demoray

It's good to hear your positive outcome. Was that Honda S800 coupe as pretty as they look online? I've never had the opportunity to see one in person, but love the look in photos.

I took a rock to the chest at 60mph on the highway in my sand rail years ago. After that, I'll never run without either a full windscreen or full face helmet.

It's a rare day when I'm out in my 7 that I don't get asked what I'm driving. I've simplified what I say to something basically like this: "it's a Caterham 7. Originally designed in the late 50s by the founder of Lotus to enable them to go racing. They are available with a number of different engines. Mine has a rather spicy 2.3 litre Duratec, built by Cosworth."

I agree that the two color wall mockups look pretty sweet.

I'll be replacing the oil catch can with a unit I bought from Mocal, but I have to fabricate a new bracket to mount it. Investigating replacing my harnesses is on the short list as well, such that I will be ready for the usa7s outing at NJMP.

Put it on my calendar as well. Time to start prepping my 7.

The Northern Virginia Lotus Club had a "Get Your Lotus Out" meetup today, with *37* lotuses in attendance, including five 7s.

Have you read the tariff paperwork? Multiple lawyers I've interacted from both sides of the pond are struggling to understand how things fall out. It's an inconsistent, complicated, and fluctuating mess.

Let's try again as jpg.

Apparently there are two 7s in the inbound RORO of the Baltimore port at the moment. My brother-in-law sent me these this morning. (Deleted unsupported files)

A family member that works in the docks saw it as well. They said it was in the RORO area from Japan.

I wear a pair of Wiley X Gravity prescription sunglasses from Sport RX. They have impact rating, a removable foam gasket which reduces impact from wind/dust, and a removable elastic strap to keep them secure to my head. These are *much* better than any other sunglasses I've used for reducing strain from wind. The styling is a bit too "tacticool" for my taste but they are exceptionally good at what I need them for, so I deal with it.

Depending on your locale, the in dual light install from the das76 light kit may not be legal. As much as I like the look of that kit, I had to use something different. My Maryland inspection required a single central light. I went with the JAL third brake light kit which was exceptionally simple to add. https://justaddlightness.co.uk/product/caterham-7-high-level-led-third-brake-light/

I agree that process feels clunky compared to Amazon or the like, but I similarly appreciate the willingness to answer questions given how much variation there is across the generations of our cars. My only frustration is the payment service they use is even more clunky than the process, which means I've had to call and provide my credit card over the phone to place an order. I'll continue to order from them in the future, while being thankful for the communication and grumbling at the payment processor.

In my newish-to-me CSR, the washer bottle oil catch tank (similar to the one shown in @Croc's picture earlier in this thread) has a slice in the plastic along the seam where it attaches to the mounting bracket. I found this upon changing the oil, which resulted in a mess similar to the first picture in this thread. On caterhamlotus7.club, I found a handful of other threads where people ran into a similar problem. I'll be looking to replace my split plastic bottle with something less fragile.