My favourite Lotus in the colour that suits it the best. I fucking love this car. I have always prefered the underdog to the more valuable version, this must be why I've always wanted a Mk2 Lotus Cortina but have always been a bit indifferent to the megabucks Mk1. elanplus.PNG £22,000 is a lot of m...

Spent a good amount of time last night cleaning this and giving it a good polish - including the glass! Just as I finished, a pair of swallows flew over and shat on it. Argh. Anyway it's supposed to rain tomorrow and I didn't get it to storage in time before it closed. So I thought I'd might as well...

Yeah 6000 mile oil change intervals on these modern cars is so reckless!

Yeah there is a spring and a sealing washer on the bottom. So if the filter is filthy, it can bypass around it. On the ADO16 they include a sensing circuit if the pressure in the filter gets too high to light up a light in the car. Idea being if the filter is providing too high a pressure differenti...

Looks to be UKDM?

Missing the clock under the radio. Wrong knob too!

Has the proper working oil pressure gauge, rather than go/no-go idiot gauges on later cars.

I was thinking about Rollers and Bentleys last night when tinkering in the garage on the 1100. Problem is, even though I have a double garage to work in now, it would barely fit. Then there is the trouble of all my lifting kit needing upgrading to lift one up.

Stripped down, cleaned up and rebuilt the carb yesterday afternoon and evening. I won't deny, I do enjoy cleaning up these carbs. That could just be the fumes from the carb cleaner making me feel jolly though... :D Pretty filthy both inside and out to begin with. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...

If they are Lockheed/Girling wheel cylinders I would not throw them away. Although they look like someone already has done. A 72 degree thermostat is far too low for one of these. Fit an 82. Cylinders look too new on the inside to be original, so likely the throw-away modern ones. Thankfully they a...

Front wheel drive Austin/Morris shared the engine oil with the gearbox. Is that what you are thinking of? Not sure I know of any others that were using engine oil in the box? Ben MGB is engine oil in the box too, including those with overdrive. Guys at Moss did tell me that they were told it was a ...

Bit of an update. Not got anywhere near as much done as I hoped. Partly other stuff but mostly because Royal Fail are uselessly slow at the moment. Despite ordering what I needed on Monday and most shipped on Tuesday, none of the parts I've ordered online have arrived. Firstly that wheel. I eventual...