Buyers Guide for The Wedges - Practical Classics 2002

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Buyers Guide for The Wedges - Practical Classics 2002

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Lotus Eclat, Elite and Excel 1974 to 1992 Buyers Guide - practical Classics Nov 2002

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Even in 2002 they thought the exterior brightwork was "unbelievably expensive"! Don't know what they'd think now! :shock:

Well worth posting Marcus - well done! Needs to be a sticky!

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A good find. Thanks for posting.
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Thanks for posting, interesting reading!

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I've cleaned-up those six JPEGs and combined them into one 1.04 meg 6-page PDF. Unfortunately, the original text resolution was a little fuzzy, and it's no better in the PDF. If you want a copy, you can download one here:

https://tinyurl.com/4enks6b7

That's my GoogleDrive accounnt, and I have limited extra space. Therefore, I'll only leave the file on the drive for a limited time. If you want a copy, don't wait, download one now.

Regards,
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Post by rbgosling »

The article has Chapman living for an extra 10 years longer than he actually did - poor quality research/fact checking there!!
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Brilliant - despite the error! Thanks Marcus and Tim.

Cheers, Richard
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Great article, many thanks for the posting

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Post by TAR »

Thanks, good find.
Thanks also to Tim who made it available to download. :)

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