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I’m at Laguna Seca. I’ll go see who’s doing the tires.

If it is not a Lotus you may be able to go through the SB-100 process and register it that way.

Takes me back to when McDonald's got sued for hot coffee that spilled in a ladies crotch...

Playing with a new GoPro and some GPS software.

Look at the Golden Gate Lotus Club. Great events and incredible people. https://gglotus.org/track.html tom

Why get down and lay on the garage floor when you can get your grandson to do it? Maybe he can clean up the garage next...

Thanks. But based on my ability to run over stuff that destroys the trailer fenders I don't think I want carbon ones. Maybe if someone is upgrading from fiberglass to carbon I could help them by buying their old ones...

It turns out that the fenders on my trailer are Seven cycle fenders. This week while returning from the Central Coast one of them departed. So I'm looking for fiberglass front cycle fenders if anyone has some to sell. Thanks Tom

Golden State Classic car show in Paso Robles today.

I used an online calculator to try get a close estimate to my new tank capacity. I think I got close... https://www.vcalc.com/wiki/volume-of-a-tapered-trough Tom

Where in the Bay Area. I'll be up in Belmont in two weeks and could be interested. tom

I bought a set of Race Ramps to lessen the angle so my car would not hang up when I loaded/unloaded it. They are light and work just fine.

Thank you all for the great advice and help. As I was preparing to drill out the first rivet a friend of mine asked if he could take a look. He obviously understands this stuff better than I, and can get under the dash. In about 20 minutes he had the problem resolved and everything working. It was a "Swiss cheese" issue, with a couple of little issues that added up to the failure of the gauges. I will get to the rivets towards the end of the year, after the LUG event in Salt Lake City. Thanks again. Tom

From that era but the rivets are beneath the lip of the scuttle and not accessible, even with a 90 degree air powered drill. I may have instrument panel PTSD from the time a friend removed the panel from a Cessna 140 with a Sawzall. The tach is receiving 12 volts and is grounded, the other instruments don't work. All of the fuses are good.

Here is a photo of the seam. I don't think the scuttle has been removed since the car was assembled in 1982. Paint is not an issue as there is none. I will try fishing line first and then maybe default to safety wire. There are two bolts in each side that shouldn't be a big deal. Drilling out 14 or even 26 rivets would only get me part way. I seem to have 48 of them on 1" centers. This all began when I replaced the wiper switch. I've obviously disconnected a wire as none of the electric gauges work. I'm too old and inflexible to get under there. Besides it might be time to remove the accumulated stuff that has collected there in the last 40+ years. Thanks for the help. Tom