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posted on ebay after 9 months of unsuccessful sale. Our beloved Birkin s3. In perfect shape everything is ready and 100%. Reserve is set at 17k, we are taking a 10k loss on the car unless bid goes higher. Robert Kansa 330-714-3740

And...she's still for sale. just waiting for her new owner to have years of fun.

I saw Craigs car, very nice, and Craig does great work. but with all respect the Birkin i have for sale is in much cleaner condition. We are asking $19K for the car.

Birkin Chassis lotus 7. Asking only $19,000!! second owner from 1k miles, 1999 chassis like new.. only 15k miles. Car is in show condition, with multiple car show trophies.and has only been in 1 speed event, an autocross that it got FTD. 1600 x-flow engine t9 tranny. Oil cooler with SS braided lines. Electramotive crank trigger, twin 40 dcoe webers with sock style air filters. Custom made overflow tanks. Front lip spoiler easily removed, custom made whisker spoilers as well. Lightened flywheel and new HD clutch assy. Exhaust converted to side exit using SS. headers wrapped and front bulkhead heat shielding added. Brake lines all braided SS, with racing pads, with stock pads available with car. Driveshaft safety hoop. Original windshield AND interchangeable custom made brooklands operational screen. Both windshield assy with seperatly custom made mirrors. Headlamp assembly and mounts also custom made, originals available with car. Rear leather bag trunk with custom rack fits in place of spare tire mount (also available). Aluminum Monza/flip-catch style gas cap. Full weather gear including top, side curtains and Tonneau cover. Also 1/2 side covers to keep the gravel bits out. Mounted fire extinguisher, 6 point drivers harness, comes with old drivers belt as well. Passengers belt stock. small 3rd brake light under the roll bar. brand new Panasport style wheels with new Falken Azenis RT tires with less than 300 miles on them. improved light switch assy, Dashboard has custom made hold handle and GPS mounting bracket, GPS can be included. 12V power supply plug installed as well. Yellow over polished aluminum with Black wings/fenders VERY sharp! all decals are easily removed per buyer. Kept in heated garage. The car ALSO comes with a spare-second z-tech crated engine we never installed. we bought the engine off of e-bay and it was supposed to have been rebuilt but know nothing more of it. There are multiple pictures on this site of the car, however we will post more shortly if asked. Please feel free to tell anyone about the cars sale. We adore this awesome car, and Car is only because of purchased Lotus Elise. Car originally bought for $ 22k, and we have $ 5k in this well sorted out Birkin/Lotus 7. please serious inquiries ONLY. Never titled car comes with all original paperwork. purchased from Dick Brink, history available. Robert Kansa 330-714-3740

Robert, i am putting on the market after the first of Jan, I will be asking 19k for it... and will be patient but negotiable.. However,,,if the correct Elise comes along, i will make a judgement at that time.

Sorry have been gone for a while.. wow this thread really took off! LOL! The idea of a miata in addition to the 7 would be a great choice!..if i had the money for both i would likely do it. However the missing link is our 24 racing sailboat, which has it's own maintenance bucket. Basically, and humbly, (peeking out from my hobbit hole) i cant afford more than 1 sportscar. So given the reality of that choice, and with our love of british machinery, we found what we believe is the best answer for us. KitKat, Yes,,i WAY ovepaid for this Birkin...while it is an awesome lovely car, in retrospect it was not worth that $ with the engine that was in it. However,,,at that time it was one of the best i could find for the money, even with all the faults we have fixed...At that time the zetec's were going for $7k more! However whoever gets the car hopefully will live in a southern climate because they will fall in love with what this car has become. I will be patient selling it. We will probably "officially" put it on the market the first of Jan...right now we are dealing with my son's wedding 900 miles away in 10 days. I agree...that we will very much miss the 7, it has been a VERY special car to us. damn ohio weather...maybe i should just move south.

We did try and get in and out of one with the roof on, and it's not any more difficult than the 7. We dont worry about being graceful. LSD check. we would invest in that eventually if it didnt come with it. whats up with the suspension pickup points? will need to do more research here. We are not looking for the cushy Comfort of a Evora, we dont expect that either. if it's as comfortable-ride quality as our 7 we will love it...except as stated drivable in colder wetter weather. We dont ever expect to drive it in snow or anything, just extend our season. if we can find one for 20k,,,,and sell ours for 18-20k,,we are golden. Our 7 is deffinitly going up for sale...

We just made a big mistake.. we had the privilage of driving a dealership Evora for a extended weekend. Now,,,theres no way we could ever afford one, But the experience showed us something we have not experienced in a long time, driving a sportscar in 35 degrees rainy november and not getting hypothermia. So we are now looking into buying a Lotus Elise.. Which means our beloved Birkin 7 will likely be going up for sale. We absolutly adore the car, but reality is we only are able to drive it for 5 months out of the year in Ohio and 4 of those we are sailing our sailboat most weekends. We need something we can drive for 8 months so we have at least 4 months to enjoy it. And sadly we just simply cant afford to have both. The problem is i dont know how much to ask? From what i have seen the last several months the prices of our cars has plummeted! I paid $ 24 K for mine when we bought it..and now??? whats a crossflow birkin worth? $20k? less? The car has the crossflow and the car has been VERY well sorted out. Won the PIB race weekend and several car shows. Has a optional brooklands screen, new minilite style wheels, lightened flywheel, new correct suspension springs, crank trigger, made a new mount for a saddlebag in place of the spare tire. the rest is pretty much stock Birkin though. We have put a few thousand miles on it but it's very much like new. it comes with a ztech ford focus engine we never installed. Welcoming thoughts before we put it up for sale..

First report on the 615k"s: sticky sticky sticky...the hold the road completely different than the old falkens! Matter of fact...you end up with a WHOLE bunch of the road now in your lap after a drive! I did not get a chance to push them hard yet, but they do seem to work rather well.. AND.. They seem to work really well in standing water! We caught caught in a downpour over the weekend and i found myself going through allot of water at about 60 mph with no problems. However...i DO have new tread...it might change as the tire wears.

Mondo: Did you write you got the falken 615k's?

CMAX, bring the porsche north to Put-In-Bay after Mid ohio! You can check out i just got some ROTA minilite style wheels. They fit perfectly with my new falken 615k's. Although they are likely heavier than panasports, the prices couldnt be beat and they look very vintage-"7" appropriate!

What, that little wiggle? Looked reasonable to me. ((When i was driving the old "big" healey 100-6...it was TERRIBLE. With it's 70/30 weight distribution and welded rear end, It would terribly understeer, right up until it would drastically oversteer. I had thought about putting boat bumpers on it like tugboats do. It felt more like an empty pickup truck on ice with bald tires. it would not only spin it would look like a battling top.)) You did fine!

An update, we are now registered for the event and the 7 will be participating as sponsored by one of the Local Pub's at Put-In-Bay "the Boathouse". The schedule of events is now established and includes dinners, a ralley and an autoxross, as well as laps around the old road course, and laps at speed on what is the proposed new race course being set up on the airport tarmac.

Just got the tires last night...will mount them next week. First impression: Damn, the grooves of the tread are Huge! the groove gap is allot wider than i would expect. This must be a sticky compound, because not much of it actually will touch the road!

A couple new ones...