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I lied.....    

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It was my first time back in the saddle last night since the surgery and the first time at speed in over a year... The changed gear ratios are spot on and the car is just fuckin mental fast...   

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Thanks dudes, it's good to be back in the saddle again. Here is a little shakedown cruise I did this afternoon.... So much grip and just too dam fuckin cool.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGcIfg

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It appears that the aft "clamshell" is secured by 4 latches. Yes, no? The ones forward of the rear wheel arches seem to latch to the body panel itself. What do the ones above the top NACA ducts latch to?

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On inspection of the photos, i think I can see two pins sticking up which would fit through where the top latches are...so I assume they secure that way?

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been." - Albert Einstein

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Yup two pins on the leading edge, two side latches and two pins under the wing.

It would be bad to have things come lose at speed.  :turned:

 

It seems the paparazzi like the car..

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I think it's fast enough…maybe

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So after a very successful tuning session out in the boonies the gearbox decides to only shift into 3rd or 4th after the one and only stop on the highway to hell......  :turned: 
But the road gods couldn't be any kinder then to have me stop 25 yards across from an ACE Hardware store...... Too fuckin cool.

By the time we finished a bottle of water the the new nut was on the linkage and we were on our way..... I knew being nice would pay off one day.

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Better to be "nutted" than screwed, eh? :D

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Ya got that right....

 

I took the RS 211 down to Cars and Coffee this weekend and had a great time talkin to so many car nuts about the Lotus.

I even got an invite to show the car off at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design this coming October.....

 

 

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Were they "chipping" away at your canyon escapades? 

 

Can you blame them for wanting to take a break from slogging through the 101 parking lot? Bet their grins were as large as yours. :police:

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I'm sorry, Frank, but I'm not buying this particular clip. I'm pretty sure I saw a cloud in the sky around the 4:50 mark or so. It may have only been thin cirrus, but, as we all know, clouds are not permitted in Southern California...they were voted out long ago. Their presence in this video indicates to me that either you have moved out of state, or gotten very adept at photoshop editing. 

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Leno's twin brother? :up: 

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tunnel vision is good, you're focusing on your near future. In our age that is all that matters.  :huh:

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