All this talk of things Lotus has got my wife interested in an Evora, I've only room for one sports car on the fleet.............

How many car's in 's fleet though Richard?

One tour was for their 60th anniversary and the other was when I did a visit with a Lotus club. Neither were the heritage tour. And both were some time ago so dont rely on my accuracy - these days I have difficulty remembering what I did this morning!

I know that problem...
Will give them a call on Monday.

Cheers,

Red Roadster 2011
Yellow Panda 4x4 2005
Defender 90 2002

Guess which one I'm not allowed to drive

Well...the car fleet isn't expanding just yet. I was due to pop in to Matty's today to sort out a test drive only to have them ring me this morning...the car was sold just after I looked at it! The g/f told me on Saturday to put a deposit on it and I told her not to be daft

Still.....it means that the search goes on and thats all part of the fun!

Looked like it could be a good motor J.
Sometimes the ladies are right! I presume they would have allowed a refundable deposit, in case you didn't like some aspects of the car?

Back to the tour, just spoke to Lotus and the Heritage tour normally takes about 2.5 - 2.75 hours. Normally finished by 17:00 at very latest... So B&B booking in should be OK without arranging 'out of hours' arrival.

Table for 5, in the room with the carriage seats, is booked for 12:15 - 12:30, in the name of Wright, at the Station Bistro.

Cheers,

Thanks Graham

Cheers Graham!

I should have posted the spec sheet for the Plus2 that Matty gave me.... around £40k of rebuild costs for a car thats sold for £18K! I should kick myself but am telling myself that it was the value of the car with a full restoration that was the attraction and could I REALLY live with a silver metal flake roof?!! My heart really tells me a 2 seater Elan rather than the 2+2 really!

What was funny was that I turned up there today in the Morgan and was told that the guy from Yorkshire who bought it on Saturday afternoon (without a test drive!) was a Morgan owner too. I just had to check on his name to make sure there was no neoprene involved!!! And the nice thing is that Paul Matty offered to reduce the price of a couple of cars for me to make up for losing the Plus2....including a Sprint which is due for some refurb work. Very tempting apart from a rather large roll cage and about £5k over my budget!

Thanks Graham. We will attempt to time our arrival to fit the pie timetable.

Oi!!!! One thing I'm not is a sneaky Lotus stealer. But I do like that seventies coarse grain metalflake. The Plus 2 has a great interior as well, but the Elan is a heart stealer, and always was.