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I find that the smug Porsche people who correct people who say porsh are almost-always not saying the name correctly themselves. This cracks me up. I personally don't give a fig how anyone pronounces it, but if you are going to demonstrate it you ought do more than add an "ah". I usually say my Porsche is pronounced "KAYman" because I am a mid-engine snob. According to the Porsche company, the name does not have a hard rhotic R.

I have one Tillett seat and another on order. I find the Caterham 6-points a real pain to use. The pull-up lap adjusters argue with the side ports in the Tillett seat. I just ordered and received two sets of Lifeline harnesses with an FIA date of 2031. The adjusters on the shoulders are pull-downs. The adjusters on the lap belt are pull-down and look like they will not interfere with the Tillett seats. These adjusters are built directly into the tabs that connect to the rotary buckle.

That's chicken COOP. The Chicken Coupe' was the transportation of Chickenman. Yes, I am old-enough to remember the goofy syndicated series of radio spots in the 1960s.

Not to mention a button release instead of a rotary release.

All three of my Sevens are illegal in CT. Moto-Lita, Momo, and "Momo-type?", they are all about 12" OD.

I thought about that later when I realized I have used the same phrase for the same reason!

I am open to suggestions.

I have been looking at the new fuel tank I have to put into 74PHIL to fix fuel-flow problems. Looking at the placement of the fittings on the tank compared to the old one, it looks like I need to get a filler setup like the one on my CSR. The pipe on the 1991 S3 is halfway between the the fore and aft edges of the tank. The new one is much closer to the back of the tank. Are the "new style" fillers on the S3, SV and CSR all the same? Can I buy this stuff in the USA? Caterham clobbered me for shipping this last time I got something.

I seem to racall that the British cars I had with drum brakes that I needed a square socket to properly adjust them. Bought a special little rachet wrench. Have not used it in years.

Not the case with my first Caterham. My 1979 car had a crossflow 1600. The dry sump looked like an inverted straight-ridge roofline. It stayed WAY above the bottom of the bellhousing.

Does not bother me at all. As far as the CSR goes, all the soft goods I'd want to add would be a Bimini that attaches to the roll cage. I don't have a windshield/windscreen and rollbar setup for the half-hoods that are available. If i did, I'd rather have a full hood with a zip-open backlight like I have for my S3-body Caterham.

You need to tighten your Bimini.

This is Saturday at the same location as Sunday. But the event was different. A cross between a regular autocross and a track day. Using the roadways on the site without pylon slaloms and chicanes. The fact that it was run like an autocross and not a trackday meant that despite the higher speeds, there was still no opportunity to heat the tires. In the afternoon, I did three runs in close succession, and the tires were essentially ambient temperature. Other folks were spraying their tires to cool them. Just in case you are wondering about the lump in the boot cover, and the general lack of the drum-like tautness you expect from a Caterham boot cover: I think the car originally had the hood sticks, whether or not it ever had a hood. With the poppers in the normal positions and no hood sticks to hold up the edges, the boot cover fits rather loosely. In a way, that's alright, because I think the backstays for the roll cage cross the plane of the top of the body rather aft of where the regular roll bars' backstays would. Oh, the lump. That's a full-face helmet I left in there for a short while. I believe it would not have fit there if the cover were stretched in the ordinary way. I do have one popper to replace, and I have a supply.

I have never seen a defroster that worked from the OUTside of the glass, but you never know. Yes, I know I have electrical wires INside my Caterham windscreen.

While it may solve the usual problems with gas-station fill of sevens, access TO it might be weird. Let's hear from Superperformance drivers.

I must say that fuel filler looks like trouble.

I would like to see this statement fleshed out a little, as I really don't understand what it means.

BAT seems to have a category "Lotus Seven & Seven Replica". Perhaps the Book of Face should jump on that bandwagon.

My father had a 1932 Auburn cabriolet until my grandmother made him sell it (to Ralph dePalma) when Roosevelt sent his naval reserve unit to Pearl Harbor aboard WARD. That car had wood artillery wheels, double sidemounts with mirrors like this Duesenberg, a rumbleseat, and a golf door. I finally made it to the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg museum. I found features of his Auburn on several cars, but could not find one car that had all of them. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pethier/albums/72177720328947908 Around 1970 I met racer and collector Bob Youngdahl, who told me that he had been searching for my father's Auburn. The most recent trace he found was in West Saint Paul in 1965. I have no idea if the car still exists.

CSR 260 at today's MAC autocross. It is obvious that I have not gotten around to washing the entire car. I did wash the hood (bonnet) before applying the numbers and class letters. The wide photo is the view from my air-conditioned truck. It was 100 degrees F at the event. I was happy to have the Soft Bits For Sevens "Storm Cap" to keep the sun off the seat. In my assigned grid, I did not have a choice on the direction the car would face. While I was seated in the CSR waiting for my runs, I would certainly have appreciated a Bimini on the cage. 116 entrants recorded scores. There were two Lotus Elise cars. Heidi's Elise is returning to her grid spot after a run. I had the only Seven at the autocross. I had lots of fun despite the weather. I also gained further evidence that Toyo 888s are terrible tires for autocrossing with a light car.

well. that didn't work

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