Mloc At Lotus 60th Anniversary

[Sonya]

MLOC at Lotus 60th Anniversary

Sunday 14th September

For those of you who haven't heard, MLOC has been invited to exhibit at and attend the Lotus 60th Anniversary celebrations at the Lotus factory in Hethel on Sunday 14th September. The day will be packed full of events and displays including;

• Factory, Engineering and Styling Studio tours
  
• Eagle Development Story, Technical talks and cars of interest on display
  
• Demo laps (pre-booked), Classic Team Lotus on display
  
• Lotus Auto Jumble and Lotus/Motorsport merchandise sales
  
• Red Devils and freefall displays
  
• Pit Stop Challenge, Funfair, farmers market and much more
  

We have been invited to exhibit along with numerous other enthusiasts clubs from across the UK and beyond. We have a large plot with full size marquee and passes to exhibit up to 3 cars on our stand. We will be showing off all sorts of details about our club, it's membership (over 1000 active members this year!), events (racing, track, sprint, runs, boozing!) and cars, including publicity displays (hence the Photoshoot event this summer, in preparation) and merchandise.

 

This section in Events is dedicated to the organisation and publicity of this event and over the next few weeks more information will be come available about how you can attend, participate and/or volunteer your support. We will need all you handy people to help us if we want to use digital printing, exhibition equipment, car stands etc. This is a massive event in the Lotus calander and it is a privaledge to have been invited to be part of it. It's going to be a really fun day/weekend as such we want to make a huge effort to show our support by having as many of our members take part as possible.

 

More information is available on http://www.lotus60thanniversary.com. Tickets for the day are available:

 

Online: £13.00 per adult (includes entry of 2 children under 16 years of age)

On the door: £15.00 per adult (includes entry of 2 children under 16 years of age)

All parking on site at Hethel

 

If you are attending please add your name to the Attendence thread so we can get an idea of member numbers to be present on the day.

 

We have also been given a limited number of tickets which we will be auctioning to raise money to support the event. MLOC is run by volunteers but there are also annual costs to cover and events like this also require some funding, so we will use the event to try to raise awareness of the need for us to contribute a little bit of cash as well as time to enjoy our forums and events.

 

We will be organising convoys and accomodation for you to book, club stand and exhibits on the day and it is guaranteed to be a great weekend. So for those who have not visited the factory yet, or not been to a Lotus event like this before or for those who just like to get together as MLOC at events like this get tickets, get signed up, get involved and get celebrating!

[Sonya]

Lotus have just issued a new sale list for Lotus parts, with some pretty amazing discount prices (£210 worth of Apine Speaker kit for £10 for instance). These items will only be available at the Hethel event and no reservations can be made prior to the day, offers stand while stocks last. I suspect the merchandise department will have a big sale on too.

 

See here for parts list http://www.lotus60thanniversary.com/forsale.php

 

 

[Sonya]

There are a number of short technical talks taking place at this event, given by Lotus personnel and free to attend.

TECHNICAL TALKS TIMETABLE

12.00 Lotus Production since the 1970s, Brian Angus

12.30 Lotus Sport and the 2-Eleven, Nick Adams

13.00 Designing the Lotus Evora, Russel Carr

13.30 The Structure and Chassis of the Lotus Evora, Richard Rackham

14.00 Driving Dynamics of the Lotus Evora, Roger Becker

14.30 Future propulsion systems, Jamie Turner

15.00 Petrol Head and Eco Warriors and the Eco Elise, Lee Preston

15.30 End

Free to all but limited seating! To take place in the Engineering Display room situated between Styling Studio and Engineering tour .

SEALED BID AUCTION

There is also to be a sealed bid auction in place at the Hethel event, please see this link for details: http://www.lotus60thanniversary.com/auction.php.

 

Auction items include the flag that will be used by the Red Devils skydiving team, an Evora extrustion coffee table, a signed 211 print, a Lotus Sport Corporate day, a trim shop voucher, the First Evora passenger ride, and two unique Elises (including the one and only Elise X car - a project to build an ultra-lightweight Elise R).....