theDreamer

So many nice cars it is hard to pick just one. I bet most will go over market. P.S. Very disappointed that there are no photos of the engines and drive trains (underside) for the majority of the cars. Also, cars that are stated as running when stored were not brought up to at least start and idle condition.

Don't you just hate when this happens! I know it has happen to me and I'll be danged if I know what I did wrong, if anything.

Mmmmm... Mandalorian you quote, Words wise these are!

Just listed on Bat at "No Reserve"! https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2001-caterham-superlite-4/

Heater in a Seven? In Ontario I find it is a "Must Have!" as it was for all sports cars. As to driving in bad weather well, my father rode motorcycles (with a side car and chains) through winters when he didn’t have a car. I have too but without the side car in the snow and it was only for fun. I did have to ride my little dual sport Kawi to and from work in the cold, damp and some flurries. It was the very late fall early winter the first time. Then again in the very late winter early spring when we had rear stub axles break on our Europa. You see I drove my Europa year round for a several years. Both my older brothers drove their Sprites and Midgets year round as they and my father did with their Corvairs. Which like my VW bug all are heated via ducts around the cylinders. I used the heater in my Seven on the drive home from picking it up. I couldn’t use the hood because the car came with no hood sticks. It was a bright and sunny 6c. My vintage Caterham jacket worked great. I did keep my left hand in my pocket only grabbing the wheel with it when needed like reaching down to put my right hand in front of heater vents. I’m bound and determined to put double the miles on our seven this year so I expect the heater will get more use again this year. With the roof up and doors on it actually does not a bad job of keeping the cockpit cozy and dry. I’m sooo glad we had a heater when driving in the pouring rain because it does take the edge off the dampness.

If you want an OEM with the electric filaments contact one of the US dealers. I’m sure if they do not have one in stock that they could get one. Might have to wait until they have a shipment coming in and of course it will cost.

@Reiver my car is all original as ordered form the factory. The custom two-tone grey “S” leather interior was 2064.29. The special leather boot cover was 150.00. The roll over bar’s custom padded leather cover was 85.00 and the spare tire cover was 75.00. This is taken from the 1993 Caterham invoice. I can’t see where it specifies the currency so these values may be in Pounds Sterling. I shudder to think how much a good leather man would charge to replicate this interior at today’s prices. Good luck with the half hood. Looking forward to seeing it on your car.

Read my report about losing and then fixing the clutch cable connection to the clutch arm on our way to a car show. https://usa7s.net/ips/topic/15051-first-breakdown-going-to-a-british-car-show/

Our car has a leather covered padded roll bar as can be seen in the photos. The standard hood clears the padding with no issues. The half hoods use the roll bar not a hood stick so as stated above it should work. You may have to do some tweaking but as long as you get the correct size for your roll bar it should work. You want to measure from the front of the windscreen to rear of the roll bar. The distance from rear seam to inside front lip of the half hood should be the same + or - a 1/4" or so. Several of us with the older vertical style roll bars have had problems because the hoods shipped have been too sort being made for the newer, angled forward roll bar. (About 4 inches different give or take.)

@JohnCh, Your concern over the style of 7 used seems odd to me. Looking at the original 7-7-7 event logo I’d say that ship has sailed. The 7 with the dragon tail clearly is based on that used by Caterham. Hell, how many none Caterham owners have placed a similar styled 7 in the nose of their none Caterham cars? I’ve been involved with companies and clubs during logo creation or changeover. There are some basic dos and don’ts. Simple and clean where less is more is the best approach. As you state, think about how hard it would be for stitching or iron on transfers for T’s and caps. As far as colours go you don’t need to use the red white and blue theme as that is made clear by clubs name. The 20th anniversary is called China. The gem stone is Emerald and the colours are green and/or yellow depending on which site you read. (Hmmm, isn’t that interesting…) I’m no graphic wiz so I’ve not done a visual yet. My idea is similar to many shown however; where mine differs is having the last part of the “A” of the USA and the little “s” flow slightly over the larger 7. I’d stay away from the car image. Other clubs, most notably the UK’s Caterham and Lotus 7 Club and the Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs to name two have used it for decades. It’ll be hard to match those. However, if you really what the 7 car outline then go with the one that has the least amount of detail. I’d also raise it up into the USA more. You might think about using the “flip image colour” trick I used on my Moto Star helmet back in the 70’s. I attached images showing how used the divide between two colours to highlight my name. The rear image of the helmet is included because I know you guys would ask to see it.

Nah mate, it's a no-name knock off. The proper NOS ones on new leather that MV8 linked to are GBP 45.00 before shipping. I got all four of these shipped to my door for less. Now if someone would like to gift me a proper vintage key ring with fob I'd not turn it down. However, I think what I received is FOBulous, simply FOBulous!

Some images like the windscreen were added after the fact.

So, I bit the bullet and I ordered key rings off of eBay UK. The one I wanted was GPB15.00 but there was only one left. (see image) I quickly found another that looked smaller and the leather looked more like vinyl in the photo. Funny, the photos had the same background image. I think it was only GBP 5.99 so I ordered one of those as well. I now had two slightly different Caterham 7 key rings on order. Over the following weeks I received two identical messages from the same person saying that they’d been away and would get right on my order. Almost two weeks passed before the first package arrived. Based on the photo it was the “last One”. It looked close to the photo in the ad. The difference being the chrome is raised above the colours and I thought it would be all smooth like the nose badge. A couple of days later I had a notice from eBay UK to rate my experience. The odd thing was it was for the other key ring order. So I waited to reply. Over a week goes by and I finally received the second package. To my great surprise not only are there three key rings but they are exactly the same as the first one. Again eBay UK asked for my feedback so I wrote my little story. I explained my bewilderment at ordering the last one of one type and another one that looked different from another ad. Then, getting the exact same message from the same person that they were late in getting my order out. Now these Feed Back forms are to two different people but it seems that the items are all coming from the same shop. I got a reply from some guy that he’d look into it but didn’t understand how I ended up with three key rings. I wrote him back that I actually received four and not to send anymore. So I have two to use and two set aside. Well, you just never know when you might need a Caterham Key Fob, eh!

Early one morning just after a huge snow fall we had to pick up some meds from the pharmacy. Only the main roads had been plowed and the parking lot had only seen a couple of cars. I knew where the parking spots where so when I pulled in I did a wide turn and then planted my foot hard on the accelerator to get the wife’s Crosstrek into a nice controlled, sweeping drift. The vehicle came to rest perfectly situated in the first spot in the row. No sooner had the vehicle come to a stop and WHACK! The wife hauled off and hit me, hard, in the shoulder and started yelling at me. What did I do wrong?

Fejar 7 in Montreal Quebec. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1588416435882505/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3Aa2e76c97-5fdc-4021-8eff-a32645e9e329&__tn__=!%3AD