The Delivery

Bob was busy moving his mother from her house in the San Francisco area and didn’t have time to deliver the car until July. He arrived in Southern California with the car and a pickup truck load of parts. Seriously, there was enough parts to build a second car. Spare axles and diffs, four cross members, gauges and the list goes on. The only thing missing was another shell and engine.

Robert offered to store the car at his house since space was available and I elected to store some of the parts.

Bob Clark had more than one Lotus Cortina over the years often buying wrecked or broken cars for attractive sums. Oh, the good old days. The cars were stripped of parts, resulting in a large
collection of both usable and not so usable bits.

We toasted the arrival of what would later become known as the “flea car” with some
of the UKs finest beer (ok, we were out of Guinness). The pink slip was exchanged for a pile of C notes and the deal was done.

People in the UK might not realize it but there is nothing like the smell of a British car. It’s different than an American, Japanese or German car. The point is, after sitting in the back yard for years, this car still had that UK car smell. –end part 2- Next: The Flea car finds a new home.