I am not a political animal, but… damn you recession! Damn you David Cameron and your cohorts! Damn you the previous lot! Damn you the next lot! Damn you Europe and your stricken economies! Damn you Iceland, the US and pretty much everyone else, too!
Because of you all, I expect to soon be a non-Elan owner.
For the record, I have been a Lotus Elan owner since 1999. Since then, of course, I have had kids, got married and taken out a larger mortgage than I could previously have imagined (though it turns out to not be that extreme at all compared with some) and now I am soon to be a non-Elan owner.
Of course there are plenty of other people who are suffering genuine difficulties that make my middle-class dilemma pale into significance, and, being serious for just one moment, I genuinely feel for them.
So please don’t think that this little rant suggests I think I am suffering like they are, but the thought of handing over the keys to my +2 still makes me shed a rather salty tear.
I don’t expect sympathy of course – this is just a fact of life and the realisation that right now, the coalescence of kids, the cost of living and frozen salaries isn’t really conducive to having a Lotus Elan in the garage!
And so, a year after I wiped the first lot of tears from my eyes as I said farewell to my beloved ’66 S2 (above), I am about to do the same. It just has a roof this time. You can go any buy it here and put me out of my misery before I change my mind.
