass emissions. As well as your normal ignition/fuel supply checks, maybe take the dashpot off and check that the rubber diaphragm isn't damaged.

Did you end up getting one? Theres a few around the South San Jose area. Im at the end of Almaden and building an MK Sportscars kit. Any chance the one you saw was a green caterham? I’ve seen it around sparingly too and I know a few other local guys who own them.

Lee! Good to see you here brother. I’m building one of the MK kits! Care to come have a look see?

2025 is shown on the title. SB100 is your friend in CA.

Has it ever been clarified which manufacturer (model/year/part number) the steering rack is from?

8x13 not 15 and not by design...What is a Birkinized Caterham?

SU carbs.... not overly hard to tune but prone to leaking (seems to be a Brit car design function in that period)...any gunk will really mess them up. Use good filters not those goofy stock steel mesh ones that can only keep small birds from entering the throats....

Your Spitfire's got a carburetor, not fuel injection, right? I'm trying to remember all the things that would go off on my former carbureted cars - TR4 and BMW 2002. Clogged jets and fuel filters weren't unusual. You note that the car had been sitting for a few years. Had the old gas been drained? The other common failure source was burnt or out-of-gap ignition points. Thing about the old technology is it was usually possible to get the cars to run, even if poorly. My newer (former) fun cars (Alfa Spider and Ferrari 328) were more of the "either runs or doesn't" mode. I'm hoping that my Caterham will be more predictable and easier to diagnose/fix.

Wow. Great stuff. Very interesting about the navigation.

That looks amazing. I have been looking for something prettier and more civilized than my Exocet. We have considered a K20A swap for that car... Also looking at Caterhams but the prices are wild. We know our way around Miatas so I might have to try one of these out.

Nice looking car. I am curious about the NHTSA VIN. Does the car show up as a 2025 MK Sportscars RX5 250 or as a 1960 Lotus or something like that? California things...

I've got an intake for an early xflow, the one everybody calls the Cortina engine Not as much flow as the later "uprated" model this is for the older engines with the combustion chamber in the head it has had some race prep done on it -port matching FREE to a good home, just cover shipping

(Attn admin: I'm not sure where this should be posted, it's an international event not National, so feel free to relocate, Thanks!) Just returned from the incredible 22nd Taffia Fish and Chip Run in Wales. I’ve been trying for several years (entries are capped at 300 cars, it was fully booked in 2 hours) and finally made the cut this year. The Caterham and Lotus Seven Club and the Taffia F&C Run organizers did an incredible job in hosting what has to be the premier Seven motoring event of the year. Starting with a BBQ on Friday evening (camping alongside your Seven for the hardiest of souls), Saturday morning breakfast (BAP), and run (some 263 cars made the start) from the Hanley Farm Shop (Chepstow) 140 miles north to Aberdyfi and Walkers Fish and Chips on the Irish Sea coast. The Sunday return to Chepstow on your own allowed for alternative routings to take in Mt. Snowdon, the Mach Loop, and the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park. It was UK touring at its finest, the beautiful countryside and greenery with never ending winding roads, lakes, rivers and seacoast, the essence of British sports car motoring, and in a proper British car, the Seven. I think several USA7s members have made previous Taffia F&C Runs, and I highly recommend it for any Seven owners must do list. I see Vovchandr has just posted a link to a Youtube video of this years run and Caterham Cars will be coming out with a 2026 Taffia Fish and Chip Run video likely similar to their excellent 2025 Youtube video. Thanks to Hannah at Williams Automobiles in Chipping Sodbury near Bristol (highly recommended), we were able to hire a 2015 360SV for the three days. The well broken in (42,000+ miles) Seven ran like a top never missing a beat. Thanks to Caterham Cars who sponsored in part this year’s run as well brought along a CSR Twenty edition and a 310 Encore edition. Finally, many thanks go to Jon Symons and the rest of the 2026 organizing committee and Derek Holliday for doing everything they could to assist us and personally making our F&C Run a success. A few take aways: The supplied mapping / routing and suggested MyRoute-app worked (short term free trial) extremely well with the proper level of map display and text, for the secondary roads of Wales; Google maps less so; and Beeline worked but is really more suited for motorcycles. But there is nothing like a hard copy “Road Book” and a suitable copilot / navigator. The organizing committee put together an incredible Road Book w/ the proper level of detail and notation to help with the many nuances of the roads / routings in Wales, something I haven’t seen in many years. A Club WhatsApp Community was set up for drivers / participants which provided a mechanism for rapid communications for everything from road conditions, detours, construction, weather, assistance needed, status, picture posting etc. which worked very well. Headsets w/ intercom are nice for pilot / co-pilot communications, but not necessary (we used a half hood and side doors / windows, and the rain / wind noise was not bad at all). Finally proper layering and wet weather gear are essential. We left 90 degs and sunny in Austin to arrive in London / Wales with 40’s-50’s maybe low 60’s and rain nearly everyday. This is one time we appreciated the endless heat emanating from the footwells in a Seven. Be on the lookout for notices about next year’s event about Mid-January 2027. Cheers! Steve and Akiko

Week Beginning May 25, 2026 USA7s Classified Ads of Cars for Sale USA7s classified pages - USA7s club members have the benefit of selling their cars by listing them for free on USA7s forum. https://usa7s.net/ips/forum/26-cars-for-sale/ New Ads This Week Lotus 7 https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966-lotus-super-seven/ Locost https://www.facebook.com/share/1Fhzg3nasL/ Locost https://www.facebook.com/share/1HTeQSHMKM/ Locost Project https://www.facebook.com/share/1aG5Nfu1zp/ Repeat Ads From Prior Weeks Lotus 7 https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/listing/1963-lotus-super-seven-cochranville-pa-2891143 Caterham https://www.hemmings.com/listing/1999-caterham-all-models-526915 Caterham https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/caterham/super-seven/2638345.html Caterham https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/listing/2026-caterham-seven-miami-fl-2916813 and here https://www.facebook.com/share/1EAJEkDagy/ Caterham (with all the varying prices just pick the cheapest) https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/listing/1998-caterham-super-seven-fort-lauderdale-fl-2914012 and here https://ebay.us/m/2R2wlX and here https://ebay.us/m/SMLyMd and here https://www.facebook.com/share/1AXjhLATUQ/ Caterham https://www.beachmanracing.com/inventory Caterham https://rockymountaincaterham.com/inventory/ Caterham https://rockymountaincaterham.com/csrtwenty02/ Caterham https://rockymountaincaterham.com/76907-2/ Lotus 7 S3 https://rockymountaincaterham.com/sb2352/ Caterham https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/d/powell-butte-caterham-620r-lotus-super/7935566188.html Lotus 7 https://www.facebook.com/share/1Cc5j4pvti/ Stalker https://www.facebook.com/share/14exgf32PTh/ Locost https://www.facebook.com/share/1J6K2dShqi/ Locost Project https://www.facebook.com/share/1B4BP6dQvZ/ Locost Project https://www.facebook.com/share/18sFGTJh5B/ Stalker https://www.facebook.com/share/1EEDMe9P6i/ Caterham https://www.facebook.com/share/1CfGYFDLFU/ Caterham https://www.facebook.com/share/18aCEbrxjP/ Locost Project https://www.facebook.com/share/1D4HivRnuL/ Locost Project https://www.facebook.com/share/1GfrZgT9sA/ Caterham https://www.facebook.com/share/1BKSRmK36V/ Lotus 7 S2 https://www.facebook.com/share/1LsWgiNxHq/ Locost https://www.facebook.com/share/1CxxvCeZvS/ Caterham https://www.facebook.com/share/1937mUJP4A/ Locost Project https://www.facebook.com/share/1Bc3rqPhkK/ Locost https://www.facebook.com/share/18xQMcZTfL/ Diva https://www.facebook.com/share/1RiDwjBjV9/ Westfield Pre Lit https://www.facebook.com/share/1Zs9enm538/ Locost https://www.facebook.com/share/17VwscXNKB/ Locost https://www.facebook.com/share/1BLczqL1Qp/ Caterham SP300R https://www.facebook.com/share/1Go1mHtizW/ Caterham https://www.facebook.com/share/1BYo79UNAR/ Canada Ads Westfield https://www.autotrader.ca/offers/lotus-unspecified-westfield-seven-gasoline-green-47b3e30f-5dd5-4722-9b91-7f3938fd58f4 and here https://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars/delta-surrey-langley/lotus-westfield-seven/1737752047 and here https://www.facebook.com/share/1HD1efdUwo/ Locost Project https://www.autotrader.ca/offers/bmw-2002-kit-car-9b5e3f67-7e4f-4f56-acac-2df6e6c12e99 Westfield https://www.facebook.com/share/18VUxNYgG8/ Caterham https://www.facebook.com/share/1B5xct6QRD/

I'm still planning to use four of the 8 x 15 wheels I have on my Birkinized Caterham. Doesn't sound improper to me.

Try just making a route with route7 and (I assume on your phone) click "Navigate full route". That sends the first 10 waypoints directly to Maps, just a big 10-point URL. Maps will automatically route turn-by-turn to the first waypoint, and when you get there it starts to the next. I did it yesterday with Android Auto, it was surprisingly easy. Exporting GPX & importing to Beeline is like 13 clicks total. Also very easy, but not quite as easy as the one-click Maps kickoff.

I'm looking to have the beeline like experience on my watch. Maps has an arrow mode, which I've used, but I've not had good success importing GPX files with Google Maps in the past.

For those dollars almost want to get one just to see how good it might be. Could put up four or five.

Received my zoom mirror the other day. Haven’t had a chance to mount it yet. But looks great. Thanks for the inspiration.

Can users see other people's public routes? Not implemented. I haven't spent much time on this feature, other than the distinction between "public" and "unlisted". Right now there's no exposure or search for the "public" ones. The primary use-case is "past a link in the forum", which works for both public and unlisted routes. How would you expect "discovery" to work? search, browse, pins-on-map ? (any of those should be ~easy) Can users import routes from other sources? Not yet... how would it work? GPX-style import should be super easy, at least for coarse GPX without a lot of waypoints. If you have an idea or application in mind, happy to discuss. re: vibecoded: it's currently private, I'm tryin to decide what to do about it. Are you thinking to make a Beeline-like WatchOS app with turn-by-turn? Gemini says: Because it's a Google platform, Google Maps is deeply integrated into Wear OS right out of the box and gives you full turn-by-turn navigation, including a live, interactive map view on your wrist, standard text directions, and haptic turn alerts. It also works fully standalone if you have a LTE/cellular model. I assume you want to simplify the experience somehow, with more like the Beeline arrow and a distance to next turn?

Very cool. I put a quick route from near home to a place that has cheap burger specials. This looks pretty straight forward to use. If it's vibe coded, care to share it on GitHub? I'm looking to do something related. I'm looking to build the other side of this, an app that shows the turn by turn akin to BeeLine that runs on Google Watch that supports GPX. Can users see other people's public routes? Can users import routes from other sources?