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Your Caterham was the only real car there. All the rest were reproductions.

Ya, At that age I borrowed my mom's 72 Gremlin until I got a real job and dad "sold" me his 70 Fury III.

There was a group buy of reproduction center caps a few years ago. They look pretty good and cost something less than $200 each. I think that JD on the lotus@se7ens.net list was the coordinator. If you have a worthy cause and money someone would probably part with a "spare".

Audi Urban Concept rendered Audi didn't release any additional information the on the Audi Urban Concept today, but it did let loose a photo rendering album of the e-tron-branded concept in coupe and roadster forms that we'll soon get to know in Frankfurt. http://www.autoblog.com/2011/08/29/audi-urban-concept-rendered/ Interest, ugly, a bit of 7 like in but not in the spirt.

Our power is back. Not only that but the other side of the street is dark. We get to gloat as it is usually the other way around.

The power went off again. It failed about midnight on Saturday. Cable is back up but not power. Not much damage in this part of Virginia and only one tragic death. A neighbor's house was condemed due to a tree through the roof. $5,000 to remove the tree.

The power is back on at our place in Newport News VA. There is still rain and wind but nothing like our last visit by a hurricane.

The Seven is in the garage. The trailer is tied down. We are just waiting for the rain to start and the wind to pick up. I hope the neighbor's dead tree doesn't come down on anything. It was 11 days without power last time.

A bunch of the cars were borrowed from Birmingham folks. Alain de Cadenet was at the Birmingham LOG. My wife thought he was a hoot. He definately likes the women.

Sorry to hear that you have to part with these cars. It was fun to follow your progress on the Birkin. All the best to you.

The car looks good. What is the aluminum box/cover over the brake and clutch linkage?

Same here. P&WA E. Hartford, firefighter > manufacturing engineering > engineering.

I need a big loto hit!

Wow, I've never heard of such a thing. Could you please take some measurments and a few pictures. I would love to see it. I'm sure JD would give the pictures a place of honor on http://www.simplesevens.com It seems odd but airliners still use the stick method for determining fuel load.

You have me confused. I think I know where I can rent long leggy hotties to bang but where can I rent a kid to teach me the inside grass line?

A good rider. Very interesting compared to the "bikers" I see duck walking their Harley at intersections.

Your ridiculously cool Caterham Seven wallpaper is here Matt Hardigree —The Caterham Seven is close to the least amount of car you can buy, and is therefore in many ways it's the most amount of car you can buy. The 1600-px version is here and the giganto-desktop version is on our Facebook page (no, you don't have to "like" our Facebook page or even sign in to the service. It's right there in the "photos" section on the left). Have a photo to contribute? Email us at tips at Jalopnik dot com, just make sure you have the rights to share it. http://jalopnik.com/5823144/your-ridiculously-cool-caterham-seven-wallpaper-is-here

Free range. Better than speed bumps for slowing down traffic.

Actually I think you missed it. Auto-x has lost some of its appeal as it no longer is a grass roots sport. Sure it is supposed to be competitive but... Local auto-x now seems to be practice for national events. National level preparation (or regional level preparation) at local events seems wrong. It certainly discourages beginners and mid level competitors. Maybe local events need to class the national and regional level cars/drivers in a separate handicapped category. If they were true sportsmen rather than trophy hounds they could run for fun and not be scored at local events. Two stories. One of my friends gave up competitive pistol shooting when he went to the the Virginia state championships one year. He had the top score through most of the 2 day event. When the USMC national shooting team showed up he quickly fell down the ranking. He now refuses to shoot against professionals, especially those who are paid with his tax dollars. At the other extreme one acquaintance of mine used to dominate the model airplane control line event - Carrier. He would often go to contests in order to practice and refuse to be scored, instead he would perform demonstrations.

I would like to ditche the pickup as a daily driver and switch to an early body style Miata.

It seems to be a good trip and great adventure so far. Keep it up and have fun.

More like 30-40 seconds at many venues. At my previous auto-x I believe that I was the slowest or slowest non-novice. I had 44 - 47 second runs. The FTD was in the 32 - 33 second range.

Entered my 1958 Seven in the local SCCA auto-x last weekend. I entered it in CS street tire. Even if I were a good driver there isn't much chance of placing high. I figure if I can be 10 to 12 seconds slower than FTD on a 30-40 second course I am doing well. Dealing with the SCCA is about the most political thing most car enthuasiasts ever do. They seem to hate dealing with Lotus cars. They are too few cars and too many poorly documented varients and too fast. Also Lotus doesn't seem to support them. On the other hand they love Porsche with their Germanic mania for standardization and documentation coupled with their support of the club.

We are in the flight pattern here in Newport News. We need to get together.

Walk the Camino de Satniago in northern Spain.