On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:47:51 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 01:20:10 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


Actually, Chapman already designed the Lotus 8, and wished that he
hadn't.
The Lotus 9 was developed into the Budweiser beer can and has changed
life
as we know it.

Ed Huntress

My life is forever changed because of it.

Whats a Lotus 9?

I don't know. It probably never made it off the drawing board. Or maybe it
was one of the small open-wheelers.

The 8 was a one-off, a design exercise toward the purest possible space
frame. It turned out to be a backfire, construction-wise, because it
required a lot of add-on assemblies to be a practical car. But it raced, and
it was a good one.

The 10, IIRC, was a tiny front-engined car like the 11. The Lotus 11 was a
major design, one of the last of the little front-engined racing sports cars
made for the 1100 cc class. Somebody is building replicas. It's a wild
little thing.

Ed Huntress

Cars? Cars????? Homebrew racing cars?????

Who the hell cares about them?????

This whole thing has been about freaking cars??????????????

Christos on a crutch...airplanes, firearms, even sail boats...but
cars????????

Your kidding me...right?

****..they havent made a decent car since my Rambler.

Gunner

"I mean, when's the last time you heard of a college where the Young
Republicans staged a "Sit In" to close down the Humanities building?
On the flip side, how many sit in's were staged to close the ROTC building back in the '60's?
Liberals stage protests, do civil disobedience, etc.
Conservatives talk politely and try to work out a solution to problems
through discourse until they believe that talking won't work... they they go home and open the gun cabinets.
Pray things never get to the point where the conservatives decide that
"civil disobedience" is the next step, because that's a very short route to "voting from the rooftops"
Jeffrey Swartz, Misc.Survivalism