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No affiliation or other connection with this sale - reposting for benefit of forum readers looking for a car. A Sonic 7 is a modern interpretation of the traditional seven. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Other-Makes-Sonic-7-Hyper-/281032482946?pt=Race_Cars_Not_Street_Legal_&hash=item416ed76082

Karl - you misunderstand...badly. LOG is comprised of delicate creatures that do not camp....like me! :smilielol5: And it will not be at Lime Rock as it is booked up for another event so look for it to be somewhere along the Hudson River NY/CT border away from Lime Rock. No no...you miss the objective.:chillpill: Its a way to get a good track day opportunity at a circuit that is private to club members. We can run rings around all those horrifically slow Lotus cars and wait for them to spin off. No one said we have to bother turning up at the group photo for Elise and Exiges to be pin pricks 30 miles away in the background.:dupe: Also you forget that it give us a chance to reacquaint ourselves with quality people from this forum like Boxologist et al at what promises again to be a very inebriated and social dinner. :cheers:

I am just blown away by the details and quality of this car! I would love to see it in person once day. Are you up in CT?

I just heard in the office from one of my motor-mad colleagues that LOG 33 is to be in western CT at a hotel yet to be finalized on Labor Day weekend 2013. Also the aim is for the track event to be held at Monitcello (hope so - I want to try this track out!) :party: Not sure about the timing as I recall that is the big Fall Weekend event at Lime Rock from memory so it could be crowded. However, not having the third day on a work day is a bonus. Anyone have better knowledge of the plans that can fill in some details here?

Hi Roman - its good to see you finally happy with the car and out there enjoying it. Here is to seeing out there with us in 2013 on a few runs. :cooldude:

Welcome to the forum! The person you need to talk with is 11Budlite (Bruce) as he has been through this and probably even has the bumper bars for you to borrow for inspection. He has not been on here lately so you may want to PM him.

A scratch build always deserves big thunbs up for effort, skill, and a job well done! :cooldude: Interesting choice of engine - dont see many Toyota powered sevens running around. I never really understood why - light, powerful, good power, high revs - are parts a problem? To answer xcarguy, those wheels look suspiciously like Toyota Celica wheels from the early to mid 1980s?

:jester: You know, I am not surprised this is coming from Trenton NJ.....

Hi Glen - Hope you are doing well? As we last talked, I am still working on mic placement. This time it was under the passenger dash. However, you hear the relays cycling and at higher revs (over 5000rpm) you get electrical interference heard with the clicking of the soundtrack. Best spot seems to be next to the throttle bodies - lusty throbbing and no interference. A good quality powered mic is key with the gopros. Running the curbing (or is it kerbing?) is a legacy of my old FIA touring car days from Australia. You had to run the curbs to be fast as it widens the track and provides a nice banked edge at track exit that helps slow any lateral movement from exit. There are curbs I will not go near at Thunderbolt: - Turn 2 exit - unsettling bumps between curb and track surface halfway down the exit curbing to the end. - Turn 4 (non-chicane) - exit curbing is narrow so any use there means a wall right hand side is in your near future. - Turn 12 - apex and exit curbing are offlimits. no more than 1 tire width onto the apex curbing. Otherwise you are saying hello to Mr Wall on the right. Now some cars love curbs and others don't. Tom's seven clearly has a hissy fit anytime it smells a curb. By contrast they do not unsettle my car. Probably because I have an independent rear suspension and sevens are so forgiving. Mike (Kitcat) seems to also be able to use curbs without much issue - obviously a well set up suspension. I suspect Tom's issue is using 10 inches of rubber? Even a porn star does not use that much! For the lines at the chicane, I generally follow Maureen's guidance (yes that fast lady) as she knows something about hustling a Lotus quickly around a circuit and she does get up onto the curbing at points. Paraphrasing her comments on the chicane - it is faster to cut the corner on the curb although it is harder on the car and does unsettle it. However, she would not recommend my lines in the video :rofl: as first apex into the chicane I am way way way too far up onto the curb, unsettled and too fast and early into the second and then to complete the inept driving display i take a narrow entry and a tight early exit on the last corner of the chicane. When you do that and you have run the curb, there are some bumps and hollows on exit - most cars would never find them unless you were out of shape (like me! :ack:) and you happened to plant the throttle heavily - unwise on a cold no grip day. You should walk the track with me next opportunity - I learn a lot from studying it on foot. Since I have had my open kimono moment here, I am interested why Blubarisax does not show his video of his spin on the warm up lap... Or even why Kitcat does not show his chicane spin? Probably will give some pathetic excuse that camera was not turned on... At least I did not make my passenger vomit this time!

7veloce - do you know if the car is staying local or headed to far shores west?

Video now posted at http://www.usa7s.com/vb/showthread.php?t=8144

From this thread: http://www.usa7s.com/vb/showthread.php?t=8130 a group of sevens got together to have fun at New Jersey Motorsport Park (NJMP) Thunderbolt circuit at a November Drivers Club Member day - last one for the season sadly. Apart from me, participants from this forum were: - Yellowss7 (Tom) - Blubarisax (Karl) - Kitcat (Mike) - JBH (Jeff and his partner Mary) - Jvbtte (Jack) - S1Steve (Steve) It was very cold - very difficult to get heat in the tires and lap times were quite slow unless you had slicks like Tom, Karl and Mike.... My spin was partially caused by tires but more so by the doofus behind the wheel planting his right foot just at the point where there are bumps on corner exit. Here is a short video of the highlights: If you just want to see continuous laps then look at this video of the 3rd session on Saturday of me.

I think he is getting at you have a 1996 Caterham titled as a 1967 Lotus 7. Some states do insist that you title a car as it is and some states make you title it as the year and car it replicates - it depends on the state you have to deal with. For this car, which I know its prior history, the current NY title description matches its former state of title which in 1996 when first titled followed the year and car it replicated convention. In this case it makes no difference as it is pretty easy to correct when you transfer title. Also, as it is titled right now it makes it easier to title in some states where they do not accept kit cars (unless fitted with air bags, original fuel tanks and emission equipment from donor car, crash tested bumpers, etc). With my battle scars from titling sevens in various states I would not be worrying a single bit about the current NY title description on this car.

I have plenty of Mary in my videos - for a relative newbie she is damn quick! Very impressive to watch. Watch out Jeff (JBH) - she will be chasing you down next!

Hi Glen! :seeya: Good to see you here. When are we going to get you in a seven?

Welcome to the forum Wayne. For Birkin parts I would start with Dick Brink a phone call. He is the official Birkin USA importer and a really nice guy. His website and contact details are here: http://www.texasmotorworks7.com/

Here is some video of the day. First is one of me following Martin (Lotus 7 Club member "Mav" on Blatchat). It gives you a good idea of the layout, elevation changes and above all, how impressive Mav is at pedalling a 140hp Caterham SV around the circuit loaded with him and Mrs Mav. This is not a video for anyone who expects me to be on the ragged edge doing a qualifying lap (after all I want Bookatrack to have me back!). The second short video comes from when my rent a seven was turned into a test bed for a vbox hire business being started this month. Colin at Video & Data Capture was a top guy to meet and I learned a lot about the finer points of data logging and got some excellent ideas. I really hope his business takes off. Anyway, here I am following an Aston Martin DBR1 (a very authentic and expensive replica) being enthusiastically pedalled. The owner said there was no grip - pretty obvious from some of the steering angles witnessed.

Following on from this thread here where I rented a seven for a track day at Oulton Park UK: http://www.usa7s.com/vb/showthread.php?t=8089 Here is some video of the day. First is one of me following Martin (Lotus 7 Club member "Mav" on Blatchat). It gives you a good idea of the layout, elevation changes and above all, how impressive Mav is at pedalling a 140hp Caterham SV around the circuit loaded with him and Mrs Mav. This is not a video for anyone who expects me to be on the ragged edge doing a qualifying lap (after all I want Bookatrack to have me back!). The second short video comes from when my rent a seven was turned into a test bed for a vbox hire business being started this month. Colin at Video & Data Capture was a top guy to meet and I learned a lot about the finer points of logging. Anyway, here I am following an Aston Martin DBR1 (a very authentic and expensive replica) being enthusiastically pedalled. The owner said there was no grip - pretty obvious from some of the steering angles witnessed.

I have the video finished - no surprise but internet connections in Indonesia do not allow you to upload videos! :banghead: Plenty of my "oops" moments included. Absolutely nothing of Kitcat in any video. Because he never needed to warm his tires as much as mine, he was long gone by the time I had some grip! :svengo:

I suspect he is right. Your house will be on the official flood plain maps and as a result gound level cover is voided. Meanwhile, my building right next to the Hudson River is on the flood plain but because the ground floor is an empty basement designed to flood as a former riverside warehouse, the next level up of apartments and lobby is covered. Welcome to the intricacies and silliness of the insurance world. I assume you have already worked with your regular home policy insurer to see what of the shortfall they pick up? Probably none but it is worth trying... My question looking forward - If the waters got to the second floor then what coverage have you got? Structure and contents? What is subject to the statutory $250k policy limit? Have you read your policy in detail yet? (Do you want me to?) Even better find a really good insurance broker to help you work out the details of where and where not you are covered. Right now you are in the post-catastrophe insurance dead zone but you want to be ready to move to up your insurance cover if you can the moment the insurance market comes on line.

Excuse me, but cold tires and my forgetting to button my coat had nothing to do with me turning my Caterham into a Caterpillar dozer by shifting a ton of dirt on the left side of the back straight. And I am pretty sure Kitcat's tires and coat did not play a role in him digging up the right side of the back straight in his John Deere tractor! However, I do believe cold tires played a role in Blubarisax looping his car at the entry to the Jersey Devil on the "warm up" lap! oops! :blush: But all credit goes to JBH for his remarkable composure and grace when his partner tried his "new" Boxster out on the track and christened it with a credible half spin and reverse pike into a wall! (they will buff out!). We will keep a spot open for you Martin next year! Being the closest to the track is a huge advantage for you. Video is lined up for editing on my 19 hour non-stop flight to Singapore in 3 hours time.

Lovely car in a great setting - where were you when you took this photo? I think you will like the smaller headlights - having had both I much prefer the smaller lower set ones.

Can someone in CA please slap Martin silly for me.....just a little...:jester: The sight that is remarkable for me is being able to see clear across 100 feet of building (if I crouch down) as the bottom 3 feet on the ground floor of my building has been cleared of dry wall, cabinets, furniture, etc as all that wet stuff was removed.

Oops! I forgot the daylight savings change.... sorry! I was concerned for you Tom as much as you would prefer not! :leaving:

This is great news - a car that finally goes as promised. Maybe we need to get you out at the june 2013 track days at NJMP? I for one am interested to see how your car performs in a more unrestrained environment!