On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:12:54 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:23:36 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:02:23 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:04:19 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:30:11 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:05:09 -0700 (PDT), jon_banquer
wrote:

While KiddingNoOne continues to live in fantasy land and is in total
denial of what the Chevy Volt is (An overweight, fat, pig) here is a
company with a proven record of success (They won the X-Prize) that
has the right idea:

http://www.edison2.com/

This one has it by over 100 lb. (900 lb.)

http://tinyurl.com/c8mfsw2

Lotus 6. 1952. Nice aluminum work, too.

Back in 2006 I was given a book called Racing and Sports Car Chassis
Design.

I have that book. I got it for Christmas in 1963, I think.



Correction: Where I said "Chapman," read "Champion." Colin Chapman was
the founder of Lotus Cars. Ron Champion is the Locost guy. I had Lotus
on the brain.
The genuine Lotus 7. Colin Chapman's ultimate "add lightness"
exrecise. Good friend of mine has all the jigs and has built or
rebuilt more 7s in North America than Chapman. Lots of "originals" are
original serial number tags on a Wolf built chassis.

If it wasn't so hard to insure and register a non-original 7 in
Ontario, I'd have one!!!!

Interesting. It's no problem to register one in NJ, and my insurance
guy told me it would not be expensive to insure. His dad had insured
my AC Aceca, and that's a *real* money hole. I wonder why it's
difficult there?

BTW, my college roommate has one of the 55 Lotus 7 Mk. IVs that was
imported into the US, gray-market, through Windsor, ONT. in 1971. It's
the pea-green one that Lotus displayed at the Chicago Auto Show that
year.

The Mk. IV was never fully accepted by the Lotus crowd. The Caterham 7
made now is a continuation of the Mk. III.

--
Ed Huntress