Dec 26th, 1999
Everything that holds the body to the chassis is either removed or loosened. Now it is just to find a day where as many of my friend as possibly have time to help me lift the body. I still lack the trolley to put the body on, though, Guess I'll try to be a carpenter, and make a rolling stand for the body within the next week or so.

Dec 25th. 1999
What a way to spend Christmas!!!! 6 hours in the garage today!
Body-Off-Chassis is very near. Today I finally managed to remove the hand brake cable from the brake-linkage in front of the car (how I will ever manage to assemble it I won't thing of now...). Also loosened the steering column (the inner lower column is still attached to the body, but loosened from the steering unit) and loosened the heater hoses from underneath the dashboard. (Unfortunately a lot of water ran onto the carpets and insulating material - but I have planned to change these anyway.) I started removing the handbrake cable yesterday, and spent a couple of hours wondering how - until I was called in for Christmas dinner.
Biggest 'problem' right now is to get the clevis off the 'pushrod' in the master cylinder, so I can lift the body without it hanging in the brake clevis.
From Mark Hollingsworth I got two scanned drawings of the body and frame a couple of days ago. These really helped me in locating the last 6 bolts that hold the body to the frame. These bolts are the only ones remaining now - and hopefully I can lift the body off chassis during a couple of days.

Radiator, heater and brake master cylinder was removed a couple of weeks ago, after lots of tips from the guys on the Lotus Europa Mailing list. Who could know that I had to remove the light to get enough space to pick out the radiator??

Nov 28. 1999
Picked out the seats from the car, and started removing the radiator, heater and brake master cylinder/fluid reservoir. No big success... How do I remove the radiator without cutting in the body? I have loosened the two screws on the bottom and one on the top of the radiator. The radiator is loose, but there is not enough room to lift it out, and I can't bend it either..
For the master brake cylinder; do I have to split the clevis from the piston lock nut? Or shall I use a bow saw??
Now I start wondering if all the employees at Lotus were midgets. I had really big trouble dismounting the hand brake cable and split pin and clevis pin in the foot well of the driver... And I am only 184 cm tall..
Hopefully I can remove the brake master and radiator during the week, and continue the work to prepare 'body-off-the-chassis' before christmas.

I am a bit worried about the jacking points and chassis stands; I feel the body crack when I jack the car on the refereed places.. Is this right??

Nov 21.1999
Finally; the MG is stored away for the winter, and I've got a bit more space around the Europa. Today I've moved the Europa from the left to the right part of the garage, and noticed something very strange; When we pushed the car backwards out of the garage, it wasn't too heavey. But, when we tried to push the car forward, into the left garage, the right rear wheel was completely stuck. I had to call my neighbour and we partly lifted, partly pushed the now very heavy Europa into the garage. Removed the brakedrum, and found as expected a lot of wax on this side too, but not as bad as on the left side. I now can turn the wheel when lifted from the ground. I take this as a positiv progress.