The domain lotus-cars.com, which used to be used by Haydon-Daytune, now goes to a default page, so it's quite likely that it could be purchased from the...
This Saturday, Lotus Ldt. San Diego had their kick off meeting at Viking
Motors in O.C. What a great event. 20 Lotuses, 35 people, Dave Simkin, 4 new Elises,...
There are a number of different stories about the black badges fitted to Lotus, generally disagreeing with each other. So, to fill a rainy afternoon I decided...
Mike, My JPS Esprits have black/gold badges. My '86 Esprit hci has a black badge. My Europa TCs, JPS Europa and 61 FF have green/yellow badges. I don't ...
The black Lotus badge - as factory fitted. I understood that it was in memory of Jim Clark who was killed in 1968. Conduct a search in Yahoo using - "Jim...
Phil - The Elite 503's from the factory had the black badge. - Bruce. ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front...
Did Lotus play fast and loose with model years? For example my Plus 2 was built in early 68 according to the serial number (877). Yet it was registered as a...
ya know -- it just could be that monochrome badges were cheaper to make than the colored ones? as a test for cost some may have been made up and used --- ed ...
My '68 +2 was number 0550 which makes it an "early car" if you ask me... It came with the traditional green and yellow badge. When I re-did the body and paint...
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:22:06 -0500, "David Funnell" ... Possibly for production cars but this was repeatedly disputed by Graham Arnold (Lotus Sales Director at...
the black badge may be a memorial to any attempt at quality control --- or a token of loss at all the Lucas electrical parts gone to the great and Smokey...
There were lighter badges for sale at the Swap Meet at the Birmingham LOG. I think that they were made to put on a fancy Lotus coffee table book, but they were...
... Easy. Black/gold was used for the Commemorative Esprit S2s (Andretti's championship), and then for all production mid-83 until the advent of the first...
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:28:24 -0500, Benjamin Levy <deguspice@...> ... Ben, as I said in my original posting "Possibly for production cars but this was...
Sorry about that last post...replied to the wrong email..... But as I have said before...we had a speaker at LOG....recently...and a bunch of us were talking...
... No, they didn't use the concept of "model year" at all until the mid-1980s. ... From this we assume that the paperwork to register a car had to have ...
... I agree. We know that Graham had been pressing for black as a production option body colour, and I'm sure he would have immediately realised that his...
... My 65 had no badge. Came to me that way. Proves nothing about what it had when it was made, only that the car has had at least one PO. Mike -- Mike Causer...
Hi Guys, I am President of Lotus Limited South East and want to make everyone aware of a car show this Saturday 11/13 from 4:00 to 7:00 in GA. The featured car...
Hello Fellow Lotus Nuts: STALLS activities Poobah Chris Faulbaum has put together another fantastic road trip for us. We will meet this Sunday November 14th ...
love to come but im up to my Canadian ass in snow ed law ... From: <feffman@...> To: <lotus-cars@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:46...
