The Regular Summary of Classified Ads of Se7ens Found For Sale

[Paul Hill]

Is that like "it must be noon somewhere?"

 

I didn't think Croc slept...most of his posts are in the not-so-wee hours, esp for this topic. Or does he post from Europe?

[Paul Hill]

xcarguy...

Guess that coffee is cold by now, and your buddy's leg is cramping badly from all that toe tapping.

Cute emoticon btw.

[xcarguy]

xcarguy...

Guess that coffee is cold by now, and your buddy's leg is cramping badly from all that toe tapping.

Cute emoticon btw.

 

 

Guess we're on our own today. :rofl:

[Paul Hill]

Just as well...

Having just bought a new road car this week all I could do would be drool over good deals anyway!

But she-who-must-be-obeyed is smiling so life is good, at least for a little while!

[Croc]

Hey Croc...you're late!

Where is my Saturday morning read????

 

 

:rofl: It was the combination of a big Friday night with a Saturday club track day and another vaguely messy Saturday night. It took me until 5pm to be functioning yesterday. It took me four sessions to get my times down to what I consider respectable! :no pity:

 

I am normally up and about and awake at 4am no matter where I am in the world - its my cure for insomnia! :seeya:

Edited November 9, 2014 by Croc

[Croc]

Not much around today that is new:

 

Gunshipdriver's WCM Ultralite has a bit over a day to go on Fleabay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lotus-Super-Seven-WCM-Ultralite-S2K-WCM-Ultralite-S2K-Lotus-Super-Seven-7-Caterham-CSR-Clone-0-60-in-/171524580542?forcerrptr=true&hash=item27efa964be&item=171524580542&pt=US_Cars_Trucks

and

http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/cto/4730685345.html

 

 

2002 Birkin with a 2L Zetec and the scaffolding for a roll cage is still available with 15 hours to go

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lotus-Super-Seven-2002-birkin-factory-built-version-of-1967-lotus-super-seven-ford-zetec-engine-/251698953900?forcerrptr=true&hash=item3a9a6d3eac&item=251698953900&pt=US_Cars_Trucks

 

Now that Busa's car has moved on to its new owner (congratulations if he, she or it are on here), I did not find any Westfields for sale. So that either means they are not popular or they have very happy owners.

 

1962 Lotus Seven S2 featured here before. Asking $38500. Nice detailed description but no pictures so that means the owner is IT challenged!

http://rockies.craigslist.org/cto/4685355300.html

 

 

Its not quite a seven but its close enough and unlike Paul it looks gorgeous. 1959 Lotus 17 asking $140,000

http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/lotus/1415202683/1415202683ss.htm

 

1962 Brunton Stalker - a repeat visitor to this thread. Asking $39500.

http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/lotus/1414030674/1414030674ss.htm

 

 

Now here is one for those with fat friends. A brand spanking new Brunton Stalker XL asking $49,000. Look at this bad boy!

 

Stalker XL from Brunton Auto. Brand new 1700 pound sports car with 480hp LS crate engine and T-56 magnum transmission. Independent suspension front and rear, inboard shocks, front and rear adjustable motion ratios. On R888 street tires it does a 1.7 60 foot, 2.6 0-60, 5.0 0-100, and 10.0 in the 1/4. It also pulls around 1.5 G's in the turn and around a 2:18 at sebring. This car is ready to cruise the streets and style, and smash the porshe and ferrari cup cars at the track. Manufactured right here in St Petersburg. Please make an appointment to stop by.

 

http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/4749957098.html

 

It has the biggest wings I have ever seen on a seven! Shane's stalker is more like a little peeper compared to this baby!

[Paul Hill]

Good morning Croc.

I figured there had to be a reason for your absence yesterday. Glad to hear you had fun.

Winter is fast approaching here in eastern Ontario so local track days are done til spring. Luckily I can live vicariously through my sons and their pursuits to get through the long winter ahead....

Travis sent lots of pcs from the SEMA show last week, is spectating at the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational this weekend, complaining how it sucks compared to competing 2 years ago and finishing 5th overall and 3rd in 2 parts of the event. With no Speed coverage, and no Mav tv available here in Canada, there is no commercial value for a Canadian competitor or sponsor. He will arrive home in time to say goodbye to his brother Trevor as he heads to Vegas to tune karts at the Supernats.

I think they may race karts at Daytona over the Christmas holiday on their way to Miami/Homestead for the 24 hr Chumpcar event over New Year.

I'll stay home and plow snow....:-(

[xcarguy]

. . . . Now here is one for those with fat friends. A brand spanking new Brunton Stalker XL asking $49,000. Look at this bad boy!

 

 

 

http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/4749957098.html

 

It has the biggest wings I have ever seen on a seven! Shane's stalker is more like a little peeper compared to this baby!

 

This one belongs to (did belong to) MB7 on this forum. This car is practically new; wonder why the sale soon soon. No mention on the Stalker forum of the car being for sale . . . . MB7's thread with a few more photos:

 

http://www.usa7s.net/vb/showthread.php?t=9640&highlight=glen+scott

 

. . . . peeper? . . . . . really? :toetap05: Ah, and that would be Storker, bucko. :jester:

 

:cheers:

Edited November 9, 2014 by xcarguy

[Anaximander]

Hey, a Storker delivered me a Stalker last month. It was the M-Spec prototype #00 designed by Scott Meinhart that morphed into the XL that is up for sale. Mine is not a track only car and provides tons of smiles going down country roads. Plan to x-cross it for the first time this coming Sunday if the weather holds. Having a novice like me in a Stalker should makes those cones quiver with fear and not to mention the smiles I hope do not break out on the spectators faces if I behave like a fool.

 

Yesterday, I gave a buddy of a mine a spirited ride who has several years of background in autocrossing. He commented how sorted and taut the suspension seemed but how surprisingly not punishing the ride was in a car that seemed so well sorted. I gave him a rudimentary explanation of the video that Scott has on the Stalker website about how he came up with the front/back independent suspensions. I have not ridden in other 7's for a long time (45 years) and so have no experience to compare the street ride comfort aspects? That white/black Stalker is a beauty!

 

BTW, I was looking at the 2009 Birkin S3 that is for sale in my home state of Florida and it is a beaut!. How comfortable are those cars to drive on the street? In reading various threads, I had gotten a sense that they are a pretty tight fit and may ride somewhat harshly? Are any of these observations accurate? Bob S.

Edited November 9, 2014 by Astro Bob

[xcarguy]

Bob,

 

Is that your white car for sale?

[slomove]

...........BTW, I was looking at the 2009 Birkin S3 that is for sale in my home state of Florida and it is a beaut!. How comfortable are those cars to drive on the street? In reading various threads, I had gotten a sense that they are a pretty tight fit and may ride somewhat harshly? Are any of these observations accurate? Bob S.

 

Naah, I have a '98 Birkin S3 (live axle) with 200/325 lbs springs, Protech shocks and find the ride pretty comfy (new seats, though). I have some 50,000+ road miles on the clock with six multi-week vacation trips. It is not a Mercedes but no problem driving all day. I am 5'10" and 190 lbs. I could probably gain another 10 or 20 pounds and still fit but beyond that it may become a problem. Narrow driving shoes recommended.

Edited November 9, 2014 by slomove

[xcarguy]

Talked to Glen Mineheart and got the skinny on the white Storker. It's a promo ad for new builds, posted by Scott Mineheart. For that price, hmScott will build you that car . . . Or whatever you want.

[Anaximander]

Naah, I have a '98 Birkin S3 (live axle) with 200/325 lbs springs, Protech shocks and find the ride pretty comfy (new seats, though). I have some 50,000+ road miles on the clock with six multi-week vacation trips. It is not a Mercedes but no problem driving all day. I am 5'10" and 190 lbs. I could probably gain another 10 or 20 pounds and still fit but beyond that it may become a problem. Narrow driving shoes recommended.

 

Thanks Slomove. With 50K on the clock, that is a pretty clear indication that the car is a nice ride. I saw on your link that you got it with 600 miles so with all of those trips you have taken, it must be a sweet ride. I guess the reports of them being a bit tight are fairly accurate. Luckily, I have shrunk to 5'7" and 170 lbs. so would find the cockpit pretty comfy. Even the wider Storker benefits from narrow shoes for the pedals so that is not a big deal.

[Anaximander]

Bob,

 

Is that your white car for sale?

 

No, I have Scott/Glenn's Blue/Black Stalker. You can see the tiny pic in my Avatar standing next to the Storker (Scott is going to kick my butt for morphing the name as you so aptly have taught me xcarguy). The only cosmetic change I have made to the car is that I cut off the rear diffuser so it would fit on my utility trailer for hauling to x-cross events with racing tires/wheels. I have no plans to ever do wheel-to-wheel racing and will not be getting the car up to track speeds that I have seen it do on videos at Sebring.

Edited November 9, 2014 by Astro Bob

[xcarguy]

Bob,

 

If the Minehearts give you any s#%t for Storker morphing, send them my way. I spend away to much time promoting their cars to take any flak. . As for speed, you will go faster. Yes, Bob, you will. No sense in even arguing that one.

[Croc]

. . . . peeper? . . . . . really? :toetap05:

 

I could have used many other "p" words.... all would have 'fit' the purpose! :jester:

[xcarguy]

I could have used many other "p" words.... all would have 'fit' the purpose! :jester:

 

You're killing me . . . . . . . :jester:

[NVP66S]

Not much around today that is new:

 

Now that Busa's car has moved on to its new owner (congratulations if he, she or it are on here), I did not find any Westfields for sale. So that either means they are not popular or they have very happy owners.

!

 

This owner is happy. As for popularity, I have yet to meet a single Westie owner in person in the US, if you don't count the Flyin' Miata demo car. Kinda strange, I think considering the 200/year sold in the UK. I guess most of them go out the door as completed cars, which are not available here.

[Croc]

NVP - you raise an interesting point. I know a lot of Westfields have been sold in the US but they do not come up frequently which begs the question where are they. When they do come up for sale I am often amazed that they have been living a short distance away from me, yet myself and none of the local seven community have ever come across them, even from word of mouth which is usually pretty good around the club/cars&coffee scene.

[Croc]

I think officially the driving season is over! Very few cars for sale on the usual locations given they now offer the bracing experience of cold air botoxing the face solid and a little pecker that will have retracted somewhere up near the tonsils. At least thats the case in my part of the civilized world where snow was sighted this week. :ack:

 

 

Well...today we have a CMC Locost 7 project car on Fleabay. Clearly needs some work. Starting bid at $3200 with 6 days to go:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Locost-7-Lotus-Seven-7-Caterham-Seven-7-/201216403033?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2ed96ea659&vxp=mtr

 

 

Then here is a McSorley seven project at rolling stage. I know nothing about Toyota Supra drivetrains although I do have memories of it being a particularly nasty understeering bitch of a car when I drove one in the 1980s in Australia. Were these 6 cylinder?

 

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/4755690668.html

 

Asking $4500

 

 

Now in upper Michigan we have something very interesting. A 2012 Lotus 7 ground up build with a V8. Putting aside he used a 351 Windsor instead of my strong preferences for 351 Clevelands, this looks a really really interesting build. I just wish there were more photos. .

 

For sale is my custom built Lotus 7 replica (well sort of a replica). This car was designed and built by myself from the ground up; literally. It was designed to basically replicate the Lotus 7 but is also significantly different to accommodate the monster drive train this car has. Here is a list of features:

 

Ford 351W V8 Engine, Bored .030 over and freshly rebuilt, Lunati Voodoo cam, all Comp head components, Air gap intake manifold, 1000 CFM throttle body, custom Megasquirt stand-alone engine management system, distributorless ignition system.

Tremec T-5 Transmission (world class, long shaft, from a 95 mustang)

Wilwood brake/clutch hydraulic pedal assembly

Aluminum fuel cell, 12 gallon, -6AN fuel lines throughout

Vented slotted front brakes on Mustang II spindles

Coil-over adjustable shocks all around

Mustang II manual steering rack

Ford 8.8" rear end with disc brakes and 3.53 gear ratio.

Kirkey racing aluminum seats and 4 point harness

Innovate Motorsports wideband O2 gage

Mustang GT wheels and tires

Pi System 2 Racing Dash for instrumentation

Kenwood CD/Bluetooth Headunit w/ Pioneer 6x9 speakers

All aluminum and fiberglass body

 

This car has been my project for the last three years and is at a stage now where it is near completion and I have lost interest. Now it is time for a new owner to take over and put their own vision into the car. As it, the car is an absolute blast to drive and gets a ton of attention but it's time to sell and move on to the next project.

 

Serious inquiries only please and reasonable offers will be considered

Asking $8000

 

http://up.craigslist.org/cto/4761400844.html

 

Given none the photos show a bonnet/hood I assume that this is something needed?

 

 

For those who missed it last week the Stalker XL ad is back. This is a generic ad on what the Mineharts could do to your bowels, face, emotions, composure, underwear, etc (and wallets) if they strap you into this bad boy.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/4749957098.html

 

It would take a while to wipe the smile off my face from having a drive of this!

 

 

 

And a shout out for TwoBone's car for sale in Canada - a pristine looking crossflow with the snowflake wheels. My ideal classic Caterham.

http://usa7s.com/vb/showthread.php?t=10111

 

Given he is buying a turbo Miata then I have the following bumper sticker for your new purchase:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-worlds-greatest-Hairdresser-sticker-7-year-water-fade-proof-vinyl-/271540268270?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3f390facee&vxp=mtr

 

Good luck with your sale! :seeya:

 

 

And for those looking for coffee club ads for the next 2 weeks I will be spending 40,000 miles in the air working in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Male, and for the Thanksgiving holidays, a nice quiet coral atoll called Laamu in the Maldives. :cheers:

Edited November 15, 2014 by Croc
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