Check Out zaino On This Lotus!

69-912 · 03-18-02, 02:27

Ok I was over on a Lotus forum feeding my brain and I came across this 1994 Lotus.

The member goes by the name of AzzKicker (I can see why with a Lotus and the T/A in the garage)

He said he has been using Zaino for the last 4 years and this is the original paint on this car.

Looks great!! I love that car. Just thought I would share the pic with all you Zainoholics out there.

geekysteve · 03-18-02, 03:20

You and I both - I love that Lotus.

69-912 · 03-19-02, 09:27

Yea beutoful car and 264HP from a stock I4 is rather amazing as well. Especially in 1994! Seems like other manufactures are just NOW getting up to the 250 mark with their I4s.

MikeLS · 03-19-02, 12:05

Must be nice to have a garage full of toys like that all Zaino'ed up. I used to really like the Lotus when I was younger, but my tastes changed and realized there are even better toys out there.

Jngrbrdman · 03-19-02, 12:43

Better than the Lotus??? Did you start smoking? I hear that effects your taste.

j/k man. I would love a Lotus though. If nothing else, just for eye candy. How cool would it be to drive a Lotus to work every day and have your Porsche for weekends.

Sounds like a dream.......

MikeLS · 03-19-02, 01:17

Nope, never started smoking and never will! After reading magazines like DuPont Registry and others for years, I realized there are way cooler dream cars than a Lotus. Personally, Ferrari's, Lambos, etc won me over in the exotic car segment. I'd much rather drive a used Ferrari F355 or Modena over any Lotus. Nothing wrong with a Lotus per se, there's just a lot of toys that would top my list before the Lotus...

Jngrbrdman · 03-19-02, 01:52

Where would a DeLorean place on your list? Not the best car in the world but it sure would be a nice collector car, eh?

I'm with you on the Ferrari's though. MMMMMMMMMMM..... A Lotus would be somewhere on the list for me too. Probably not the top 10 but definatly the top 50.

MikeLS · 03-19-02, 02:52

The DeLorean is timeless. I agree, it's more of a classic than exotic, to me anyway. It would easily place in my top 10 classic must haves. I always loved the gull wing door design, looks so futuristic even on a classic. At least you wouldn't have to do much detail work on the outside.

69-912 · 03-19-02, 02:53

Haha yea just make sure you take along a large fire extinguisher!

I'll leave that joke to the people who know what I am talking about. If you don't know what I mean don't worry

Heh

bretfraz · 03-19-02, 06:32

how in the world did you get a 1200x900, 1/2 meg pic posted to Autopia?

We're supposed to be limited to 512x512 pics. I ain't complaining, but to further geekysteve's post from last night..............

Oh yeah, nice car. If you're 5'6". Loti ain't cars for us big guys.

69-912 · 03-19-02, 06:45

I got skillz ph33r!
Hehe

TortoiseAWD · 03-20-02, 12:50

Quote:

Originally posted by bretfraz
how in the world did you get a 1200x900, 1/2 meg pic posted to Autopia?

We're supposed to be limited to 512x512 pics. I ain't complaining, but to further geekysteve's post from last night..............

Oh yeah, nice car. If you're 5'6". Loti ain't cars for us big guys.

bret,

The 512 x 512 limit is only on attachments that are uploaded and hosted on the Autopia server (which costs $$$ in bandwidth for every download). Pics linked in from picture hosting sites, though, may be any resolution/size (although keeping it to 640x480 or maybe 800x600 would be a good idea so those with smaller desktop resolutions won't have to scroll to see the whole pic). The other difference is that attachments will show up as links, while offsite pics posted using the image tag will show up inline.

Hope that made sense . . . my inner-turtle isn't very coherent today

Tort

P.S. I'm 6'3", 280 lbs, so I tend to view any Lotus as a very expensive, working scale-model . . .