Catskills NY Drive with the Lotus Enthusiasts Organization of NY & NJ

[Croc]

I joined the LEO Group's Spirited drive in the Catskills today. I have been on their drives before and found them a great bunch of people. Today saw the usual Exige and Elise's but also had a smattering of V8 Esprits (lovely look and sound), some beautiful Elans and a Europa or two.

 

We started in Pine Bush NY and weaved our way around the Catskils for 80 miles ending up at the Mountain Brauhaus in Gardiner NY. It was a great routing with lots of fast uphills, stunning views from mountain tops and nice tight twisties through valley floors. I will be making a note of the roads we went on as it was one of the best drives around the NY region that I have come across.

 

There was this white Europa which had a glorious engine soundtrack. From nearly 1/4 mile away ahead of me in the convoy I could just hear this Europa drown out every other car and nearly mine as well. Had to be straight through pipes :drool:.

 

Before we started I was introduced to Ron from northern NJ who recently bought a very nice looking red and aluminium vauxhall engined caterham from Sevens & Elans recently. He said he is signed up here as a member but not sure of his signon name. He would have joined the drive today in his car but his Seven was misbehaving (I can sooo relate!) - so he joined the first half of the drive on a lovely Ducati. Its great to have another Seven on the east coast. I told Ron to post the problem on the forum - someone here must have a vauxhall engine Seven and can probably help troubleshoot the issue.

 

Some pics for those that are interested:

 

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When I took the last pic the kid was going along saying "Dad....I wanna that one and that one and that one and...." Excellent taste in cars!