{"id":491523,"date":"2010-10-01T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=39055"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:26:04","slug":"mr-nutters-cave-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mr-nutters-cave-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Nutter\u2019s Cave of Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This month\u2019s test drive of the new Lotus Evora (see Product Review, pg 78) got me thinking about my own experience as a Lotus owner. Or rather, the strange path I took to become a Lotus owner.<\/p>\n

It was the early days of the Internet as a tool to find racecars for sale. There wasn\u2019t much in the way of dedicated sales web sites like now, but if you trolled the various vintage racing bulletin boards, every now and again a treasure could be unearthed. One day an email from one of the groups I subscribed binged on my desktop, \u201cFor sale: 1969 Lotus Formula 4, $5,000,\u201d along with a telephone area code near where I live. I had been racing a string of production cars to that point and had been itching to find a purpose-built, racecar\u2014ideally a formula car\u2014that I could move up to. Perhaps more importantly, it needed to be cheap and, therefore, it needed to be a basketcase. A Lotus for $5000? It had to be a basketcase, but the ad didn\u2019t make much sense, as there was no \u201cLotus Formula 4.\u201d Weird. But maybe the seller meant Formula Ford? Ford kinda sounds like four? Either way,\u00a0 like Pavlov\u2019s dog my salivary glands started working overtime, I had to check this out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n