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I was sorting through some of the spare parts I got with my 1989 Caterham and found two of these. I have no idea where they were installed or what they are for. Made of steel and with excellent welds and paint. Any ideas? Thanks, Eric

Without giving away too many fashion secrets, I do also often wear a sun hoodie (I forget the brand, it's unimportant — probably an alphabet soup amazon brand. There are ones from fancy running brands but the one I got was cheap) for when it's hot out and I don't want to get sunscreen everywhere. Thin, stretchy, cycling jersey-like material, with long sleeves and thumb hooks. Works great.

I like to wear sunglasses, a baseball cap, a lightweight hooded jacket with the hood over the hat, and a neck gaiter over the top of everything. The neck gaiter provides sun protection for my face and keeps the jacket hood from flapping, and the hood keeps the hat on my head. Ear plugs underneath it all and driving 70+ mph is comfortable. This is with a windscreen and wind deflectors. Without the windscreen I wear a full face helmet.

Sorry, a price would be helpful. I'd be happy with $2,000 or best offer.

I'll apologize in advance to the other person who has one of these for sale at the moment, but I'll admit his is in better overall condition! I have one of these small tilt trailers available for sale. As I'm sure most are aware, these were made specifically for the Stalker. Mine has a 144" long deck and is 76 wide. I've towed my car with my wife's minivan and my old Tacoma without any issue whatsoever. It's such a lightweight package that almost anything with a hitch can pull this thing. Electric brakes and lighting all work great. Hubs maintained every season and it's only used for local autocrosses a few times per year. I have an entire spare hub assembly in the front toolbox as well. It could use a spit shine as the paint isn't pristine but no serious rust issues and is in overall good shape. Please let me know if you have any questions. I just sold my car and the new owner already had a (HUGE) trailer so he passed on this one. Thank you!

I used to get that question a lot. Did not have a VIN. Had a simple 4-digit serial number after the "65" designation. 65 2597. Supposedly, she was the 2589th Europa built, Lotus having started the serial numbers with the Lotus 46 and continued through the Lotus 54, and the Lotus 65 "Federal". The Twinks were Lotus 74, I think, but they came too late to be numbered this way. Though we all know that Chappers played fast and loose with serial numbers. They were making the Lotus 54 for Europe and the Lotus 65 for the USA at the same time for a while. Were there duplicate serial numbers between the two types. I have not seen a specific example, but it could be the rumors are true. Although she was a 1970 Model, Grace was made in November 1969, and the rules for VIN didn't kick in until January 1, 1970. The rules changed again about 1981. I used to get a lot of static from guys who insisted that 1970 cars had to have the "new" numbers, but everything matched up for a November 1969 build date, 65 2597 serial number, and a 1970 model-year, just like it said on the factory ID plate. Glad I looked this up. I have lately been thinking that the 710-012 Collector plate was left over from my MG Midget, but that can't be correct because I sold that car to a Minnesota buyer and let him take the plates. This Minnesota record shows that 710-012 was the plate I got for the Europa in 1991 when I bought the car. The seller had just bought new regular-car plates for it, having until then been displaying the Hawaii plates. It was just about that time that Minnesota started requiring only rear plates for Collector cars. When I registered Susie's Triumph as a Collector car in 2000, I had to ask for two plates (TR44SUE). The clerk wrote it in the margin: "Issue 2 plates" for which they did not charge me extra. Same thing happened when I bought Susie the Stag (UNK JACK) in 2010. You will notice there is nothing after "PLATES EXPIRE" on the Minnesota title tab. That's because Collector Plates do not expire. Since I sold the Europa to a Triumph guy in Illinois, I kept the 710-012 plate. It should still be mine just as TR44SUE and 74PHIL are. i should be able to use 710-012 to register another Collector car. If the Birkin gets sold to a Minnesotan, I will let the Collector plate go with it and save the buyer some money.

Grace N. Violence in earlier days, wearing the ill-advised paint she was subjected to in Hawaii. She left the factory Lotus #7 Yellow. At least part of her was for a time a nice metallic blue. Then came this awful, hard as a rock, black paint over silly custom work. The only fiberglass change my predecessors started that made any sense to me was removing the warts. I finished that job when I painted her white with spray cans. The heat in the car with the black paint was terrible. Why anyone would think to do this on Oahu is difficult to imagine. Nobody was ever going to believe she was a JPS. The changes to the fuel fillers were ugly and virtually inoperative. Actually more-difficult to fuel than a Seven. I measured a friend's stock S2 for the correct location to holesaw, flipped it for the right side (Grace had the optional second tank) and glassed over the crappy recesses on the sails. Bought new filler tubes and it all fit perfectly. Gasoline literally fell into the tanks at the gas station. The right tank was a perfect mirror of the left except it had no provision for a gauge sender. The 1/4" fuel lines were teed together and thence proceeded to the fuel pump. The tanks would take a while to equalize. Fuel starvation from autocross cornering was not a problem. None of that tank slap my MG Midget had.

What’s her VIn?

Here is my Europa, Grace N.Violence, at LOG 22 with her autocross trophy. I think she came third overall and second in class.

You might find a zipper-equipped full hood may be the answer. I like to drive my Caterham full-hood, back window zipped down in hot sunny weather. I did that a lot with my Miata also. A Lowflying author suggests adding a second pull arranged like on luggage. He can then move both of them just around the corners to allow an air-exhaust vent without letting rainwater in. Since he lives in England, he just drove to the factory and gave them the hood, and they sent it too their vendor, who made the change. He totally loves it. I have a great upholstery guy here in Saint Paul, and since I don't want to ship my hood to England and back, I broight the hood to him. Yes, hie can do the work. He just can't seem to find a pull the correct size on this side of the pond. I'm not 6'2". I'm currently working on blocking up the driver seat on my CSR to defeat the effect of the lowered floors.

Unfortunately not - it was just the standard one that came with the full weather kit. Being 6'2", any roof option is not great - either vented or not. :-) I think the half hood looks like a good compromise for the future.

I first met Bob Dance in 2005 in Saint Louis. I took this photo across the Mississippi at Gateway during the Monday track day. What I wrote then: ===== Lotus Cortina race mechanics From the days when these cars were raced by Graham Hill and Jimmy Clark. Taken at 2005 Lotus Owners Gathering track day at Gateway. On our left is Bob Dance and on our right is Bob Sparshott. The gentleman in the middle is Gordon Morris, a Brit who has come to the USA for every LOG since 1991. Gordon drove the Bobs to the race track in the 1966 Mk 1 Lotus Cortina loaned to Gordon by Gary David for his stay in the USA . ===== I was there Lotusless, having just delivered my 1970 Lotus 65 Europa Series 2 to a buyer in central Illinois. I was at the LOG with an empty trailer. Couldn't find a Lotus at the LOG that I could afford in those days. Dave, a Minnesota Lotus buddy of mine, and I spent a wet day driving around the Saint Louis area looking at used Miatas. They were all overpriced. We took one out from dealer and drove the wheels off of it. Much later, I was on Flickr looking at someone's photos of a car show in England. Sure enough, there was Gordon Morris sitting in a chair behind his Seven.

I'm a member of Caterham and Lotus Seven Club, but all I get is the Lowflying magazine, as I'm never in the UK.

Your full hood does not have the zip-open rear window?

Thanks!

The distance between the fender supports is 80". Each of the platforms is 26" wide. The opening between the two platforms is 28". The tire stop that I had welded on the front is 5" from the front of the trailer's leading edge to prevent driving off the front. The distance from the front stop angle pieces to the back of the trailer is approximately 13 feet.

I've found that a military Patrol Cap works well at speed. The bill is small enough that it doesn't generate lift and the top is double layered to help protect my hairless head . https://www.ebay.com/itm/235046265593 Works great! Just need to ensure that you get one that fits your head since they are not elastic. Andy

I've been tricking my wife and sister into making durags. So far I've only lost one of the good ones, and I e earlier store bought. Both at 70+ while passing, I'm an aeroscreen user. Between a durag and gaiter I can keep most my skin covered. But this gets to the earflaps problem, where air buffering the flaps (or gaiter) transmits directly

Oh boy, this is one of my favorite topics (although I still haven't completely cracked the code). I have a full windscreen and (usually) no doors, and run with plexiglass deflectors when the doors are off. Wind is the the real issue as you can imagine. My current strategy is Howard Leight foam earplugs (NRR 33) as the baseline. I also have some twist-fit plugs that do a good job too and are far easier to insert, but the little plastic handle that sticks out the back is very incompatible with wearing a trapper hat with ear flaps (as I am oft to do). Anything contacting the plastic part transfers sound right into your ear. Good for a regular ball cap though, but as many people have noted a ball cap is only good til about 35mph without making it extra tight or using a strap (the number of people recommending cap-surz in this thread has my attention, as I've already lost one of my beloved cycling caps on the road...). Of course a set of Peltor earmuffs will also keep a hat down (for off-highway use only of course, likewise with AirPods Pro fitting underneath for excellent noise cancellation and sound). As for glasses, wraparound cycling shades are good to a certain point and I often use them, but I'm always looking for something to keep ALL the wind out of my eyes. 3M Solus/Virtua with indoor/outdoor lenses are for when it's really cloudy or when I'm caught out after dark: And more recently I've found some pretty cheap tinted Carhartt goggles with a gasket that do well. Optimally I want to find something like this with a better lens (polarized, because the windshield is a bastard for reflections). They can be converted between sunglasses and goggles and were dirt cheap (link provided for reference, I got them at amazon but they now show as unavailable) There are several other safety glasses/goggles I have my eyes on but they're all a bit more expensive so I haven't gotten them just to try. Yet.

I sent you a message.

Both my polarized sunglasses and my Transitions glasses are in Ray-Ban DADDY-0 frames. I was totally sold on these things by a LensCrafters salesgal in Colorado Springs. I had just towed in from Minnesota for the Lotus Owners Gathering and my sunglasses seemed to have a coating delaminating. "Hello, sir, what can we do for you today." My wraparounds are shot and I'd like to replace them. I'm myopic with astigmatism. "Wraparounds take ten days." I won't be in Colorado in ten days. "You should do what the bikers do." Do you mean motorcyclists or bicyclists? "Yes." She reached into a drawer and handed me a DADDY-0 sample. It fit. When I got back to The Cities, I found that both a Harley-rider and an ex-mountain-biker autocrosser I knew were wearing DADDY-Os. Up near Superior Wisconsin at an autocross venue where nobody knows me, I actually had a young eyeglass-wearing guy ask me what they were because they were the coolest and he wanted a pair. It was an overcast day so my Transitions didn't even look like sunglasses. I often like to drive my Caterham with full windshield, top on, no doors. A USA7s member put me on to some 3M low-profile headphones with about half the normal sound attenuation. I took it a step further and pulled out the foam. These phones completely kill the turbulence in my ears and I can still hear what is going on around me. Driving without the top, I add a baseball cap. The phones keep the cap on. Interesting feature of the 'phones is that the button on the top of the cap fits in the split of the phones' band. In Minnesota it is legal to run music in one ear, but not both, so I run the risk of being stopped. No problem, as I can easily show the officer that there are no speakers in the phones. I took the Birkin with windshield and windwings to a novice autocross school, I used an open helmet so that the students could hear me more clearly. When I first got the 1700, it was about 50 degrees. I found I could drive topless with a full-face helmet. When I stopped for a red light, it would fog up. Snapping up the shield caused the fog to clear instantly. As soon as I got moving, I would snap the shield down. When I bought Darren's CSR, he was kind-enough to include a pair of wraparound goggles. I can't use them, because I need corrective lenses. The CSR has a cage and an aeroscreen with the right portion removed. Whether or not I wind up cutting the aeroscreen down to the height of the central section, I expect I will always be using one of my full-face helmets with this car.

Just paid a fortune and ordered the foam from Caterham direct and the gaskets off eBay. I’ll have to check them out next time.

Chris at Sevens and Elans has always gotten me foam and gaskets as needed. I have a set coming shortly.

Ah. So the oil pump is immune to the clutch-limit disaster. It would be the thrust washer itself that would take the hit. I wonder how unusual the Zetec is for its oil-pump placement.