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    Image of billybobster billybobster
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    Perry instructs at Audi Club Golden Gate chapter HPDE's. Here's some pix of him in action at Infineon in 08 - [gotbluemilk.com]

    His car is VERY fast. I was riding along with an instructor in the instructor group in a nice Porsche and that Lotus was just cutting through the field like something through something.
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    Image of powermatic powermatic
    12/04/09

    In reply to Cadillac CTS-V Batmobile: Quick, To The Country Club!
    Either it's true that a little child lives deep within us always, or we now know what those head-injury plaintiffs do with their lawsuit winnings.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    Perry? It must be the singer of "I Dragoned a Car" fame.

    "I dragoned a car and I liked it,
    The taste of Camaro bootlid,
    I dragoned a car just to try it,
    I hope my motorbike don't mind it,
    It felt so wrong
    It felt so right
    Don't mean I'm in love tonight
    I dragoned a car and I liked it
    I liked it"
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    I would totally install a retractable windshield monocle for those days when I am merely posing.

    But I guess I am not xtreme or suprlite.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    I know some people will disagree, but that is one fugly goofy radioactive frog face that takes all the seriousness out of the experiment.
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    Image of LS1RX7owen LS1RX7owen
    12/04/09

    @Novaload: but its so slicey and swooshy, that makes it work for me.
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    Novaload promoted this comment Edited by LS1RX7owen at 12/04/09 3:50 PM LS1RX7owen was starred LS1RX7owen was unstarred
    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    Hey Ben, you should go ahead and explain how the Toyota 2ZZ engine utilizes a Yamaha head, that all federal Elises come with said engine, and hence the Yamaha decal. That would remove a lot of confusion.
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    Image of vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    That's the most exciting thing to happen to Berkeley, CA since, ever.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    The underbelly has retractable straps, so you can carry it around with you when you're done driving! Look, even a hippie girl can manage the bulk!
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    Image of powermatic powermatic
    12/04/09

    In reply to Custom 1991 NSX Convertible for $45,900!
    And you know what else hurts? The rules are so damn simple, anyone can follow them:

    Remove top from Halle Berry? Good.

    Remove top from NSX? Bad.
     Reply
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    This guy must get tickets left and right for being a California resident and not having a front plate. Kind of like the ticket I got at 5:32 am on Thanksgiving morning.
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    Image of Senor Dos y Do Senor Dos y Do
    12/04/09

    @pauljones: Why does anyone live in California anymore? It seems like the state is doing everything it possibly can to drive the citizens to move someplace where they are lower-taxed and less underappreciated. If it weren't for Laguna Seca and Infineon, I'd say that the whole thing should slip into the sea. After the move LeMons Worldwide HQ to Vegas or something appropriate like that.
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    Image of jark jark
    12/04/09

    @pauljones: I went without a front plate for a couple years (my dad backed into it and bent the hell out of it) here in the suburbs of SF and never got a ticket. I think it depends on your local law enforcement an how far they are willing to go trolling for citation revenue.
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    Image of Bad Juju Bad Juju
    12/04/09

    @pauljones: Er, you're kidding, right? In 20 yrs of CA driving, I have never had a front plate. I think I've been hassled once.

    What I would worry about is the lack of, you know, a windshield.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    12/04/09

    @Senor Dos y Do: Because it's really not that bad. Though California has a law on the books that requires a front plate, it isn't heavily enforced. In my case, I think that I got stuck with a dickhead officer who was pissed that he had to work on Thanksgiving morning, and figured if he had to be miserable, other people should be miserable too.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    12/04/09

    @jark: @Bad Juju:

    Same here. I haven't had a front plate for years, and I've always parked in the same spot across the street from my home, and the same cops passed my car and looked at it everyday, and I just got the ticket for it.

    I think it was just a case of an officer bitter about his shift.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/04/09

    @Bad Juju: It never rains in (Southern) California.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/04/09

    @pauljones: It was just a fix it ticket right?
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    12/04/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Nope. It was a full-fledged, You're-breaking-the-law $70 ticket.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/04/09

    @pauljones: Wow. That's the most BS ticket I have ever heard about.
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    Image of Brian Brian
    12/04/09

    @Senor Dos y Do:

    Shhh! You've spilled the beans on our supersecret plan - on the intertoobs no less! We're trying to get all the obnoxious "foreigners" that flooded the state back in the 80's and 90's (and then never stopped complaining about how everything is better back home) to move back from whence they came.

    California Uber Alles!!!
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/04/09

    @Brian: If only the DKs Ran the joint!
     Reply
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    Image of Bret Bret
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    I can't decide which is more painful. Chrome Orange in a high dynamic range picture or those kneecap slicing canards.

    Needless to say, very cool build. I'd love to hear info about the engine.

    Also cool that it has the black Lotus badge from the year Colin died (1982).
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    Edited by Bret at 12/04/09 2:10 PM Bret was starred Bret was unstarred
    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    Perry, I don't know you but I love you and want to bear your children (which is odd as I am a hetero male).
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    Edited by OldeEnglishD at 12/04/09 2:17 PM OldeEnglishD was starred OldeEnglishD was unstarred
    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    12/04/09

    In reply to One-Off Lotus Elise Superlight Is Awesome
    If you draw a line from the top of the front fender to the top of the roll bar it makes me queasy.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    12/04/09

    In reply to Custom 1991 NSX Convertible for $45,900!
    Rendering all of Ayrton Senna's development driving moot equals didgeridoo-sized crack pipe.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    12/04/09

    In reply to Cadillac CTS-V Batmobile: Quick, To The Country Club!
    I'd like to personally save this machine, have it stripped to bare metal, and paint it a candy silver/red/green...something....
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