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origional lotus 7 designs
goodall - 23/11/06 at 05:24 PM

i would be intrested in seeing a copy of these. does anyone know were you can find them online?
want to see them because the origional used spitfire front hubs

02GF74 - 23/11/06 at 05:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by goodall
i would be intrested in seeing a copy of these. does anyone know were you can find them online?
want to see them because the origional used spitfire front hubs


I beleive Catrahmas used them as well.

t.j. - 23/11/06 at 06:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by goodall
i would be intrested in seeing a copy of these. does anyone know were you can find them online?
want to see them because the origional used spitfire front hubs


I have the books incl design. Only small pictures. I can put them in my photo archive if you want. But have scan them first. Grtz

Fozzie - 23/11/06 at 07:23 PM

Sorry I can't help with the plans...
But the first Lotus 7 was in 1957 -ish. I 'don't think' that the Spitfire was out then, but I seem to recall Triumph Herald bits were used...
that is really the same, as the Spitfire was a derivative of the Herald.

HTH Fozzie.....

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goodall - 23/11/06 at 08:03 PM

hey tj that would be great. need to see how the design looked like so that i can fabricate something like it

t.j. - 23/11/06 at 09:10 PM

quote:
Originally posted by goodall
hey tj that would be great. need to see how the design looked like so that i can fabricate something like it


I've uploaded some pictures in my photo archive

"info for others"




[Edited on 23/11/06 by t.j.]

Fred W B - 24/11/06 at 11:17 AM

Some more info here

cheers

Fred W B

02GF74 - 24/11/06 at 11:28 AM

wot's the nice twin cam on the right, middle row?

NS Dev - 24/11/06 at 12:50 PM

looks like a lotus twin cam to me (not the slant one, I do mean the one you are referring to! )

[Edited on 24/11/06 by NS Dev]

Marcus - 24/11/06 at 02:06 PM

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looks like a lotus twin cam to me


That's what I thought too, ISTR re-manufactured by Vegantune for Caterham and others (Evante)

Peteff - 26/11/06 at 12:32 PM

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