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Brown loafers in those days surely.

Good to meet you too, nice to put a face to a name I’ve known for so many years!

It might be a bit low for the road, although the ground effect clearly works on track as i've ground the heads off the titanium bolts holding the front clam on, which must have created some cool looking sparks

Rich B wrote: Mon Oct 06, 2025 7:40 pm looks great in “real life” photos. the engine bay is VERY pretty.

Thanks!

According to Chris Harris it looks very menacing coming up behind you on track too

Nice pics, thank you!

Did we get to chat? I spoke to quite a few people during the day about the car, it was a fun day!

Come and have a go in the abarth if you like, its quite good fun.

Mike1215 wrote: Sat Sep 27, 2025 10:10 pm

I didn’t realise it was that far back, I’d only had the lotus for a few weeks at that point!

How’s the noise in reality to the video? It sounds amazing but I know microphones have a habit of dulling loud stuff


Listen to it with earphones and turn the volume to the max and thats about right. Basically if you can't hear a person next to you shouting at the top of their voice you've got ...

Fantastic! Was it a proper review by Harris or just a taster to whet his appetite?

And is he shorter than me? 😄


About the same I reckon :)

It was just a taster, he didn't have time to drive it as he was fully committed to other stuff, he driven up from london then night before from the Luca ...

Today I had probably the most epic day I’ve had in a car, at the mission motorsport invitational track day at Anglesey. I gave passenger laps all day long and in between chatted to lots of lovely people that were interested in the car, not least this bloke…

https://i.imgur.com/i3bswVh.jpeg ...

Condolences Mike but as others have said it’s good to see you post, I have such fond memories of chasing the cosseh and hearing the tyres chirping as they struggled to find traction at speed…one of these days we should have another blast across wales.

I can confirm its an absolute pain in the ring piece as I race one with a central seat, it just makes everything slightly more awkward

Works for me.

All of these cars stopped being something for people like us years ago, they’re just for tech bro’s and stock brokers now to show off to their mates about.

Jobbo wrote: Thu Aug 21, 2025 6:28 am Depreciation would be pretty disastrous and more than wipe out the tax saving in the first year.

I was thinking as I was reading, if you're brave enough to buy a used one you'd get a bargain surely?

What a pleasant evening, should do it a bit more often than every 15 years or so.

Alas I won't be bringing the elise as i'm doing a little bit of work on it at the moment, but i'll be along later. Looking forward to it.

I could waste hours on that website, it’s absolutely ace.

tim wrote: Mon Aug 11, 2025 4:06 pm If you sell one can we all come to your workshop and have a massive piss up and a poke around it?

Outstanding work. Trolling PH is just the icing on really.

Absolutely, drinks will be on me.

I have a landline in the workshop too but if you actually want to get hold of me you need to ring my mobile.