Protect your Lotus now!

[Sam_68]

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Now you know where to go to to get your fibreglass waxoyled!

[Porkie]

Whats funny about this?

There are plenty of classic Lotus's with rust problems

The Elan for example

Edited by Porkie on Friday 12th November 12:43

[Speedy11]

Porkie said:

Whats funny about this?

There are plenty of classic Lotus's with rust problems

Plus lots out there with nice metal bodywork

Edited by Speedy11 on Friday 12th November 12:45

[GKP]

From the early Eighties all the steel chassied cars have been galvanised. The earlier ones are fair game to a bit of tin worm though.

[Urban Sports]

Oooopps

[wombat172a]

[Sam_68]

Porkie said:

Whats funny about this?

There are plenty of classic Lotus's with rust problems

The Elan for example

Those Elans that still have their original and ungalvanised chassis (few and far between) usually rot out where the body sits on a 'saddle' of resilient matting, across the top of the backbone. You can't access this area with rust treatments, anyway, without removing the bodyshell.

With the possible exception of the front turrets (main issue being to keep the half moon drainage holes at the bases clear, though I don't suppose waxoyl/dinitrol inside the turret would do any harm), rust treating a Lotus backbone is almost as pointless as waxoyling the fibreglass.

[itz_baseline]

Sam_68 said:

Porkie said:

Whats funny about this?

There are plenty of classic Lotus's with rust problems

The Elan for example

Those Elans that still have their original and ungalvanised chassis (few and far between) usually rot out where the body sits on a 'saddle' of resilient matting, across the top of the backbone. You can't access this area with rust treatments, anyway, without removing the bodyshell.

With the possible exception of the front turrets (main issue being to keep the half moon drainage holes at the bases clear, though I don't suppose waxoyl/dinitrol inside the turret would do any harm), rust treating a Lotus backbone is almost as pointless as waxoyling the fibreglass.

I've still missed the joke....

[Sam_68]

itz_baseline said:

I've still missed the joke....

Ah well. Never mind. I'll see if I can find the 'whoosh' parrot for you later.

[soad]

wombat172a said:

Ditto- i don't get it.

[andym1603]

All very well saying protect you Lotus now, but why in your advert use an old XJS.
Andy..

[soad]

andym1603 said:

All very well saying protect you Lotus now, but why in your advert use an old XJS.
Andy..

Think dealer's name says it all.

[wombat172a]

itz_baseline said:

Sam_68 said:

Porkie said:

Whats funny about this?

There are plenty of classic Lotus's with rust problems

The Elan for example

Those Elans that still have their original and ungalvanised chassis (few and far between) usually rot out where the body sits on a 'saddle' of resilient matting, across the top of the backbone. You can't access this area with rust treatments, anyway, without removing the bodyshell.

With the possible exception of the front turrets (main issue being to keep the half moon drainage holes at the bases clear, though I don't suppose waxoyl/dinitrol inside the turret would do any harm), rust treating a Lotus backbone is almost as pointless as waxoyling the fibreglass.

I've still missed the joke....

I think it's a sort of "inside" Lotus based joke.

Maybe it's like an equivilant of a land rover specialist advertising "protect your land rover's engine electrics from water", when in fact the majority of old landy engines are smelly diesels with no electrics. Fookin hilarious I can tell you.

[HAB]

GKP said:

From the early Eighties all the steel chassied cars have been galvanised. The earlier ones are fair game to a bit of tin worm though.

Galvanised steel rusts too, btw.