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Most of us have
had a favorite drive or some memorable travels in our Sevens.
Whether that first drive home, the endurance run, or the drive
where everything seemed to go wrong, this is the place to read
and share these stories. Please enjoy them and consider sending
yours. email
Seven USA Tour - And Beyond!
The intrepid Ross Robbins not only
traverses 2,400 miles in his Seven with the USA Tour, he proceeds
to drive the car home from Vacaville, California to Colorado
on a freshly rebuilt engine... more |
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The last Lotus 61 at Hethel
Rich Stadther writes: "A couple
of years ago the man who originally brought our Lotus 61 to the
states wrote the attached. He said he would be happy to see it
on line." more |
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'Terlingua Race Team' Seven
It's an old story. Boy falls for
girl. Girl dumps boy. Boy buys hot rod. It was 1967, I was 21,
and I decided I could get out of the dumps if only my Mark I
Sprite (bugeye) had more horsepower... more |
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Series 4 Seven - Tank and Tank2
As a 15 year old schoolboy, I dreamed
of owning 'a driving machine' ...a basic, uncivilised & unsociable,
plastic bodied machine, namely the Lotus 7. more |
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Road
America, 2003
There it was on the vintage-race@autox.team.net
email list. An announcement for the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival
at Road America... featuring... LOTUS! more |
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Driving a Series IV Twincam
Spring Break in Florida allows the opportunity to visit Wire
Wheel Calssic Sportscars and have my first go in a Series IV
Seven - a 1973 Big Valve Twincam no less! more |
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Seven America on a Rolling
Road
Ever wondered what a Lotus Seven America would do on a rolling
road dynamometer? Ever been on a rolling road? Come along on
my first rolling road experience! more |
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David and Virginia Caley
Virginia and I took our Seven (1966
S2 Ford 105 998 cc) on a 1000 mile tour around Lake Michigan
in 1996 as part of Automobile Magazine Perfect Ten Celebration
tour with 40 other pre-federal regulation (1968) cars. more |
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Ross Robbins
I did buy the Seven in Washington,
and tried to get it shipped and even thought about taking my
race trailer up there and retrieving it, but finally decided
I needed a little adventure. Since God protects drunks and fools...
more |
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Vintage Races in the Rain
Our trek to the vintage races at Grattan... my 10 year old son
and I started out on a grey Sunday morning to venture nearly
100 miles from our home to watch a friend race his S2 Super Seven.
The rain started about 20 miles from the track. more |
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John and Austin Donohoe
Now, you have to know that until this point I hadn't had the
opportunity to experience a Seven of displacement greater than
the 948cc of my own... more |
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Steve Winterberg
Bit difficult over here to travel any great distance but in '95
a bunch of us did the Lands End to John O'Groats run one weekend
in 7's. Totally wicked stuff! more |
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