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Congratulations on your new car purchase and your return to the homeland. When you go to Stuttgart to pick up your new Benz, I highly recommend that you consider allocating a couple of days in Stuttgart if you can accomodate it. Both the MB and Porsche museums are worth spending the better part of a day at each one to truly experience. I can't say enough about how nice both of these museums are. The Hilton Garden Inn Stuttgart Neckar Park is within easy walking distance of the MB Museum. And the Porsche Museum is only about a 10 minute drive from there. The Hilton is also very convenient to tram access to downtown. A glimpse of the interior of the MB Museum: And a peek at the Porsche Museum: If you find museums to be of interest I can recommend several more that are history and/or transport related in Germany that are definitely worth the time and trouble to visit before you return Stateside. Welcome home in advance.

If you're referring to the cute little red fastback coupe at the bottom of post #7 I'd guess that the engine is a BMC "A" Series as I'm pretty sure it's not a Griffith, but rather an Austin Healey Sprite (or maybe even an MG Midget?) fitted with a Sebring (replica or real?) fastback roof and nose. Like this one: http://www.sebringsprite.com/images/LewMcAllanFastback001L.jpg

Hi Skip; Welcome aboard. There are several CA residents here and quite a few Stalker owners who may be able to help answer your questions. I can't be of any assistance on this topic as my car is an actual '62 Lotus so registration was a pretty straight forward used car ID inspection for me. However I suggest that you consider checking out the California Caterham Club forum in addition to this xlnt group. While it is a pretty small group, being pretty much California focused, there is a lot of SB100 registration experience over there. Good luck with your acquisition and a successful and uneventful registration. Regards, Ron

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A few that I've visited and/or driven:

As mentioned above, a cherry picker is a very useful device for making such a task a one man job:

The annual Jim Clark Revival will again be held this weekend at the Hockenheimring:

On my '62 Series 2 car the fuel pickup is simply a tube that runs down to the bottom of the tank. My car had sat unused in a garage for 30+ years when I bought it. The fuel in the tank had turned to varnish. It was possible to clean out the bottom of the tank by letting it soak with acetone for several days. However the pickup tube was completely blocked and not easily removed from the tank. So I tried a homemade small scale version of a roto-rooter attached to my cordless drill. The roto-rooter was made with three strands of 0.030" safety wire that I twisted together with the drill leaving the last couple of inches free to act as scrubbers/cutters when the drill was spinning. Once I got about an inch of the tube cleared I was able to gradually feed the rest down and through the pickup tube, taking care to carefully use my free hand to guide the spinning wires so as to keep them from whipping around: http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4127/4969737823_68019a3fc5_b.jpg http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4085/4970355894_ee0d903b7c_b.jpg http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4084/4969742991_0fa7117f73_b.jpg Once I was able to feed the "pipe cleaner" all the way through the pickup tube I then ran it up and down the entire length of the tube for about 5 minutes. The pickup was free and clear and good as new at that point. Please note that the fuel tank pickup on my old Series 2 is simply a pipe that runs down to within about 1/4" of the bottom of the tank. There is no end fitting or filter on the bottom end of the pickup tube that might not be able to be cleared by the pipe cleaner. So if your pickup tube is a similar configuration this approach may work for you as well.

Concur.

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Correct, the horn button is simply a make or break switch. I think that you've got this pretty close. In my experience, most cars run a ground wire to the horn button for exactly the reasons you have listed. FYI, for similar reasons, the door switches for the dome light(s) in most cars also use the ground connection to operate the overhead lamp(s).

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These aren't my cars, but they are badges on various Sevens that I've seen: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3729/12702330535_bf9ed1779c_b.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/7080702741_1a087a2cd7_b.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7096/7080703837_78d8137988_b.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5343/6934628096_e7b36228b8_b.jpg

I have three sons. These ads remind me of some of the simple things that I have tried to teach them over the years in an effort to save them some future pain and learn from my mistakes. For instance: If they are out at a restaurant with a lady and he is in a situation to order drinks while she is away from the table, when the server asks if the drink should be diet or regular, the answer is never "diet".

The early years: http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1130/5112023587_afb6a4f2d2_b.jpg

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Very cool. Are those Cosmic alloy wheels? Where are you located in SoCal?

While not an assembly manual, you might want to consider another source. This book is a very good reference for live axle Sevens and covers early Caterhams: Lotus Seven: Preparation, Restoration and Maintenance by Tony Weale. A bit on the expensive side but a very valuable resource. If you're patient used copies come up on Ebay UK regularly, sometimes for reasonable prices. Just a thought.

Hi Andy; Great to see you here. Welcome aboard!

I think the expression on the face of the individual in the right seat is the most significant part of the picture.

I grew up in southwestern Michigan. In the winter the local TV weather (out of South Bend, IN) would regularly report the temperature from Anchorage, Alaska. It was often quite a bit warmer (10-15 degrees) there than at home. This always caused quite a bit of consternation (well before the concept of global warming took hold) for those who didn't realize that Anchorage is a sea port. As a result the ocean water moderates the temperature in that city to a large degree.

:iagree: Concur. My '62 is RHD and really doesn't pose a problem for me. About the only thing that I really notice is that the mail boxes are much closer to me on country roads.

Here's a picture of an S3 SS Lotus Twin Cam circa 1969 of '70 that I found on the Lotus Seven Register site: http://www.lotus7register.co.uk/images/l7s3pix/SS4.jpg Note the hose below the rear carburetor in the picture. The one connected to the metal tube near the engine block and the bottom right hand corner of the air cleaner. It is the PCV line. By connecting the PCV valve outlet to the air cleaner (ported into the "clean" air side of the filter) you have found your source of vacuum. You don't want to connect to the intake manifold proper for a vacuum source for PCV as that would be downstream of the carb butterflies and would thus cause your fuel/air mixture to be lean on whichever cylinder (or cylinders) you tapped into.