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Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

Red Beard Racing - Grand Opening Cars & Coffee on Nov 10, 2024 11:00:00 GMT -5
DC Auto Show 2025 on Jan 31, 2025
LOG 44 - Pittsburgh, PA Sept 5 - 7, 2025 on Sep 5, 2025

Recent Threads/Posts

The "111" Thread
by ksm
Cassette for sale. $111.
Fairfax City C & C, 11/17/24
by rcollum
This is a small event, Sundays in Fairfax City, VA.  We get together at DeClieu Coffee at 8AM (when they open), and head down to the Truist Bank parking lot.  This lot, right next to where we had our last GYLO event, is at 4020 University Drive, In Fairfax City, VA.

While small in quantity, the cars and people are great!  This week, our own Jeffrey Hammer was there, with his Esprit.  (I hope he posts some of his pics here; they are MUCH better than mine!)

--Bob Collum



















Katie's, 11/16/24
by rcollum
This morning was a strange Saturday at Katie's - moderate temperature (50's F), and a bit overcast, but no threat of rain.  With all that, you'd figure, 'big morning at Katie's'.  However, it was a REALLY slow start.  We still had a few available parking on the front lot, at 7:30AM!

I was - AGAIN - the only Lotus there.  C'mon, people - where are all the other Lotus owners, on a Saturday morning?

The undisputed star of the show was a beautiful Mercedes Gullwing.  (Not many places you can pull up in your new Lamborghini, and be ignored, because of a mid-1950's car, parked next to you!)

--Bob Collum













DC Auto Show 2025
by ksm
The Washington DC auto show released their schedule. The show will be from Jan 31 to Feb 9, 2025.
Looking forward to it. It's always a good show. I particulary tend to enjoy the Art of Motion display with all the exotics. The art cars are cool, too.


washingtonautoshow.com/
LOG 44 - Pittsburgh, PA Sept 5 - 7, 2025
by rcollum
The 44th annual Lotus Owners Gathering, the national meet for Lotus owners and their cars, has been announced. This national Lotus, LTD event will take place Friday, Sept. 5th thru Sunday, Sept. 7th, 2025. 
Location:


Doubletree Hotel Greentree
500 Mansfield Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15205

More details forthcoming, on the Lotus, Ltd website.

Here's a picture from a previous Lotus Owners gathering:



--Bob Collum




Your Particpated Threads

Photo of the Week

Photos of the Week by rcollum
Thanks to our friend, Richard Parramint, here is a picture from the 'back of the pack', at the LOG 41 in West Virginia, in 2022. In the photo, you can see BOTH of our cars!
(Every pic I have seen from this LOG panoramic pic setup, before, was from the front, and you can't see much of either of our cars!)

(That's our Caterham, lower-left, and our Type 49 Elise, toward the upper-right!)

Also, that's Carle's Conway's aluminium-and-blue Seven, and Norm Beaver's green-and yellow one.  Who else sees their car in this picture???

--Bob Collum



Lotus News

Lotus Reveals Record-Breaking Order Books for Eletre & Emira by ksm
www.topgear.com/car-news/business/lotus-reveals-record-breaking-order-books-eletre-and-emira?fbclid=IwAR2vEEOy-Gt5k6p0epbEDRGfumOO4i4qQV1I548IvBM9NADR1K8DcDtefGc

Lotus reveals record-breaking order books for Eletre and Emira

17,000 orders for the SUV and sports car placed worldwide as the company looks to bounce back from heavy losses

https://www.topgear.com/sites/default/files/2023/08/5-Lotus-Eletre.jpg?w=976&h=549

Lotus has confirmed that the first half of 2023 has been a record-breaker for sales, with around 17,000 orders placed for the new Eletre SUV and the Emira sports car.

Okay, so the eagle-eyed among you will point out that we already knew this, but the positive noises are worth hearing all the same.

The Emira was launched in 2022 and 2,200 examples have been built in the UK this year, a 381 per cent increase. Crikey, no wonder order books are full for the next two years.

And deliveries of the Eletre began in China at the end of March, with Lotus’ first electric car (we’re still waiting on the Evija, harumph) expected to arrive in Europe in a few weeks’ time.