Re: Crazy beemers

In article <fpv1e4$pbm$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro <rps@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I think it was the Lotus 7 (from which the Caterham is derived) that
> was meant as a kind of 4-wheel motorcycle.

Actually, the 7 was essentially a street-legal formula car (which 
weren't mid-engined yet in the mid '50s). It was designed as a cheap kit 
car (to avoid the steep UK purchase tax on finished cars) that could be 
driven to the track, raced, and driven home. Lotus abandoned the 7 when 
the UK joined the EEC in 1973, because the tax dodge evaporated under 
the new European rules.

-- 
Lanny Chambers
St. Louis, MO
'94C