Lovin the avatar Noir, very clever.... wish I was back on the Wirral, I could have met up with all you guys a bit easier, stuck in Towertown as it is , grrrrr

Thanks! It dawned on my that my respray of blue with red stripe and my ability to wear my underpants over my trousers could make for a super(man) 7 motif for the car.

yeah it's cool, the diamond shape kinda mirrors the Lotus Triangle affair... You wear your undies over your pants as well, thank god for that, i thought it was me going mad

Fromage noir
Ystradgynlais - OK thats just the road in UK terms, did you ever attend the chepstow L7 meet or do any Taffia blats?
Like wise if you want to blat in Mid Wales let me know, in fact I'm hoping to Blat this weekend, weather permitting.
Mal

Never made it to any of the Chepstow meets. Did a couple of the Nomads meets though. Should really get to more but life/work gets in the way somewhat.
We did the 2006 Big Welsh Blat ... which was probably that last big thing I did before taking the car off the road which has just made me realised how long I've (not) been rebuilding it!


Hoping to get it finished by the end of the year so come the spring I'll take you up on the offer of a run out

Fromage noir
Taffia 2006 Big Welsh Blat - Me too though not in the Lotus S4 coz the engine had seized, I did it in my Orange Dutton Phaeton s3, still have the sticker from that blat on my garage wall, The Dut was featured/pictured in the low flying mag in the write up of the event!!
Spring Blat it is then - look forward to it
Mal

I've a photo of the Dutton in the pub car park!
Will give you a shout when the car is back on the road

Fromage noir
Please please post up the pic of the Dutton on here
Sold the dutton 2 years ago after 25 years of ownership very very sad to see it go, ain't seen it since though it is currently taxed & on the road.
I probably have a few photo's of your car too

It's not the best pic in the world... but here goes!

Despite doing the car show scene for many years, I have never seen a Dutton up close, are they vaguely 7 based in chassis design or something else ?,

Fromage Noir
Awesome - many thanks, neither the wife or I are in the shot! let me know your reg no. I probably have a shot of your car.
Westy
Yep the dutton is loosely based on the lotus 7 S4 - it has a similar front forward opening bonnet, chassis was duttons own, the donor car was Mk1 or 2 Escort mine started with a webered pinto, upgrade to 2.1pinto BV head 300cam etc etc ,and 5 speed type 9 supposedly 165BHP, more likely 130! Then totally rebuiltand resprayed orange with standard 2 litre injected zetec, 5speed sc cr box and LSD it was the standard 130 bhp zetec that made me realise that the pintos 165 was total bollox. the pinto got 21mpg and the zetec 35+ this converted me to modern injection engines never looked back since My dutton was featured in several KC mags back in 1990's

Thanks once again , I know a lot of folks knock them, but never understood why, they always went well on the sprint and hillclimb courses, gave my aging old Triumph a run for its money on many occasions.. but being in a different class to me in the paddocks I never got close to one, just seeing the times they did was the closest I got..

Mal, My reg is S713UMY.

Le Fromage Noir

You do realise that the SuperMan 7 Logo is 7-DNA property...
(Actually, it's one of Hatter's logos!)

https://www.facebook.com/7DnaForums

And mine belongs to Lotus, does this now mean a royalty fee for every post