Photo 1 is as purchased in December 1969. Photos 2 and 3 are from the autocross days in the 1970's and photo 4 is a more recent photo along with my wife's Elan.

According to John Watson my car left the works on January 26, 1961. I purchased the car from Charles Hansen in Tenafly New Jersey in December of 1969. He raced the car in SCCA class F Production. When I purchased the car it was in somewhat used but driveable condition. I rebuilt the engine changing the cam to a milder BMC performance cam and changed the carburetors to smaller 1 1/4 SUs. The fiberglass parts were repaired and strengthened by laying on woven fiberglass to the inside of the wings and nose. The whole car, aluminum and fiberglass, was painted
blue. I also replaced most of the wiring. This work was completed in the spring of 1970. During the 1970's the car was autocrossed locally with some success. I also took the car to the local drag strip where is ran the quarter mile in 17.02 seconds at 72 mph and the car weight was 935 pounds.

For the last 30 years the car has been driven during the fair weather of summer. The car has been licensed, insured, and driven every year that I have owned it. In addition to he Seven we also have a 1965 Lotus Elan S2 that my father-in-law purchased new. Our kids grew up riding the 50 miles to the Mid-Ohio race track to spectate at the vintage sports car races.