Do you want to get the most out of your Lotus ownership experience? What better way than to join like-minded individuals who have a passion that can be shared through membership in Lotus, Ltd., North America’s largest Lotus club. Founded in 1974, Lotus, Ltd. has a very simple mission, to enhance the ownership experience of Lotus owners of all Lotus models through a variety of club activities and features that include an annual national meeting, an informative web site and the bi-monthly club magazine, ‘Lotus ReMarque’.
Lotus, Ltd. promotes official affiliation with individual Lotus car clubs located throughout the US that may be located close to you. These clubs conduct a variety of events that will meet the interest of all Lotus owners, including social gatherings, driver’s education events and concours d’ elegance. Local chapter affiliates have also developed close relationships with local Lotus dealers that will further add to your club membership and ownership enjoyment.
Each year, Lotus, Ltd. stages an annual club meeting named ‘LOG’ (Lotus Owners Gathering). Each LOG includes a variety of driving instruction, social and educational events, and are staged over several days, usually in the summer or fall in cities that take advantage of unique locations and facilities. The first LOG was held in 1980 with LOG’s for the last few years held in St. Louis, Dallas, Snowmass/Aspen, Indianapolis and Birmingham.
Lotus, Ltd. enjoys a close relationship with Lotus Cars in Hethel, as well as LCU (the US distributor) in Atlanta. Additional, noteworthy partners are Classic Team Lotus in Hethel (CTL prepares and races several Formula 1 cars in European historic events) and Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, where the largest collection of Lotus race cars in the world is on display. As a result of these and other associations, LOG events always feature luminaries who have been associated with Lotus road car production, vintage restoration and race car activities throughout the history of the company.
To access the "Members Area" section of the web site, please navigate to http://www.lotuscarclub.org/members.php and use the 7 digit Member Number, and Personal Passcode from your Membership Letter.
Remember, Passcodes are case-sensitive. (Use upper and lower case letters, as supplied to you.) Direct any web-related email to Michael Gulley and Dominick Munofo, webmaster@lotuscarclub.org.
To access the "Maintainence Area" of the web site, giving you the ability to change your default passcode and post a classified, please navigate to http://www.lotuscarclub.org/maintenance/.
******Website Logging in issues: We have been recieving emails about our members having difficulty logging in for the past few weeks. We are currently in the process of restructuring our database, and this has caused the aforementioned problem. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused our members, and are working diligently to have the issue resolved as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience.
Dominick Munofo
Restoring a Lotus Type 38 Indy Car
For those of you Lotus afectionados out there who would like to see an awesome video, please check out this Youtube Video. Please click on the image above or navigate to the link below to see this rare piece of history....
The Lotus Ltd board is proud to present the new “Judged Concours Option” to be held at this year's LOG. Our Vice President Eric Nordstrom takes all the credit for the bringing this special award to our members. All Lotus cars manufactured prior to 1976 are eligible! Your car will be evaluated by trained judges and scored via a points system.
We the Lotus Ltd board, understand that restoring and maintaining an older Lotus requires an intense amount of time, effort, and of course money. This new program is for those who want their Lotus to be objectively evaluated by a team of Lotus experts in a standardized and organized manner. Emphasis will be on preservation or restoration to the original standard of production by Lotus thereby fulfilling Lotus Ltd’s main purpose as a Lotus enthusiast organization.
Don’t worry our current “Popular Vote” style system will remain as well as our existing classes. The “Judged Option” is just that, an option. If you decide to select this option on the LOG registration form your car will be placed in its usual class and staged with others of the same series but it will be evaluated by a trained judging team instead of relying on the current yet still successful popular vote.If you are fortunate to win your class you will receive a special and most likely soon to be highly coveted “Judged Concours” award.
So have you been holding off restoring that Elan…or you didn’t think it was worth trailering your Lotus 23 cross country for a popular vote? Well now you have a good reason to get motivated!
Any questions can be directed to your Judged Concours chairman Eric Nordstrom at Nordf4@aol.com
Lotus, Ltd. is an independent car club not affiliated with Group Lotus, Lotus Cars USA, Classic Team Lotus, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates.
