Greg Wakefield in the mini ended up with a few bruises and scratches but the car is buggered. Allan gets in front of the mini and as they come onto the straight the mini loses control and hits the fence and bounces back onto the track, Ian in the Datsun 1600 T-bones the mini and Moose in the EH tosses it sideways and Gilley in the yellow Datsun 1600 does the same and they both come together. Race 3 Sunday morning and off they go with the rolling start and the red mini beats Allan at the drop of the flag. My hands are too big to get in under the extractors and the alternator. We broke the extractor pipe where it bolts onto the head so we rushed into the local SuperCheap store just before closing time and bought some gook to bind it up. Looks real good with Craig Thomson’s Lotus Cortina and Ken Nelson and Greg Wakefield’s Mini Cooper S side by side on the grid. The disqualified cars were not allowed to run in race 2 so Allan is on the second row of the grid. Race 1 he came 7th and the leading 3 cars keep racing after an yellow escort hit the fence and the red flag came out so they were black flagged and disqualified at the end of the race so he came 4th. Had real nice weather for the last week but is now hot as hell at 33C, not good for racing old cars.Īllan qualified 11th in a 24 car field. Out of bed at 0430 have brekkie and off to Lakeside. The Electric Exige will be officially unveiled in Michigan next month and then sent to Shanghai.Īllan and Alice fly in from Bowen on Friday night and Gus (son in law) and Diane (daughter) pick them up and drop them off at our place about 2300. They’re planning on building a facility in Michigan that can produce 2,500 cars each year. If they replace the airbags and add an electric drivetrain, the Detroit Electric car will be a good hunk more expensive than the $75,000 Exige.ĭetroit Electric has some aggressive plans for how they’re going to restart the company. They are yet to say what the power or weight gain will be, but I imagine they want it to be fast.Īnother sticking point is the platform in itself: The Exige is not street legal in the USA because its airbags don’t meet stringent federal regulations. The Detroit Electric version will have electric motors (duh) in place of the V6. The Lotus used this time looks to be the brand new Exige S.Ī stock Exige S has a supercharged Toyota V6 which is good for 350 horsepower and some spine tingling good times behind the wheel. Also, Detroit Electric is run by former Lotus man Albert Lam, which gives them an inside line to the cars. The lightweight construction will keep the weight reasonable after the heavy electric drivetrain is added. It does make sense that they’d use a Lotus. And now Detroit Electric is attempting a comeback with a limited edition sports car. There was a Detroit Electric-branded Elise a few years back. Then Chrysler had the Europa based Circuit EV. Without even making an electric car themselves, Lotus has inadvertently made quite a few over the years. Detroit Electric Comes Back From The Dead To Make Yet Another Electric Lotus
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