Category: Restoration

On the way home from the local Lotus Club meeting I broke 100 miles of test drives. I therefore declare the restoration of my Elan…

It took about a half hour at the parts store searching through the various wiper blade books to find a suitable replacement. The TRICO 33-122…

A Red Letter Day, for the chief financial backer, at least! Jim took me for my first ride today, five miles or so to a…

The throttle cable was a little sticky so I decided to replace it with a low profile linkage from rd enterprises. I even paid extra…

I made actual progress on the punch list over the last couple of days. The big achievement was getting the speedo working. I pulled the…

Another major milestone in the restoration project. I drove all the way to the insurance company to apply for classic car insurance. This was the…

Given I had a 50/50 chance of reinstalling the wiper parking mechanism correclty do you think I picked the proper way around? Nope. Of course…

I worked a bit on getting the window frame to line up. I ended up using a stack of washers on the lower two of…

First real drive around the block today. Real drive means the doors and windows are on the car. I have a lot remaining todo. The…