A Little Off Topic...

Final papers are still consuming my waking life. I haven't even been home to look at the TVR in about three weeks (longer/shorter than that? My brain is turning into mush), so I apologize for the lack up updates.

This posting, honestly, has little to do with my restoration. The only inkling of relationship lies in the fact that my TVR is British, and so is this:

A 1961 Lotus Type 14 Elite

Look up the word beauty in a dictionary, and this should certainly be there.

The picture itself, is awful. The angle at which the shot was taken makes little sense, and the photographer provides few images of the front of the car, the area which, arguably, defines a car's character.

It's grey, silver, and black. Not even a hint RoyGbiv. Think of Ferrari's and Mustangs that were featured in old films and that were hung on your childhood walls- they were bright reds and yellows, had racing stripes that screamed 'look at me for God's sake so you can give me a ticket!'

But not this Lotus. The dull grey lifts me out of an age defined by plasma TVs and satellite enforced speed cameras and puts me in an Audrey Hepburn movie. Simplicity. Minimalism. Smooth lines, a long swooping front end and wire-spoke wheels define what all my mind's most creative and deepest inner thoughts and passions could marry to form an image. It's possibly the only time that my mind has personified a car to the point that I might have a lust for it. That may sound wrong, but there is just no way of getting around how gorgeous it is.

If anyone feels so inclined to buy it for me, by all means...

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