Photo of your car you took today

[pethier]

5 hours ago, theDreamer said:

The Green Elise' owners name is Eric. He also has a Lotus Cortina and an Elan. However, his son drives the Elise and does track days and some competitions and his name is Rod or Rob. Sorry, my poor hearing is only surpassed by my increasing lose of short term memory. Sound like someone you know or have met?

 

My wife took the rainbow photo at the end of the day. It was a short but heavy shower after a picture perfect brisk spring day on Ontario.

 

I've attached anther photo of the Elise.

 

 

 

Here is the car at the LOG39 track day.  Do not know which of them is at the wheel.

 

I met Rob at LOG33.  More on that in the next post.

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by pethier

[pethier]

26 minutes ago, pethier said:

 

 

 

Here is the car at the LOG39 track day.  Do not know which of them is at the wheel.

 

I met Rob at LOG33.  More on that in the next post.

 

 

The center plaque is for finishing second out of the 8 entrants in Super Stock at the Glen Region Sports Car Club of America Solo event.  The Elmira College Domes are the buildings on the grounds of an athletic facility near the town of Horseheads New York.  Glen Region honored the presence of the Lotus Owners Gathering competitors in the naming of the autocross:  Hethel, Norwich, Norfolk, England is the town where Lotus cars are made.

Glen Region autocross results:
<a href="http://www.glen-scca.org/Solo/2013/Results20130804.asp" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.glen-scca.org/Solo/2013/Results20130804.asp</a>
PAX results:
<a href="http://www.glen-scca.org/Solo/2013/PAX20130804.asp" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.glen-scca.org/Solo/2013/PAX20130804.asp</a>

The mug and the hat combined are the trophy for finishing second in class in the LOG33 scoring for the autocross.  The mugs were also used for the Concours, so the other side of the mug says "MY LOTUS IS PRETTIER THAN YOURS".  Not really the case for me.

I had not talked with Doc Bundy since the race in the streets of Minneapolis I covered some years back.  I don't ask people for autographs, but someone (Brian V?) asked Doc to sign his hat and I figured "why not".

I had the third-fastest time of the 60 cars entered. (I really don't count shifter-karts as cars.) an SM BMW snuck in-between Rob and me in our stock Elise cars.  In the LOG33 results, Rob had FTD and I was second.

 

Rob and Eric had brought both cars to LOG33.  For the autocross, Rob drove the Elise.  Eric drove the Lotus Cortina.  Rob and Eric were in different classes in both the SCCA classing and the LOG classing.

 

Someone at the event told me that Eric B and his wife are past Canadian Autoslalom Champions.  

 

Rob riding shotgun with Eric at that 2013 event:

 

 

 

The Lotus Cortina was not set up for autocrossing.  Beautiful historic car.  

 

Of course, Rob beat me again at LOG39 in 2019.  Rob had designed the course on a smallish parking lot at Thompson Speedway (site of the first-ever SCCA driving event).  The course looked like a Japanese gymkhana. At least I got to join the general laughter when Rob got lost while trying to show us that it was easy to follow.