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MARCH ISSUE REJUVENATING YOUR ALLOYS - by Peter Burgess EXHAUSTS • Your Questions Answered SUSPENSION & TYRES - Part One LOTUS LOW FLYING The Monthly Magazine of the Lotus Seven Club of Great Britain MARCH ISSUE REJUVENATING YOUR ALLOYS - by Peter Burgess EXHAUSTS • Your questions answered SUSPENSION & TYRES - Part one LOTUS Britain • PARTS FOR ALL SEVEN MODELS - 1957 TO DATE ^™ • RAPID MAIL ORDER SERVICE, EXPORT ORDERS WELCOME • ENGINE BUILDING, TUNING, NEW & EXCHANGE UNITS • TRANSMISSION, NEW & RECONDITIONED • SERVICING, REPAIRS & RESTORATIONS • ACCIDENT REPAIRS SPECIAL OFFERS FOR MARCH .... AUTOJACK IMMOBILISER WILLANS SUPER SPORT 4 POINT SEAT BELTS Approved by Insurance Companies. Available in black, blue or red at Supplied & fitted for £130 inc VAT. £30 each plus postage and VAT. For Spares, Repairs, Servicing or Free Advice Telephone or Visit our premises in Caterham. Only minutes from Junction 6, M25, Short walk from BR Station. HISTORIC SEVEN PARTS SUPPLIERS FACTORY APPOINTED PARTS & SERVICE CENTRE REDLINE COMPONENTS TEL: (01883) 346515 FAX: (01883) 341604 LTD TIMBER HALL, 19 TIMBER LANE, CATERHAM, SURREY CR3 6LZ ENGLAND JAMES, WHITING Exclusively Seven • WORLDWIDE MAIL ORDER £ WEBER SERVICE ALPHA • SPECIAL MODIFICATIONS AND UPDATES • ACCIDENT REPAIRS • ENGINE INSTALLATIONS Veroquip "ALL YOUR SEVEN NEEDS" Our slogan for the past 10 years! As well as having our development and modification facilities dedicated to SEVENS, we have 1200+ cu/ft reserved for parts. A second fully equipped workshop for servicing, general maintenance, yearly or track day safety checks and M.O.T's. Dunnell Please telephone us for personal attention with your requirements. |Zetec 16 Valve I 24A & 38 Glenfield Road, Ashford, Surrey TW15 1JL Tel: (01784) 241466 Fax: (01784) 250915 In this issue****.. • • * Front Cover: Chairman: Lol Pilfold Peter Burgess ond Scries four South Norris, 125 North Lane, East Preston, West Sussex, BN16 1HB. Roys Romblings 2 Tel/Fax: 0903 770770 Area News 3 General Secretary: Roger Swift 1 995 Events 8 Lawn Bank House, Wychnor, Staffs, DE13 8BY. Stop Press 9 Tel/Fax: 0283 791877 Neujs 10 Treasurer: Barry Sweeney Nuke the Leuk 11 Spring Cottage, Lyoth Lane, Lindfield, West Sussex, RH16 2QA. Glome Lol one) Grim 14 Tyrrell Visit 16 Membership Secretary: Nick & Julie Richens Le Mans 17 PO Box7, Cranleigh, Surrey. Lincoln New Vear Sprint 19 Tel/Fax: 0483 277172 Technical Topics 20 Technical Information & enquiries: James Whiting Suspension <5> Tyres 24 38 Glenfield Road Ashford, Middx, TW15 1JL. Rejuvinating your Alloys 26 Fax: 0784 250915 New Members 29 Magazine €ditor: Roy Blyth Area Meetings 30 90 Pankhurst Crescent, Stevenage, Herts, SG2 0QJ. Area 'Appenings 31 0438 312063 Fax: 0438 745495 Members Letters 32 UK International €vent: Neil Backwith For Sale & UUanted 35 Chelworth, Lower Lemington, Nr. Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos. GL5 9NP Tel/Fax: 0608 652337 Advertising Manager: Steve Davidson Annual Membership: £30 UK c/o Graphics One, 4 Belmore Road, £42 Overseas Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, NR7 OPT. Copy Deadline: Tel:0603 700400 Fax: 0603 700301 End of month for inclusion in following month's issue - i.e. 31st January for March issue. Club Regalia: PO Box 73 Ashford, Middx, TW15 1XR 24 Hour flnsaphone: 0784 421885 Roys RXMBLINCJ Greetings! Have you had it out yet, he cried? Right then, without further ado Check out the New Members list this month and you'll find Peter It seems that Lotus Cars have got themselves a new PR agency and Laura Marshall from the North Pole, Alaska - honest! - judging by the amount of my fax roll they are using. What's the Personally I don't believe it, so I must insist that you send me evi• next "anniversary" you can think of guys? dence to support this unlikely claim. I suppose the next thing you'll be telling me is you've got a Polar bear for a fireside pet? Apologies to Tony Hall at Goodwood for my over-simplification of things in last months ramblings. Gone, but never forgotten.... Finland is off! You are a big let-down, the lot of you! Our trip of a lifetime has been cancelled due to lack of interest, the Great That's 'yer lot for now. She's taken the old tiles off the wall, so I British Apathy, whatever.... I shall now go away and sulk after suppose I'll have to go and inspect the work before she starts offering my thanks and apologies to Kalevi Leppa, Mike Butroid painting. God, I hate this decorating. Oh, and another thing Nick and our friends in Sweden. Sorry chums, but at least we tried. Richens. Never mind what my name brings up on the dreaded spell-checker, I managed to take "Nick" through five levels of What next? The clutch was/is not anymore, stuck. I shall patent Thesorearse and ended up with "cesspool" - so there! Now Max, my freeing-off method I think (or stop spending so much time on lets sit down and read this little story about Rigsby, the 70mph this magazine and go and drive the car instead!). If you have the same problem then run the engine up until it gets very hot, then let it go cold. Repeat this again immediately and then head for the open road - mine frees off as soon as the nose points down the driveway. And before anyone else asks me, I will not be publishing any race reports this year - oh, alright, I'll see what I can do. The $ T Caterham race calendar should have been in this issue, but time ran out. Watch this space PR<VS Call that a press release, Guy Munday! "Mothers Ali polish" is now available again at James Whitings emporium and Supersprint (oops!) Haydon Cars. I didn't even know it wasn't? Last chance to book Dany Prignon from the Brasserie Fantome in Belgium - did you buy the car, or was it one of those nasty replicas? Lets hear from Castle Combe for you soon. Saturday April 1st!! Mr North from Kent! What's wrong with the Essex colours, hmmm? Seriously though, I appreciate your comments on the new style of Low Flying and hopefully you will see some further Don't delay- improvements in this and subsequent issues. As for the tempta• d o it today.! tion to call it "professional" - don't even think about it! I am but a mere amateur in these matters. But a change is as good as a rest, as they say. See this issue for the booking details. Once upon a time I asked Members for names of recommended Correction to last months Sprint Booking Form - Cheques to be suppliers (should have known better, I suppose). The only one made payable to -'Sevens on Track'. See the new form in this (yes, one!) I ever got was from Dicko, who strongly recommends issue. Auto Marine Interiors in Leicester (01455 840909) for the supply of fitted covers. He used them to provide a tailor-made cover to Cadwell Park Track Day has moved to protect the nose on his FF racer whilst in transit. Are there any 22nd September. Get your entries in more out there? now.! March 1995 Low Flying M€W9 HGRT9 AK€A - JdNUrfRY they never actually write to the newsletter to get answered. Once (Two Sevens DA & TB froze). again if there is interest, we'll do it. My dog and bone is 01935 71394. Rhert Land. ynamic happenings at the January meeting! God, its lucky I'm young enough to keep up with these Herts NOTT9, DGRBV9, L£\CS, & HAffS - heroes (thanks to monkey gland hormones and cold showers) so that, I too, can mix it with the jet setters. SO! ON THE NOMGflBGR & DGCGNBGR CARDS! John Watson & Paul, Paul, Steve/Lucy & Co. to November was a disaster as far as a meeting was concerned as Nurburgring. Simon Telfer & Dave, Dave and Darren to Switzerland (plus some of above). Tony Boyd plus Phil Norris hit• the pub decided to have a bonfire on the night of our meeting and ting the tracks. NOT TO MENTION., those already skiing, we could not move in the bar or outside. Still the bonfire and fire• Christmassing abroad or cruising the islands on OEM (subject to works were good. building regs.) - I'd be with you chaps but mulled wine, stilton and lashings of custard and figgy pud has taken its toll (a) with my December was better, a dry night although the forecast was for spelling and (b) with weight penalty points originating from a mis- rain, which kept some of the Sevens off the road, but in the end it pelt youth and a penchant for the good life (it's why I drive a stayed dry. The first problem was that the car park had been dug Seven....). up to create a new children's playground in the spot where we nor• mally park. Still I suppose having a slide in the car park will take Anyway, to simplify things we (the non-royal WE that is) are keen on a new meaning for John Carlisle who always likes to leave with to do all that is necessary to enrich life in its entirety Seven, great gusto! Social, Saturnalien and scandalously-wise. This includes being silly at socials, terrifying at track days, subtly stupefying at sprints, John Taylor had taken delivery of his new De-Dion kit and is well horrible at Hillclimbs and naughty at the 'National' (especially if on the way to completing it. He was taking plenty of advice from there isn't a speed event - DS, RD, SM, DA + 2 or 3). It's also people who have done this before, i.e. most of us. Mick Brown been muted that those who wish to join us will make a cheap day has stripped down his recently resurrected Series 2 and has now of it at a sprint circuit for some highly immoral PRACTICE!!!! sent it to Derek Moore at Classic Carriage for the chassis to be worked on and general restoration.
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