This page shows the progress and work done on the Lotus Europa in the year 2008.


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November 2008

A frustrating year.
Car should be finished by the garage before summer, then something turned up, don't remember what..
Then the garage owner was occupied with preparing some race cars he is running, which took most of the summer. During the autumn he started working on the car again. He told me everything is finished, everything works, except...

It won't start..
When cranking the engine, petrol pours out from the carburator instead of into the engine...
And the gearbox is locked (this was overhauled by a man who died a couple of years ago...).
So, car is now put to storage somwhere at the garage, but Henrik has promised he will start working on the car again so it will be finished next summer. It has taken 10 years by then...

For now I am struggelig with the Elan +2S, which had a head job during the summer. It was hard to start it when assembling it a month ago, and now the winter has come...

So, no more Lotus work on this side of easter vacation...
 


Januar 2008

Henrik mailed to say that the car was ready, but he wanted to examine it really closely. 

This in order to try to find minor faults and things I might not have done perfect. Very fine for me, then I know the car will be perfect when it returns some time in a few months.

Can’t wait ;-)


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