<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Having owned several, I think the plural is “Troubles”.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Lotuses, or Loti or Lotus' do not convey the reality of the acronym Lots Of Trouble etc.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">I always said Rover ensure that the first three bolts will come off easily, and the last one is usually only accessible by the smallest hands and most clever tools, working at 1/16 of a turn at a time.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Lotus had a different approach. The first one comes off easily, and the last three can only be removed by a now extinct species of monkey with the smallest, most adaptable hands known to the universe.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Gianni</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Proud and foolish owner of:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;" class="">Lotus Elite 501</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Rover P3 six light x1 (original)</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Rover P3 four light x1(<span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;" class="">restored)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Rover P3 six light x3 (need work-casual understatement)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Landrover Discovery I</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Fiat 500</span></div></div></span></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div class=""> Come on Bob, jump back in, the water is fine and its never too late to go back to a Rover 😎. I did after 37 years (1967 P6 TC2000 plus a 1966 P5 3litre). They are unique and obviously the passion still runs in your blood, plus there are several good
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