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absmiami

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  1. McAllister purchased the car fr Pete Lovely - who bought the car fr Colin Chapman at the end of the ‘68 season - He campaigned the car as a privateer in ‘69 in a simple off-white and blue livery - advertising his Volkswagen dealership - Lovely thought he had purchased chass R11 -
  2. It took forty years to sort the individual Lotus 49 chassis histories - this is R2 - owned by Chris MacAllister - history seeps from its mechanical pores - if only cars could talk …
  3. And here’s another old friend … in all my years on this planet— i had never actually seen the Deora …. There it was …
  4. Although the field was a little short - due to the storms all week in the southeast - perhaps preventing some entrants from getting to Amelia a day early - the competition for BOS was stiff - here was another candidate … and there was a super Delage coupe that i didn’t - but should have - photographed …
  5. Here’s the winner - an old friend - a long story …
  6. But - Bill Warner & company saw this storm coming and moved the event to Saturday …. Good thing …
  7. Sunday in Jacksonville - day of the annual Amelia Concours -
  8. Making a dash bulkhead to replace the Joker casting …
  9. The idea is to make better bulkheads - add some detail and install an engine ….
  10. The Lotus 18 proj has crawled off the shelf again - the resin body and chassis plate are fr an old rare Joker curbside kit …. Hard to find - curious - do any other forum members have one ?
  11. So back they go into the stash - this is a set of 25th scale Webers - just a little smaller - these will fit …
  12. Scale compromise - these are 24th scale Webers - 3D printed - the good stuff - but they won’t quite fit under the bonnet …
  13. Gracias - will just squeeze it on the end if my am ex card bal …
  14. This engine was run by Lotus, Brabham and Lola in ‘62 with four Weber carbs - the survivors - restored cars - all have fuel injection - the Climax engines were coverted to fuel injection in ‘63 - so i next need to make the manifolds that will support both …
  15. Some more Master Club bolts for the cam covers - these are the .020 s - the smallest ones that they made …
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