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http://img.pistonheads.com.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Fullsize/caterham/all-models/caterham-all-models-S1471029-1.jpg It was built on a modified Caterham 7 frame so it is a much smaller car than it appears in the pictures. I'd love to have one. http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/caterham/all-models/caterham-21/2752372

Taber, I'm thinking you should add an account of the GGB and the bear encounter.

Check out the December issue of Hemming's Sports & Exotic Car magazine, page 50. First read the letter entitled "Lotus Sevens Expeditions" by Tom Meacham (Alaskossie on this forum). Then read "Speaking of Ross Robbins". By the end of the first paragraph I was truly LOLing.

I found the parallel landing video. It was obviously set up by Virgin America and Galactic about three years ago to celebrate the opening of their new terminal at SFO. __________________

Which car laid those two strips of rubber across the bridge?

Virgin Galactic's White Knight 2 and Spaceship 2 rendezvoused with a commercial flight over San Francisco. They landed on parallel runways at San Francisco but that part is not shown in this video. http://www.chonday.com/Videos/jegalctospc2

I don't like the new square (rectangular) emblem at all. Stands out like a turd in a punch bowl. He is planning on having a spare on the back in the near future. He got a can of (expired) fix a flat with the car and no jack. I gave him a Miata jack to use if necessary. He is still in the process of getting it through the licensing process.

A friend stopped by with his new Caterham 120. The car has the Sigma 120 HP engine with a T9 5 speed. He offered to let me drive it and I accepted even though I was concerned my SV sized body would not fit in the driver seat. It was a very tight fit, not comfortable at all. He even had to latch the seat belt for me while I leaned as far out the side of the car as possible. My size 11.5 wide feet even in my Piloti driving shoes had to turn sideways a bit to operate the brake pedal when my left foot was on the clutch. First impressions were, very quiet exhaust, much quicker and easier steering and a much smaller turning circle than my SV. As the engine had only 380 miles on it I kept it under 4k rpm at the owner's suggestion and did not give it full throttle up to the 4k limit. I think he said the redline would be 7k when broken in. The suspension felt softer and giving it small but quick left and right turns going down the road it felt like it was leaning noticeably more than my car. It does react to the steering quicker and easier, partly due to the narrower tires. On the neighborhood informal skid pad it made a much smaller circle than the SV but not nearly as much grip before the tires started to squeal and were about the let go. Other than the tight fit I liked the car a lot. Some pictures are at: http://s1261.photobucket.com/user/scannon929/media/Caterham%20120/DSCN6436_zpsc6d34471.jpg.html

That's a steal at that price. If I had the spare cash I would have two Sevens in my shop.

Randy, Nice solution. How sturdy of a mount does that make it? Any vibration at speed? My wind wings rattle at certain speeds, it seems like the added pressure of the mirrors at speed might mitigate that.

http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/f94/there-anyone-interested-buy-lotus-263977/ 1993 Westfield with a supercharged S2000 engine. No price given. Gorgeous car. Does it belong to anyone on this forum? http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/attachments/f94/454969d1413573387-there-anyone-interested-buy-lotus-20140817_161633.jpg http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/attachments/f94/454993d1413573387-there-anyone-interested-buy-lotus-jay3.jpg http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/attachments/f94/455097d1413574889-there-anyone-interested-buy-lotus-jay7.jpg

Welcome aboard Steve. This is not a project but a complete car (but then isn't every Lotus a project?). http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/4706549273.html No pictures in the ad but it was at the British Motoring Conclave in September and looked well taken care of.

I think they make quite a difference. Others claim they make it worse. I added the little stand offs at the bottom of the wind wings. Adding the mirrors lowered the buffeting even more. I also have the Mirrors for Sevens and I really like it.

I was looking for pictures of your mirrors, can you post some or a link to them? I have motorcycle mirrors that thread into the rear mounts for the windshield or Brooklands screens. I can use them with or without the side curtains. I had to drill out the brackets behind the sheet metal and tap them to a 10mm 1.25 thread to accommodate the threads on the mirror stems. http://usa7s.com/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=2870&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1299981268 http://usa7s.com/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=2869&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1299981268

When using that URL I got a notice I was about to log into mac.com as beachmanracing. I clicked on the OK and got the Macintosh web site.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our northern friends. Peace and plenty to you all.

Pictures of the new shoes and the designer insoles. I wore them for a drive to a car show and then to a party on Saturday. They did well for new shoes and a lot of walking. They felt better than my sneakers or the Pilotis while driving the Caterham today.

Mine arrived a couple of days ago. My first thought when I took them out of the box was that they looked like the bowling shoes I so often rented out when I worked on the desk of a bowling alley in the '60s. I suspect that I will be asked if I really wear size 5 bowling shoes. The extra pair of designer insoles was nice but I have to have custom insoles and a pair of them fit perfectly in the new shoes. I think a pair of the designer insoles will find themselves a spot on the wall of my shop. The shoes will get their first driving experience today as the weather is nice and I am headed for a car show. I haven't decided whether to change to the yellow laces but probably will.

I have a few Snap On tools, most were given to me for birthdays and such. I still prefer working with my Craftsman tools. Neither of us has everything and we borrow back and forth as necessary. I met him when another friend took me to his place to meet him and the Snap On truck was parked in his driveway, a monthly occurrence. He had a $500 a month Snap On habit for decades. Hope that bolt didn't do much damage, and didn't hit your bourbon supply.:rofl:

Our Alaskan correspondent (Alaskossie) has informed me that the graphic at the end of the clip depicting the shrinkage of the glacier does not represent the glacier in the video but is that of a much smaller glacier located in Alaska.

Sorry X, I've not been feeling too jocular this evening. A liberal application of beer, tequila and Kentucky bourbon in that order has since helped smooth things out. I have a fair amount of Harbor Freight stuff in my tool cabinets but mostly Craftsman. I have a friend who has somewhere in the area of $100k worth of Snap On tools, I get a lot of grief from him too.

Many people in the Miata world use the same Harbor Freight kit, I have used it before with no problems. The only part of the kit I use is the C clamp itself. I'll be happy if I only have to buy the four bushing set for the lower front end of the car. Each type of control arms of the car has its bushings in a separate box. Earlier in the day I brewed a cup of chai on my K-cup machine while I was fixing lunch. I looked over at the machine as it finished and discovered I had forgotten to turn over the cup, chai tea was running everywhere. I had been cleaning and leaving the cup upside down after use as one morning I picked up the cup to find a large insect floating in the coffee.

Love that manifold flange!

Another oh shit here today. I'm replacing all the suspension bushings on my Miata with 30% stiffer ones from IL Motorsports (via FM). I'm using a Harbor Freight ball joint kit which is a very stout C clamp held in the vice and some spacing rings made to fit by my machinist friend. I use a 3/8" drive impact wrench since with my bad shoulders I can't put enough pressure on it even with an 18" ratchet. I was pressing in the 3rd bushing and it wasn't going quite far enough to pop the ear out the back and fit correctly in the subframe. I gave it one more try and the outside rubber flange finally met up with the boss. Just as that happened the bushing sheared and the metal spacer and 2/3rds of the rubber popped out the other side leaving the outer third of the bushing in the bore. I hope I don't have to buy a whole set to get one replacement. There are 22 bushings in a set.

I came very close to the same thing last night. I was opening up a Miata engine on an engine stand to look for the source of a rod knock. The pans are glued on with Ultra Gray from the factory and I was using a pry bar on the pan at the rear of the engine when a friend said stop, we missed one of the bolts. It was at the other end of the pan.