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Lotus Europa Forums => Off Topic Subjects => Topic started by: dakazman on Friday,March 16, 2018, 04:40:31 AM
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:beerchug:
If I read this right, Best Wishes on your 67Th birthday!
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In my mind I picture everyone in this forum as an enthusiastic 18 year old, myself included, so why do the pics we post occasionally show scruffy grey haired old men? Are our grandfathers helping us with our cars?
Happy Birthday BDA, may you have many more to come!
Tom
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Great Day BDA! Happy 🎂
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I'm one year up on you buddy, keep chugging along :pirate:
Joji
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Wow! Thanks everyone! I really appreciate that! I don't know what to say...
Well, I could direct you to the "Upcoming Calendar" section at the bottom of the home page where if you click on the calendar icon you will find that my birthday was Monday and I'm 66! :)
That aside, I am really touched by all this! Thank you all very much!
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BDA
Ok give a guy ONE Job and I messed it up . I thought I saw it somewhere but couldn’t find it again.
Hero member you are.
Next year I’ll get it right. Lol 😀
Happy belated Birthday
Dave
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Don't beat yourself up, Dave. I really do appreciate your thinking of me! But now that we know about the calendar, there's some more birthdays coming up! You may have started something!
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HappyHappy :happy-bday: BDA!!!
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Thanks, Andy!
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Happy BDAy.
You have 6 months on me !
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Thanks 4129R! For your sake, I hope you don't catch up! :)
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Happy Birthday, BDA. I have heard that the president is handing out pardons on the birthday of everyone whose birthday is in the month of March. So, go nuts, It's your day. :beerchug:
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Well, I could direct you to the "Upcoming Calendar" section at the bottom of the home page where if you click on the calendar icon you will find that my birthday was Monday and I'm 66! :)
Only just 66 ? as they would say over here, "tha's nobbut a yungster...." :)
Happy birthday mate, and here's to many more of them. :beerchug:
Brian
(who was 66 last December and so is far, far older and more haggard than a mere stripling like you.... ;) )
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Thanks Brian! Congratulations on your making it to 66, too! :beerchug:
I don't know about your being "far, far older and haggard" nor am I sure that I am a "mere stripling" but it seems we are both entering - or at least on our way to entering - into geezerdom! On the whole, as far as I can see so far, it's not a bad club to be a member of. It's certainly better than the alternative!
See you - and everybody, I hope - next year and for many years to come!
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It seems that us of a certain age must have lusted after these cars in our youth, and have fond, if not very good, memories of them in their heyday.
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Happy Birthday BDA from one of the youngsters looking to learn from your 29 years of experience you have on me.
Cheers! :beerchug:
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Thanks Rosco! As a former youngster, I can relate to your situation! Thinking about it, you must be one of those "nobbut a yungsters" Brian was talking about! I will endeavor to give you the benefit of all the mistakes I've made over the years and that's a lot. In fact it may interest you to know that I'm still making them at a reasonable clip so there should be a steady stream of benefit coming your way! :)
4129R, the first time I saw one at a Lotus dealer, I told my girlfriend at the time that I was going to buy one when I made my first million (thinking that time would never come). Thankfully, I didn't have to wait that long. I'm the original owner of my car but I haven't put that many miles on it for several reasons. I'm trying to make up for that now! :)
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There was a red S2 parked just around the corner from me in 1970. Every time it drove past, I thought "Wow".
Bearing in mind the boring crap cars they were producing in 1970, the S2 was very different.
Little did I know they I would have a flock of them in my garages later in life.
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I want to keep my memories of hay day memories......
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Happy Birthday BDA . . laddie. ;D
It seems that us of a certain age must have lusted after these cars in our youth, and have fond, if not very good, memories of them in their heyday.
Yes, agreed.
I’ll be 69 next month. Back in the day (late 60’s) I used to be driving my Mum’s car and on a balmy Friday night we’d often swing by a car yard called “Sports Car World.”
The business was owned by Blair Shepherd, the local speedway champion driver and well know around the place.
We’d hang over the fence looking at the exotic sports cars of the day. There were usually a lot of MG’s, Triumphs, Alfa’s etc. with the odd Lambo, Ferrari and Lotus. In those days, none of these cars sold very quickly, so they’d often be there for months.
I remember being smitten by light brown Elan . . probably still one of the prettiest cars in the world IMHO.
But when the first Europa came into the yard, I was hooked. The appearance at the time were just so striking . . nothing like it anywhere in the world, though in some ways, perhaps a face only a mother could love.
It took me another ten years till my divorce offered the perfect opportunity for an early mid-life crisis . . buy a sports car.
Bought it from a young lady who was pregnant and could no longer get behind the wheel.
A back wheel was wobbly because, as I later found out, it had a piece of water pipe for a bearing spacer . . and the carb would rattle loose fairly regularly.
But happy days, for sure.
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Thanks, GavinT! Great story! Whatever happened to that Europa?
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You mean the one in the car yard?
No idea and I can't remember it's colour.
Hey, maybe it's the one I bought because that would have been ten yeas later and there's not many Europas around these parts.