First romanian Lotus 7...

[alga]

ayjay, I'd love to live in UK, save up £450 and fairly spend it for an honest expert approval. But registering a self-build in Lithuania would require:
- structural calculations of the chassis and suspension
- description of welding procedures approved prior to building
- brake test meeting type approval requirements
- steering test meeting type approval requirements
- certificates of tests of seatbelt mount points
- in addition to most of the requrements you are facing during the IVA procedure

Not going into too much detail, not all of these things can be done in our country, and the approximate cost of all of this is comparable to the cost of the build itself. I imagine the tazzy's situation is similar. Thus we are forced looking into shady things, the least shady one being having someone in a country where there is a working process for registering self-builds present it as their own and get it road legal. Then EU laws kick in, a car that was road legal in an EU country cannot be denied registration in another.

[ayjay]

Albert I feel your pain. I've been around in Eastern Europe and Africa and understand how things work and the huge wall of bureaucracy and often corruption to wade through.I am a realist too and would have no concerns about presenting someones car for testing .My concern was the "ringers"-using the details of say a scrap car to run an untested self build and other potentially dangerous practices.

I'm happy to "buy" your car and "sell" it to you after testing.

[alga]

ayjay, thanks for your kind offer, I'll keep it in mind if closer places don't work out.

[tazzy5918]

Hy guys

as far as i can see this has become quite a debate betwen two poits of view.
No one wants to drive an unsafe car on a public road...my life is the most important thing. In this case ,if we are talking about safety..a Lotus 7 is not a safe car at all..let s face it....not even an original Caterham...let s think about a side impact,or back or even front impact...is unsafe in every ways...have you ever see a crash test with a Lotus 7? I didn t ..but i can imagine.
On the other hand...if you want a race car but still a safe one not even a Donkervorth is good enough....A Lotus 7 is about something else...is about the pleasure of driving a car made by yourself..the satisfaction comes from inside of yourself.
It s our baby...we have spent houndred of hours ,a lot of money etc...for what?
No one wants to hurt his baby,his pride.
I have seen an original Lotus 7 and i can say it s not a lot better than mine. The front wings shaking like hell,a huge gap between the nosecone and the bonnet,brake lights working every now and then etc...even if i have the money i wouldn t pay 30 000 euro at least for it.
In my case ( and i m not the only one for shure) the pleasure was huge during the construction but i will not pay for registration here as much as the car cost me so far( around 4000 euro) ..this is the reason i was thinking for some other ways of getting the car on the road.

Buying the papers of a crashed Lotus sounds tempting..if anyone knows where to find.

Have you seen my car ? Any sugestions so far? Keep in touch.