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DLW

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  • Biography
    Lifelong car guy recently bitten by the Lotus-replica bug
  • Location
    Pacific Northwest
  • Interests
    Old cars, art photography, secondhand stores, gardening
  • Occupation
    Auto wrecking
  1. Cool. :cheers:
  2. How many of you have a food truck (such as a taqueria or sandwich shop on wheels) on the premises of the local junkyard, and what's the food like? A lot of Se7en and handcrafted car people, particularly Locost builders and builders of one-offs like the Midlana, frequent the junkyard for parts, and one member I know of for sure works at one. (you're reading his thread right now.) At the junkyard I work at, there is a really good taqueria truck in the parking lot, favored by both customers and employees. I avoid packing my own lunch whenever possible, since the food is excellent and fairly priced.
  3. Woo-hoo! The Women's Christian Temperance Union! :party: *takes a sip of Guinness for each woman in the photo* I actually knew an old bartender whose mother took him to WCTU meetings in the 1920s and early 30s, he told stories of their rhetoric and ideologies to anyone in the bar who'd listen.
  4. I nominated the first-gen Lotus Elise, it was absolutely beautiful, even more so than the current model. But no Lotus body styles look better than the Six, Seven and Eleven to me.
  5. When I finally build my Se7en, I plan on using thin grooved rubber matting bonded to the floorpan. No carpet for me, I don't even like it in my house or my daily-driver, but am stuck with it as far as the house goes since I'm renting. At least rubber mats are readily available for my daily!
  6. Any ideas on running a dry sump on an Alfa Romeo-engined Se7en? (four-cylinder or V6)
  7. I inhabit a large automobile-dismantling shop from 7am-3pm Monday through Thursday, but as for a space to build a Se7en, I have a very small one-car garage with a good-sized driveway, space for 3 normal cars side-by-side out front, and have access to a 10-foot metal carport that could easily be tarped all around for privacy. I would have to dispose of all donor cars quickly due to neighborhood regulations, but considering where I work, that wouldn't be an issue if I had a title or a bill of sale.
  8. That is a problem... looking again at the ad and closer at the car, it seems as though this is a Locost made with a few Caterham parts, if even that, and that the sellers may be trying to rook buyers. If you were to take this to a Caterham club meet or even call it a Caterham at a car show, you'd get laughed out of the show at best or banned from further meets/shows at worst.
  9. DLW

    Lohan

    Now that's something, when a newbie knows something an admin doesn't!
  10. DLW

    Lohan

    Not a follower of Hollywood, but I found it absurd that Twizzlers licorice became a must-have snack food after word got out that Lindsay Lohan ate them in jail. My local soft-rock radio station even gave away a 5-pound box of them recently.
  11. Nice, and stuff like a normal windshield, tonneau and weather gear can be made easily if one so chooses, but why put a teak dashboard in a Se7en? I think those belong in Jaguar SS100 and MGTD replicas and not Se7ens.
  12. Hello, Dino... welcome to USA7s.
  13. No thanks, a Westfield SEight, supercharged Brunton Stalker or a Hartley H1 V8-powered Locost will do it for me.
  14. 7 HEAVN SE7EN K8RHAM LITENSS (Lightness) ADLTNS (referring to "Add lightness")
  15. Thanks... but I don't even have the frame yet, and I may take you up on your offer if/when I build a frame or modify an existing one.
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