What's in a name.

[Max Headroom]

Also Lotus 11 

[Norfolk Jim]

Ok Trenchhead.......................

[Max Headroom]

Maxfoot,  if you don't mind!

 

[Geoff1951]

Just put on my sepia-tinted glasses.
Lotus stopped making the 7/Seven in the early 70s, when Caterham bought the rights. With the exception of a few track-car special limited editions, they've used names not numbers for road-legal cars since then. Fair enough, they used "Type XX" , "Type YY", etc as model numbers, (just like other manufacturers - BL using ADO--, BMW using E--), but the Lotus badging was always a name after the 7/Seven.
I knew two chaps in the late 70s who ran a BMW 633 and a Lotus Elite (breadvan back end) among other exotic stuff - Porsche 928, Fiat 130 Coupe... they owned a string of petrol stations.
I got rid of around 25 years of Motor Sport when I emptied my parents' loft in the late 90s. I can still see the backpages classifieds now. And some of their more unusual road tests - Citroen CX against Austin Princess. Two large left-field designs. One woefully under-developed, the other ahead of its time. Guess which was which.

Werthers Original, anyone?

[Norfolk Jim]

Don't take sweets off old men 

[Geoff1951]

Nice one NJ!

[Petemate]

Which do you prefer, numbers or names?   

Neither - particularly. Just the manufacturers badge

I would rather see something understated rather than the likes of Sgoulds "Citroen XM Safari TRD Automatique Comfort" excess

Completely with you there Mark - my lad's Evo, when he bought it new, had so many badges on the back it was silly. It very quickly lost all the bits except the tri-pointed Mitsubishi emblem. Gives the chavs something to research when he disappears into the distance and they are thinking "WTF was THAT?"

[Max Headroom]

Heheh  - excellent - I rest my case 

[Audax]

Completely with you there Mark - my lad's Evo, when he bought it new, had so many badges on the back it was silly. It very quickly lost all the bits except the tri-pointed Mitsubishi emblem. Gives the chavs something to research when he disappears into the distance and they are thinking "WTF was THAT?"

Dunno, my old D reg metallic brown 9000 had loads of badges on the back (all genuine Saab items) including a giant TURBO badge (looked like it took up about half the boot lid!), it really upset some chavs one day who were in what I would suggest was a BMW 316i with a big body kit when it disappeared down the road at warp speed 

[Max Headroom]

Heheh - I can't think of anything more gratifying then annoying the chavs 

[Petemate]

Heheh - I can't think of anything more gratifying then annoying the chavs 

While I do have a tiny, very tiny, bit of sympathy for the chavs (when I were a lad I used to yearn for a big motor bike when all I had was a push bike with a motor attachment [but at least it was a Vincent - 'Firefly', had two proper Vincents in later years]) it is still nice when they try to give chase in their Corsas & whatever - even have fun with them in the Saab.

[collywobble]

While I do have a tiny, very tiny, bit of sympathy for the chavs (when I were a lad I used to yearn for a big motor bike when all I had was a push bike with a motor attachment [but at least it was a Vincent - 'Firefly', had two proper Vincents in later years]) it is still nice when they try to give chase in their Corsas & whatever - even have fun with them in the Saab.

Bet you wish you still had the Vincents...when I was a callow youth growing up in Hounslow there was a motor cycle shop ( think it was called Wright's) where the owner rode a Brough Superior......I had a Panther 'Sloper' for a while - not really a solo machine 600 cc spilt piston with the engine being the downtube of the frame.

[Petemate]

While I do have a tiny, very tiny, bit of sympathy for the chavs (when I were a lad I used to yearn for a big motor bike when all I had was a push bike with a motor attachment [but at least it was a Vincent - 'Firefly', had two proper Vincents in later years]) it is still nice when they try to give chase in their Corsas & whatever - even have fun with them in the Saab.

Bet you wish you still had the Vincents...when I was a callow youth growing up in Hounslow there was a motor cycle shop ( think it was called Wright's) where the owner rode a Brough Superior......I had a Panther 'Sloper' for a while - not really a solo machine 600 cc spilt piston with the engine being the downtube of the frame.

Yes, I do - but as usual in those days, in the RAF, and unable to hang on to some things that I should have known would appreciate, I let them all slip through my fingers.

On topic - my fave cars ahead of their time were the Citroen DS cars - for a while we had a Safari Estate DS19. The present Citroen cars being called DS really makes my blood boil - sorry for any owners but they don't work for me....

[Audax]

On topic - my fave cars ahead of their time were the Citroen DS cars - for a while we had a Safari Estate DS19. The present Citroen cars being called DS really makes my blood boil - sorry for any owners but they don't work for me....

I know how you feel, I've had a couple of Citroens in the past and they were nowhere near as bonkers mad as the DS and CX (although were pretty bonkers mad in comparison to other manufacturers cars), when I heard that they were going to release a new DS I was _incredibly_ excited. Now that it's here I'm very disappointed as it's just a normal car with no extra madness included

[Petemate]

On topic - my fave cars ahead of their time were the Citroen DS cars - for a while we had a Safari Estate DS19. The present Citroen cars being called DS really makes my blood boil - sorry for any owners but they don't work for me....

I know how you feel, I've had a couple of Citroens in the past and they were nowhere near as bonkers mad as the DS and CX (although were pretty bonkers mad in comparison to other manufacturers cars), when I heard that they were going to release a new DS I was _incredibly_ excited. Now that it's here I'm very disappointed as it's just a normal car with no extra madness included

Yeah - I too was eagerly awaiting something on the lines of the old ones. One of the "hot" new DS3 tried it on against my lad's Evo a few weeks ago - wish I had been with him. Must have been entertaining - it was sniffing as my son went up the slip road on to the A34 at Milton on the way home and after a ton-plus squirt up the slip the DS was gone.....