Hethel - THANKYOU!

amarshall · Post by **amarshall** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 09:04

From Shirley and me - THANKYOU to Alan Moss, Dan, Craig, Shannon, Keiran, Chris for all your help on Sunday. We put the Esprit display to shame with the interactive and multimedia extravaganza. The factory team seems to have been very pleased with the turn out and nature of exhibits generally and, of course, Mike Kimberley now knows about us (and has a couple of stickers for his cars).

As a side-note we raised over £350 for the Beaujolais run charities from the raffle and donations, and have "BeaujoLOTUS" labels signed by Mike Kimberley to attach to some more bottles for Stoneleigh.

alanmoss · Post by **alanmoss** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 21:32

Thank you Angus and Shirley for all of your efforts.

dcjg70 · Post by **dcjg70** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 23:11

Hi Folks, just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone. I really enjoyed being at Hethel and you all made me feel very welcome.

Dan.
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"Music and driving are among your first teenage freedoms, and throughout your life there remain few purer joys than experiencing the two together."

chrisw2811 · Post by **chrisw2811** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:41

Thanks very much for putting on such a great exhibition. It gave the Excel a lot of exposure and it was very good to put some more faces to names from the forum. Roll on Stoneleigh!!

dcjg70 · Post by **dcjg70** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:28

Hi All,

Photos from the day.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8 ... =519151126
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8 ... =519151126

Cheers,

Dan
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"Music and driving are among your first teenage freedoms, and throughout your life there remain few purer joys than experiencing the two together."

340R · Post by **340R** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:46

Here´s the first, the very first, the last and the very last picture I´ve shot. All what was in between
is on the album ahead.

http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z71/ ... rack-1.jpg

http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z71/ ... Hethel.jpg
http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z71/ ... trance.jpg

http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z71/ ... shLane.jpg

texas2201 · Post by **texas2201** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 00:01

This story from the owner on one of the Lotus forums.

I'm sure you've all seen the pictures by now - that once lovely 111S under the Audi A8 was mine. I was still in the car when that picture was taken.

I've admitted blame, no point denying anything here. Traffic was moving at a fairly slow pace (I honestly couldn't say how much, but I'd guess around 30 - 40ish) when all of a sudden everything stopped. I braked hard but obviously saw it all too late and smashed into the back of the audi. There was a bloody big bang and the next thing I know there's an A8 on top of me.

I didn't have the roof on at the time. The windowscreen caved in and ended up resting on the steering wheel but the passenger compartment was otherwise untouched. After a few frenzied moments spent trying to get out I realised I was pretty much stuck - the audi's wheels were resting on my doors. I really panicked when I realised I was sat underneath an exhaust and a fuel tank but the people on the scene really helped to calm me down. I was a touch uncomfortable as well as there was some trim wedged in the seat behind me - I assumed that it was something off the back of the audi but it later turned out to be most of my bonnet. Looking back, it was probably a good thing I was in such a low car, as a taller car would have needed to absorb much more energy. I'm pretty sure that this little blue sports car saved my life.

The fire crew jacked up the audi just enough to open the door of my car and I crawled out with just the odd scratch and a sore neck. And a very battered pride. The car was a complete mess, but amazingly one of the fire crew managed to start it drive it up onto the verge.

I want to thank all the emergency services for helping me out here and all the people on the scene who help me to remain calm. I'd also like to apologise for anyone that got held up in the resulting traffic jam.

I'd also really like to thank Jon (bittenbythebug) and the rest of your party for organising coming to collect me and get me back to the midlands, and especially Gordon (fizz) for giving me a lift back home to my tearful wife. I'd only met these people that morning (I'm not sure I even spoke to Gordon) yet they turned around and came back to rescue me. I cannot thank you enough, you're a credit to this forum and all Lotus owners.

So, thats it. I'm sure there'll be an amount of slagging off for this, and I guess I deserve most of it. For what it's worth I would like to say that I wasn't driving quickly or beyond my limits. I just didn't see everyone braking soon enough.

I'm devestated about the car and even more so for the stress I'm putting my heavily pregant wife through, but I'm alive and well so I can only consider myself lucky. It's been a fun year (I'd owned it a year to the day, having just renewed my insurance the day before). I've met a good few people on here and been on some good drives but I guess this is the end for me. I might log in once in a while to see what's going on but it's taking my all my effort just to write this, so don't be too surprised if you don't hear from me for a while.

http://photos.yahoo.com/martin_houston@btopenworld.com

340R · Post by **340R** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:37

Phew

,

you had the luck of your life. Breathtaking to read your story!

But do you know what I´m thinkin´?

Once a Lotus man, always a .....

Wish you Best Health and Congratulations to your new Birthday!!!

texas2201 · Post by **texas2201** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:58

Sorry it was not me that crashed I just picked up the story on another forum - and thought it worth sharing for the OMG factor

amarshall · Post by **amarshall** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 16:26

texas2201 wrote:Sorry it was not me that crashed I just picked up the story on another forum - and thought it worth sharing for the OMG factor

A picture of the lucky escape is here : http://www.vx220.org.uk/forums/index.ph ... opic=57136

Kimbers · Post by **Kimbers** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 15:33

amarshall wrote:We put the Esprit display to shame.........

AHEM! But LEF have me as a Mod!

Thats worth a little surely!

amarshall · Post by **amarshall** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 19:49

Got this in the post this morning :

The Lotus Grand Tourers

Hethel - THANKYOU!

Hethel - THANKYOU!

thanks

Photos

scary Elise story about return journey from Hethel

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