Thanks to everyone for the information I was looking for. I now have a re-positioned door that fits, closes and seals the way it was intended. It took me some time and there was the learning curve to get over, but now I'm happy with the results!
Here are a couple of pictures of my Lotus. I haven't been able to do it justice with lots of pictures, but this gives us a fair image of it's condition.
Between the seller and me, we came to the conclusion that it had been in storage since 1976 or 77. Not much to go on here other than the license plate on the car. Only 22,000 miles and the starter motor would spin the engine so it wasn't frozen. I sent it off to the machine shop to go through it and determine what, if any, rebuilding needs to be done other than changing all of the seals and gaskets. The seller had started to refurbish it so lots of parts were in pieces from the process. I've been putting things back together and doing some cleanup in the process. The Vin number is 73023090R and it's a numbers match with engine and six speed transaxle. My short range plans are to have it road worthy and drive able by the spring/early summer of 2020. Long range might include a new paint job since there are many nicks, scratches, etc that need to be fixed, although this aren't obvious until you get right next to the car. I first became interested in the Europa back in the early/mid seventies and have had them in the back of my mind ever since so I'm pretty pumped to now have one. Coincidentally, Motor Trend magazine did an article in April, 1974, on all of the mid engine sports cars available at the time(Fiat X1/9, Maserati Bora, Pantera, Ferrari Dino, Porsche 914 , Lotus Europa). I still have that copy. Periodically, I would pull it out and dream. Great stuff.
Thanks again!
