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I'm not sure they are Elite parts. The long piece is made by Valeo, which name has only been in use since 1980. The chrome piece looks like the trim for a light fitting (front indicator/sidelight?) and no such part was used on the Elite to my knowledge. I'm not sure about the plate - is anything stamped on the other side? Richard

This picture of an S1 Elite at launch shows chrome finish. The parts book says the non-electric mirrors were Cromodora. Those in the picture look like these. I am pretty certain that the electric mirrors would have been chrome or black, not body colour. I think body colour mirrors are a relatively recent styling feature anyway. By the way, does anybody know the location of that picture? I'd be interested to know.

I've only seen a modified bumper with recesses for fog lights as a Lotus product for the Elite and Eclat; is this where yours are mounted? Richard

I'm not sure that it is necessarily overload. I have the problem intermittently on my car on more than one fuse. The glass fuses and holders do not seem to make a sufficiently good connection, which gets hot when load is applied. I have applied Tim Engels' suggestion of a cleaning fluid that supposedly works very well on model railways. It needs to sit on the surface for a few hours; I applied it last weekend and will find out if there is any difference next time I take the car out. Ultimately, the solution is probably to replace the fuse box with a blade fuse box. Richard

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Would sticking strips of aluminium foil (to follow the contours) be any good?

Not more than £1k if she's been standing that long, unless she's been well looked after. Recommissioning will be time consuming and potentially expensive to do properly, and the paint will probably need attention which is also expensive. £1k is, I understand, around the price that would be paid by someone after the parts.

The Hinckley Motorshow will be delighted if members can join them for the day. This is Hinckley BID's 9th annual motorshow for Classic and other vehicles of Special Interest and takes place in the town centre. It's FREE to exhibit and to attend. For the best parking please register and arrive early by 7am. If you would like to take part please contact 01455 698494 / [email protected] Also please contact Stuart Elliott: [email protected] For more information go to www.hinckleybid.co.uk! More than 800 vehicle owners filled Hinckley town centre last year to show off their vehicles to a crowd of several thousand people. Oliver Winterbottom will be attending again this year with his book A Life In Car Design! Please post here as well if you plan to come along. I hope to be there - just a couple of things to sort out first. Sorry about the short notice, but it is a good day out. Richard

Great job!

TechyD, thank you for your courteous response. I'm pleased that we now seem to have more about which to agree than disagree - not to mention our love of Lotus. I have a couple of friends with Evoras and one day I mean to have one! Richard

First, some maths. 400ppm is 0.04%, not 0.4% (or 4%!) I'm sorry you find my response trivial, but the reasoning you present is more religious in nature than scientific. Just because one can imagine that all our activities must be somehow damaging the planet doesn't mean that they are. That is why we need science based on observation of actual conditions. The observational record shows that, repeatedly during history, temperature rises are followed by increased CO2 emissions, not the other way around, thus there is no strong evidence that CO2 concentrations are a major contributor to global warming. I'd also comment that if you look at industrial history, it is marked in its early phase by increased and damaging pollution, but as prosperity develops, the levels of pollution and environmental damage drop dramatically. This is one very good reason to encourage continued economic growth as it spreads prosperity around the world. A significant contributor to deforestation is the use of forest products as biofuels. A particularly nasty example relevant to the UK is the felling of mature forest in (I think) North Carolina to feed wood pellets to the Drax power station in Yorkshire. When the government published its 'carbon calculator' for Drax, it showed that emissions from felling, processing and transporting the wood alone represented around 50% of the emissions from using coal to generate the same amount of power. Further, wood pellets are dirtier to burn than coal which would mean that the whole process is over 50% dirtier than burning coal. This example demonstrates that the political 'cure' for climate change can easily be worse than the 'disease' (should one exist!) Regarding the BBC's position - if you are not aware, somebody (perhaps the Committee on Climate Change) managed to get the BBC to write into its charter the duty to present the existence, and highlight the dangers, of anthropogenic global warming - so whatever its virtues in other fields, the Beeb is not even-handed in its reporting of this area. I'd end up by saying that something I find disturbing about many promoters of the belief in anthropogenic global warming is the focus on population growth as the major villain. Given that we aren't likely to stop reproducing anytime soon, who are we going to get rid of? This is a worryingly totalitarian view, which is able to be countered by correlating prosperity levels with wealth - as wealth increases, so the birth rate goes down. Another argument for policies promoting prosperity rather than totalitarian control. Poverty levels and health have both improved during the rapid population growth we have experienced - I think we should be mindful of these achievements.

The prototype is at the Motor Museum at Gaydon. It was never put into production. The prototype used the same design of door mirror as the Elite/Eclat S2.2!

Back in 1992, Lotus developed this programme by bringing together engineers from their active and passive suspension teams: https://www.vehicledynamicsinternational.com/features/remembering-sid-a-significant-active-dynamics-programme.html

Unfortunately, the BBC is extremely biased in its coverage of climate change. They constantly do the Al Gore trick of generalising from the particular. With a hugely complex system like the climate, it is possible to cherry pick any event that supports your view, as we see with all these shock headlines about weather events that turn out to be entirely within a normal range. The world has gradually been warming since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 1800s, and this has nothing to do with anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Even now, CO2 only represents .04% of the atmosphere.