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Roy,
I will fill you and anyone from the past in on what has been happening with. As you might recall I joined the Turbo list around maybe 1999 or 2000. I lurked for perhaps a year or so gleaning all sorts of info from there and KFM. This is also where I made initial contact with the LOON's (Lotus Owners Of da North). Talk about a mega store house of Lotus expertise. A car club with many people of overlapping areas of expertise, many of us have an engineering background so what we don't know we are able to understand and learn. My first time meeting people in the club and I'm thinking these people can disassemble an Esprit to the bare frame and put everything back together. An Esprit with a 10 y/o T belt is fairly common. My former Esprit was such a car and was originally owned by Mark Higgs the running back of the Miami Dolphins during the Marino days with really low miles and not driven much. If not for the people I met on the turbo list I would have driven it home to MN from Florida and it would have probably ended up in disaster. I had the 10 y/o T belt changed and a new set of tires in FL before the drive home. A 2K mile trip home without a mishap and many years of trouble free ownership just regular maintenance. As we watched the novices on the turbo lists grow to become the experts and the go to guys a lot of us became content with going back to where we started from just lurking. With children launching off to college and tight family finances the time had come to sell off my SE shortly after the economy tanks. I think Shadeone got his car from Fox Valley around the time I sold my car locally to Jay G. At times they used to get together as they are very similar cars in near pristine shape. While Shadeone has the same chrome wheels my former car has a smoother look to it because of the flushed in side marker lights used in the BMW cars. I have seen several photos of the cars side by side. Jay has owned my former Esprit for many trouble free years of ownership an excellent caretaker of this fine automobile. Fast forward many years later. Last kid graduating college spring 2014 and many thousands poorer but HA I'm done soon LOL. I discover that Chris Urban's former 91 Midnight Blue has broken a timing belt. I go to inspect it and it is cosmetically very pretty with all new interior but has some issues. I am working at getting it back on the road in time for next driving season. So like a phoenix I'm back once again. I understand that Shadeone is getting married soon and life's priority calls on him to sell his car. At least he got a chance to experience something very few do. If he is willing he will one day have another chance in the future as you, I and others who have faced similar situations.
Cal H
I will fill you and anyone from the past in on what has been happening with. As you might recall I joined the Turbo list around maybe 1999 or 2000. I lurked for perhaps a year or so gleaning all sorts of info from there and KFM. This is also where I made initial contact with the LOON's (Lotus Owners Of da North). Talk about a mega store house of Lotus expertise. A car club with many people of overlapping areas of expertise, many of us have an engineering background so what we don't know we are able to understand and learn. My first time meeting people in the club and I'm thinking these people can disassemble an Esprit to the bare frame and put everything back together. An Esprit with a 10 y/o T belt is fairly common. My former Esprit was such a car and was originally owned by Mark Higgs the running back of the Miami Dolphins during the Marino days with really low miles and not driven much. If not for the people I met on the turbo list I would have driven it home to MN from Florida and it would have probably ended up in disaster. I had the 10 y/o T belt changed and a new set of tires in FL before the drive home. A 2K mile trip home without a mishap and many years of trouble free ownership just regular maintenance. As we watched the novices on the turbo lists grow to become the experts and the go to guys a lot of us became content with going back to where we started from just lurking. With children launching off to college and tight family finances the time had come to sell off my SE shortly after the economy tanks. I think Shadeone got his car from Fox Valley around the time I sold my car locally to Jay G. At times they used to get together as they are very similar cars in near pristine shape. While Shadeone has the same chrome wheels my former car has a smoother look to it because of the flushed in side marker lights used in the BMW cars. I have seen several photos of the cars side by side. Jay has owned my former Esprit for many trouble free years of ownership an excellent caretaker of this fine automobile. Fast forward many years later. Last kid graduating college spring 2014 and many thousands poorer but HA I'm done soon LOL. I discover that Chris Urban's former 91 Midnight Blue has broken a timing belt. I go to inspect it and it is cosmetically very pretty with all new interior but has some issues. I am working at getting it back on the road in time for next driving season. So like a phoenix I'm back once again. I understand that Shadeone is getting married soon and life's priority calls on him to sell his car. At least he got a chance to experience something very few do. If he is willing he will one day have another chance in the future as you, I and others who have faced similar situations.
Cal H