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Remember seeing it at Paul Matty's... rather liked it and often thought it'd be a fun project to recreate it (sort of). Wonder if anyone already has?

I have viewed the events of the recent few years as "The Great IQ Test" - with the vast majority of people seeming to have failed it as far as I can see, resulting in them one way or another shuffling along ever more rapidly in the queue to the graveyard gates. Meanwhile, the handful of us that could see what was going on and "passed the test" are doing our best to head in the other direction, however futile that endeavour may be. What's that quote about it being far easier to fool people than convince them they've been fooled? - Mark Twain I think - and certainly true as a general principle.

Sadly not quite long enough to pit the Esprit and Vantage against each other for a 0-60-0 test 😉

To make it clear, to avoid a pile on by Karens and the thread disintegrating, I always have and always do wear a seatbelt whilst driving or as a passenger... and as far as it is any business of mine, I'd obviously recommend everyone else do so too! - my seatbelt probably saved my life when the careless bitch wrote off my first Elan, so I have first-hand practical experience of how useful they are. My beef, as I mentioned, is with the damn thing beeping at me incessantly when literally doing maybe 2mph in my driveway shuffling vehicles around... ridiculous. My little daily runaround car got the same treatment from the wirecutters. As to all this other government-spy-tech incoming in new cars, well more fool anyone daft enough to buy one of those cars in the first place... The tech will be there to lock you into your own car and drive you to the nearest plod-shop (or booster jab centre) if you've committed so much as a thought crime... Darwinism indeed 🙂

My Transit van (which sadly I do more miles in than all my nice cars collectively... such is life...) used to beep annoyingly at me if i dared move it a foot without putting the seatbelt on... Pair of wire cutters soon put an end to that. 😁 *I* decide whether or not I need a seatbelt to move a few yards on my own driveway thankyouverymuchindeed.

Well that looks like a pretty impressive place! - never heard of it before either 🤔

...there might be some hope then!

The other conccern is do they have any decent Lotus and Aston garages? 😁 - I'm no good at the oily bits, never had time to learn.

Sounds good so far... The healthcare thing is a concern anywhere, and old-age care (especially if no family with you) of course... Having seen the disgraceful way the NHS treated both my parents, leading (I suspect the investigations/inquest will conclude) to their increased suffering and earlier than should have been deaths, I have the best private health insurance I could find. Of course you pay loads of money into it in the hope you never have to use it! - and so I would look to do the same if I were to move somewhere else. As to the old-age thing... who knows... maybe a Lotus-powered Thelma and Louise exit?!

Sounds like a plan... love ice cream! (which might be an issue with the profit margins and my waistline 😂 ) But in all seriousness, yes, that kind of small business that can be run with just a couple of staff would suit... low stress levels is what you need for a retirement business!

A very pleasant evening yesterday... Went to Stratton Motor Co. to get an update on progress on my Eclat and Elan, more on those later, and then joined the run out to the Suffield Arms for dinner - met some friends there who I've still not managed to persuade to buy a Lotus / Aston, and had a very nice evening indeed. Excellent food. Heavens opened just as we were about to leave SMC, and the first 10 miles maybe was quite heavy rain and dark clouds... but then brightenened up bit. Great driving route, then again most of Norfolk is just made for Lotus driving! Car count: 3 Lotus, 8 Astons, 1 McClaren. Pleased to say the purple one kept up perfectly all the way with the 2 snarling V12 Vanquishes and McClaren GT in front of me - have to say all sounding glorious through the little villages etc., had radio off and windows down all the way except for the first torrential rain bit.

It does seem the whole world has gone to sh*t... everyone I speak to on the subject seems to come up with the same general answer of "well xxx used to be pretty nice in the (name recent decade) but it's gone downhill a lot since..." ...then usually they relunctantly conclude: "maybe better the grey damp miserable devil you know?"

Arrival of new keyring for Esprit. Ok, it's not *quite* the correct model 😁🙈

I couldn't stand the wokeness of Canada... seems even worse than here (hard to believe that's possible!) Italy or Cyprus not a bad idea... bit nearer to pop back and forth now and again to see the niblings... or vice-versa - I shall have to do a bit of research.

It was me in my Lotus... the dozy woman was in a 4x4 behind me... Police said she was doing 50+ mph... I was stationary, as was the car in front of me, and the van in front of that, all of which were also written off in the pile-up she caused. It hurt. Lots.