As a former owner of two of these, this thread hurts . You can salvage the tach and speedo and change out their bezels for the chrome ones for early Elans. Don’t forget the diffs, too.
I actually don’t like Lotus Cortinas which is why I sort of hijacked Gary’s quite sensible thread about spinners when Mark (elan in the forest) posted a picture showing a spinner decorated with a badge removed from a Lotus Cortina and he said that it happened quite often in the 70’s when you could break a Lotus Cortina foir a couple of hundred quid and get 3 badges. I mentioned that I’d like to break any that are remaining, and also commented that I had best run for cover.
The black bezels were used on the S1 Elan so there is a direct link. As far as the topic name goes, yes it hurts but all of those steel hulks missing twin cam engines (yanked out years ago) will all need a donor and they will end up being, Elans, Plus2’s, and twin cam europas. These in a derelict state, are the new parts cars for the mk1 LoCorts and soon mk2 Twin Cam Cortina folk.
mk1 LoCorts are starting to close in on Elite money. If there are 1000 left I’d be real surprised.
qute, you slaughter my topic because Mark mentions the word Cortina. Theres a skit on the three stooges where the mere mention of “Niagra Falls” sends Moe into a fit, have you seen it, its a riot…
Gary
I am here mostly because I like Elan’s and there is always the good chance of having a good craic with likeminded bigots. Some of my posts are lighthearted and designed to cause offence in a lighthearted manner. Some people are greedy and take a larger amount of offence. theres no accounting for some peoples reactions to an innocent windup. Why did you edit your thread as if you were joining in the fun then?
You were wound up talking “hate” and other words that don’t fit with spinaz. How can folks just take a dump in the middle of a topic and leave it steaming for someone to kick. Just good fun you say, come on, you were just looking to start something. I remember who you are now, your the guy in the blue 1975 Chevy Malibu that was tailgating me for 20 miles on rt 128 north around Boston. You had quite a surprise when you found out that the diff in the Lotus Twin Cam powered Cortina mk1 Estate had some pin holes from years of sitting on the beach in Onset down by Cape Cod. I used to fill it every day I went up to Control Data Institute in Burlington. The look on your face was priceless when you used the washer/wipers, I dropped my beer I was laughing so hard. I’m
a bit slow and it took me a while but I finally put 2 and 2 together.