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Back on Trump-ic. He came out advocating that the pubs vote to release the Epstein files.

Could it be related to the 'bucket-ness' (for lack of a better term) of the seat? Maybe try to lift your butt somehow, seat angle maybe, or a cushion, as an experiment. Also, do you actually pee a lot after the drive, or do you just feel like you have to pee?

A bladder might be bedder, Or it might be badder. Why does it madder.

Err "tariffs". /pedant

Is that the road in the Poconos? US 6 I think?

I think we can all agree that, whatever it IS, it IS NOT a 1964 S2 and never was. I'm going to go with it being an early-ish Caterham with a Franken-yotaed drivetrain. Those rear trailing arms are, uhh, interesting, as are the front swaybar links. Speaking of which I think the front suspension has been given the wide track treatment. There are rose joints everywhere. The RH steering rack boot is still in shambles. The front wheels may have been redrilled for a different bolt circle. Gauges are a mix of this and that. The dash panel might be a completely replaced panel. The turn signals occupy two of those toggles? I'd honestly be afraid of this car.

I ended up refusing shipment of the item I ordered, due to not being able to sort out the incorrect tariff levies. At this point in time I have not heard back from UPS on my dispute submission. I also have no idea whether they "returned to sender" or whether the poor plastic thingie is sitting forlornly on some shelf 10 miles away from my house. Until I have some closure on that, I'm out the cost of the part + shipping. "Debacle" is the word that comes to mind.

Hey, I have one of those...

Does anyone know whether pre-PVC SU carbs were jetted differently? Also I'd be curious to know which side of the butterfly that pipe exits on in the carb throat. My thought is that those carbs may work okay on a pre-PVC engine but may need rejetting. I guess I should say re-needling in the case of SU's...

Sold.

I didn't hear anything so I'll post pictures here. The black one was on my Caterham which may help explain its condition. It doesn't leak I promise. I removed it to go to a fabricated unit, which I promptly punched a proper hole in. Now the car is dry sumped. The blue one may have been from an Elan, it was in with a pile of parts I got all at once from a guy who had Elans and the Caterham. Black sump Blue sump.

It's on FaceBook now. Did 1969 cars have the rectangular taillights? https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1H9JToGEGF/

Not an entire car, but still interesting. Lotus twincam engine on BaT. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/engine-192/

Oh no! I have that exact catch can unused, for sale. If you can take that out of the order it would save you the tariff and then some…

After 20 years of being on call 24x7x365 for outages that tended to occur in the wee hours, I can relate.

I may have one. Shipping from PA may be a bit of a downer though... ...I'll PM you some pics if that's okay.

I find it -- ironic? hilarious? ah, that's it, hilariously ironic -- that they put camouflage wrap on the car.

(Adding to the pedantic wave) "right-hand drive" in my experience refers to which side of the vehicle contains a steering wheel. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/right-hand_drive At this point I would love for someone to answer a simple question: is this kit usable in the United States?

Same part number for each -- that could explain a lot!

I had the same experience a year ago at a Mercedes Benz dealership. I needed a breaker bar and a 3-foot piece of pipe to loosen the lug bolts.

I believe these came with the car originally. It wears Panasports now. Tires have been removed so at this point it is a stack of nekkid wheels.

I'd like to hear more about the trailer. I sent you a direct message.

I believe that's the latest slimmed-down version of the flux capacitor.

That's an interesting set of data. Do you have a scanner? It could be digitized and added to the information kept on this site.