Car has now been sold

Well it had to come to an end sometime.
The car has been sold to a fellow enthusiast, Mathew.
He has a few plans to change the way the car looks and I'm sure he will enjoy every moment of it.
I had a great time building the car and modifying it, but all good things must come to an end.
I've decided to get back into Motorcycles with the money from the Lotus 7 buying me a very good condition Ducati 996.

Driving!

Due to the great weather recently I've managed to get a lot of driving in!
Over the last few weeks I've managed to do my daily commute to work (approx. 30km) in the 7.
Its given me a good chance to get re-acquainted with the handling and performance.
I love the way its so direct and can be flung sideways with a flick of the wrist and a bootful of throttle.

New Plates & Pics

Finally got around to putting my old personalised plates on.

Also have tidied up a few items on the car: repainted front steering components, painted high brake stop light, added a bit of chequer plate to the heel area of the drivers side.
Took some pics too for the Lotus7.co.nz calendar which have been accepted to be published in next years :)

New Badge complete

I spent an hour or two filing and polishing the badge components, have only done one at this stage.
Looks pretty good I think.

Laser cut components

Through my work we have access to a company that does Laser cutting.
I got my father a new stainless dash cut for his boat, and due to the minimum charge, I thought I'd get a few other bits done out of aluminium too!

I got some bonnet vent surrounds out of 2mm and 3 sets of badge components from 3mm.
Currently I've got some cheap Lotus badges on the bonnet/boot and will be replacing them with these!
Once they are radiused and polished they will look really nice i think!
The bonnet vents are going to go on either side of my bonnet at the front and have aluminium mesh behind them to help remove some hot air from in there.

Stay tuned and I'll post the installed pics.

New Wheels Installed

Picked up the new wheels.
Sold my old ones on trademe and made $100 profit in the deal :)
They suit the cycleguards better as they are slighty bigger than my old 13's.

New Wheels

Just bought some new 15" alloys for the Seven.
They will look really nice on the car, I will pick them up next weekend.
Here's a pic of them pre-install: