Lotus Club Queensland

Archive - 2005

Brass Monkey Run and Track Day

Our social committee organised a weekend run and track day down to Stanthorpe. The first day consisted of a convoy of cars from near Willowbank down to our accommodation in Stanthorpe, where we boarded a coach to tour the local wineries. After lunch at the first winery, detours to check out rusting old cars in paddocks, we notched up 4 tastings at different wineries. Dinner was back at the motel with a side serving of excellent bush poetry and yet another wine tasting. The following day saw group and a few ring-ins at the little known track at Cornell Park, Stanthorpe. We had sole use of the great little track for the full day, but everyone had their fill by lunch time.

HRCC Queensland Raceway

Some photos taken by Chris from the latest HRCC outing to Queensland Raceway, Ipswich.

Xmas in July

On the weekend, the club had a very social run with a morning start from Alderley, then via Mt Glorious and White Cedar Park for Morning tea, a quick stop over in Kilcoy and then a short blast up the range to Maleny for a July Xmas lunch by the fireplace and a magnificent view of the glass house mountains. We even had a real Santa Claus visit us to distribute the Secret Santa presents the club members brought.

July Meeting held at Tyretech

The July meeting was held at a different venue than normal, Tyretech at 149 Abbotsford Road, Bowen Hills. The club learned a lot about the black circular rubber stuff. This was one of the longest running meetings for a while because club members had a lot of questions to ask the guys from Tyretech and Yokohama.

June Meeting

A number of lotus cars were present at the meeting, and an auction of some donated Lotus Elise cast offs were the highlight of the meeting. Patrick's imminent wedding, his Goodwood/Lotus Factory honeymoon were talk of the meeting.

Morgan Park Sprints - Series 'B' Round 2

This round of the Sprints at Warwick saw seven cars from the club competing. Two of which had never ventured on to this track before. Fastest Run out of the Lotuses went to Derek just pipping John by 9/100th's of a second. John and Tom came 1st and 3rd respectively in their class and David also took out 1st in his class. The only drama of the weekend was Mike's Elan +2 letting go at the oil filter seal whilst on the back straight, a quick trip to Repco saw his car back on track in time for the next run. The merry Lotus Widows organised themselves a sojourn to a nearby historic house and a local Farmers Market.

Name / Car	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Run 5	Run 6	Run 7
Derek Dean / 340R	02:55.41	02:51.57	02:56.96	02:52.78
John Barram / Seven	03:01.28	02:53.93	02:51.66	02:55.17	02:56.84	02:53.40	02:52.92
Greg Bray / Europa	02:58.23	02:52.87	02:55.09	02:54.63	02:55.39	02:57.12	02:52.73
Clive Wade / Elise	03:05.05	03:00.10	02:55.49	02:58.33	03:01.75	03:05.62	02:55.28
Tom Kuzman / Elite	03:21.89	03:13.37	03:11.10	03:10.81	03:16.69	03:13.10	03:11.18
David Conran / Esprit	03:33.43	03:22.85	03:16.05	03:17.68	03:20.25		03:16.16
Mike Goodfellow / Elan +2	03:21.45	03:24.36	03:19.72	03:16.26	03:19.19		03:17.47

Tour de Sheds - Centenary Style

It was a great day for a drive, and even better day to inspect four very impressive sheds with equally excellent cars inside. We rounded out the day with a BBQ dinner at ex-President Craig Wilson's house.

Macleans Bridge

Its Mothers Day again and that means one thing, the annual sports car show at Macleans Bridge. This year was threatened by rain and poor conditions, but the day turned out quite well. The club held its inaugural concourse at the event, the winners were Mile for his Caterham 7, and Brays for their Elan Coupe.

Lotus 2005

A large contingent of Queensland members headed down to Bowral, NSW this easter to attend the biennial national Lotus meeting, Lotus 2005. Some of use drove down, some had their cars shipped down. Regardless of the method, we all had a great time. The track day was held at Wakefield Park, and the concourse and other functions were held at Craigieburn in Bowral.

February Meeting

With over 15 Lotus cars present, February was quite a large meeting. Weiber had a run-out sale on the old style club polo shirts. They were snapped up in seconds. We were reminded that the next meeting is the club's AGM, so it is time to renew your membership and think about helping out by volunteering for a position within the club.

January Informal Meeting

Mike and Maggie put on a wonderful BBQ for an informal get-together at their place. Guy Stevens, LCV President and his wife Kerri were up holidaying from Victoria. Unfortunately they brought the Melbourne weather with them.

2005 Calendar

I have update the club calendar for all the events I could think of for 2005, if your favourite event is missing, let me know and I will update it.

Another M100 joins the ranks in Brisbane

After a 1,800K drive from Melbourne, we now have another Lotus Elan S2 M100 amongst our ranks. Chris Stacey has purchased himself an excellent Xmas present. You can see some photos from the odyssey in the gallery.

End of Year Break-Up and Sausage Sizzle

Is it the end of the year already? That only means one thing, beers and a sausage sizzle. Lots of catching up with friends and discussing what we should do next year. Plenty of gossip on Qld racing tracks and other clubs. We even had a few new cars and a rarely seen Lotus Eclat showed up to bid farewell to the year. Good luck to all and have a happy holidays. See you all again next year.

LCQ 2004 Xmas party and awards night

Dos Amigos at Taringa was the scene for the end of year Xmas party. As the club winds down for yet another year, we recognised a number of members in the club with various awards in between rounds of Coronas and more guacamole than you could poke a burrito at.

A Couple of Esprits up for grabs

A few more cars have be added to the For Sale section. There is a sublime Esprit S4s and Marion is very reluctantly looking to part with her extremely rare Esprit S2.2. Last but not least, a Lotus Elise 1998 S1 in Calypso red.

More cars added to the for sale/wanted page

An automatic pearlscent white '89 Excel is available in Sydney, two Eclat's in Queensland and someone is after an engine for an Europa.

New Group LOTUS Website Breaks Cover

Lotus Cars and Lotus Engineering, today unveil a stunning new corporate website, accessible at www.lotuscars.co.uk and www.lotuseng.com.

Lotus number plate for sale

We have our first Lotus (LOT15) number plate for sale. Check it out.