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Glamrock

(11,938 posts)
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 07:04 AM Aug 2024

My wife freakin rules! 🤘

So last year, she suggested we put a Lotus spending ban in place. Knowing what I’d spent in mods in three years of owning The Blue Meanie, I readily agreed. Besides, the exterior was one part away from being complete. There was a a spoiler I really wanted from a Japanese company called GUT (pronounced goot). In fact, it was the ONLY spoiler I’d put on my car. But they had stopped manufacturing it before I bought my Lotus. Had to wait for a used one to come up for sale. Of course, one popped up 3 weeks after the spending ban was agreed to.

Hey babe, uhhmmm, so, like, uhm….can I get some credit against next years spending? Cause these are super rare. She said no. Okay. She let me join a traveling band in my mid 30’s when I should have been climbing corporate ladders. Then she let me buy this ridiculous car. I’m not dying on this hill, you dig? I called the shop who was selling it. One of just a few aftermarket Lotus part suppliers in the country. Knew the owner. Explained the situation and offered a deposit if he’d hold it for me until January. It was early July maybe? As the shop finances his race team, he declined. Needed the cash flow. I get it. No harm, no foul. But nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?

Fast forward to early August. My birthday weekend. I get home before her from the road (I’m a telecom worker, always traveling). I walk into the living room and there’s a huge box against my side of the couch with Happy Birthday Glamrock scrawled across it. (That’s also my nickname in real life due to my days as a hair band singer). I pick it up and it weighs nothing. I’m like what is this? As I’m cutting the tape to open it, it dawns on me. NO! SHE DID NOT!!!! IT CAN’T BE! It was and she did! My wife is thee shit! Waited until Feb. to get it painted and striped per our agreed to spending ban. But for the first time in my life, my car looks exactly like my mind’s eye version! Now it’s saving for custom leather interior and a supercharger!









P.S. had to get these valve stem caps during the last Prime day. Those who know me will not be surprised…



British Invasion, baby! LOL!

🤘🤘🤘





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My wife freakin rules! 🤘 (Original Post) Glamrock Aug 2024 OP
Looks great. underpants Aug 2024 #1
It so is! Glamrock Aug 2024 #3
I feel like the luckiest man in the world. multigraincracker Aug 2024 #2
Beautiful. I would lose my license. twodogsbarking Aug 2024 #4
Thank you! Glamrock Aug 2024 #6
It looks beautiful, Glamrock. Diamond_Dog Aug 2024 #5
Tanks mama! Glamrock Aug 2024 #7
Ha ha i don't know, maybe Diamond_Dog Aug 2024 #8
This how we met! Of course I remember! Glamrock Aug 2024 #11
By the way... Diamond_Dog Aug 2024 #10
Righteous! Glamrock Aug 2024 #12
Nice! 2naSalit Aug 2024 #9
Thank you! Glamrock Aug 2024 #15
Livin' the life I see... 2naSalit Aug 2024 #18
Spending ban was a great idea EverHopeful Aug 2024 #13
Awwww Glamrock Aug 2024 #16
I'd love an Elise. JohnnyRingo Aug 2024 #14
Dude! Glamrock Aug 2024 #17
I've had them through much of my life. JohnnyRingo Aug 2024 #21
They are both just sick! Glamrock Aug 2024 #22
Holeeeeeee Cow! Alliepoo Aug 2024 #19
Gorgeous! Always loved Lotus! Clouds Passing Aug 2024 #20
Bad Ass! AKwannabe Oct 11 #23
Thank you! Glamrock Oct 11 #24

Glamrock

(11,938 posts)
3. It so is!
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 07:19 AM
Aug 2024

Not the fastest in a straight line, but the roof comes up a couple inches past my bellybutton and is 4 inches off the ground. It can take 15mph turns at 45-50. Not that I’d know. I never exceed the speed limit.

multigraincracker

(33,913 posts)
2. I feel like the luckiest man in the world.
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 07:15 AM
Aug 2024

I’ve got a color tv and wife and they both work.
We don’t have a lot, but everything is paid for, zero debt. So we sleep great at night.

Glamrock

(11,938 posts)
6. Thank you!
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 07:44 AM
Aug 2024

Fortunately, I’m in Indiana and there’s very few twisty roads. If I lived near canyons or mountains though…yeah, I’d lose my license.

Glamrock

(11,938 posts)
11. This how we met! Of course I remember!
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 08:21 AM
Aug 2024

I was doing drunk Glam music sessions and you were doing the vinyl sessions!

Sorry we haven’t talked in a long time. Still much love for you, sister!

Glamrock

(11,938 posts)
15. Thank you!
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 08:32 AM
Aug 2024

I’m pretty lucky to have this car!



OH! And my wife too! Almost forgot about her looking at these pics! LOL!

All kidding aside. While I am blessed to be driving a 13 year old’s bedroom poster. I could be driving a 1970 AMC Gremlin and as long as I got my lady? It’s all gravy.

I’ve fortunate enough to be able to own the Lotus and enjoy a new chapter in my life outside work and music. This thing isn’t gravy. It’s a gravy boat. New friends, learning to work on a car myself, meeting people from all over the country, both online and in person. Life is a highway!

In other news, how you doing my friend!

2naSalit

(92,009 posts)
18. Livin' the life I see...
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 08:49 AM
Aug 2024

I'm holding up. Found out what one of my major health issues was and getting it fixed - my back. It won't be completely fixed but getting to as good as it can be is major. This weekend and next I'm hangin' with the bluegrass crowd, great pickers show up at these two weekend long jams and we have a lot of fun. They're outdoor/camp out set ups with several "circles" to wander around to and from, some just get going behind the pick up trucks in the field or behind the barn, it's a laid back but unbelievably fun music event. People come from all over for these. There are fiddles, dobros, banjos, ancient Martin guitars and others, anything acoustic, anyone can join in. I usually get down with the harmonies but I can put out some mean Patsy Cline when asked to.

After this, it could be hangin' with a Gypsy jazz fest, we'll see.

Other than that, it's too damn hot, we aren't supposed to have triple digit temps in Montana which is 97% north of the 45th parallel.

Car-wise, my '92 4runner is nearly restored, got some cosmetics on the exterior to finish up; thinking about how long to keep the BMW (2004 x3i) since it likes to spend my money more than I like. I'd be okay with the 4runner if I got rid of the bmer but I kind of like the luxury ride and was hoping for a trade-in deal for an electric car at some point. We'll see.


EverHopeful

(356 posts)
13. Spending ban was a great idea
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 08:25 AM
Aug 2024

My sister never instituted such a ban so her Lotus kept her broke (but happy, I think) for years.

Never got hers looking as perfect as your beauty though.

Glamrock

(11,938 posts)
16. Awwww
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 08:39 AM
Aug 2024

Thank you! It’s been a labor of love! I’m just happy I’ve got the exterior “done”. You’re never done with a car if you’re a gearhead. But outside new clear bra in a year or two, the outside done. Now I gotta plan for engine and interior mods. LOL! Ahhh, first world problems are brutal! But like your sister, keeps me happy.

JohnnyRingo

(19,266 posts)
14. I'd love an Elise.
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 08:29 AM
Aug 2024

Or just about any other Lotus actually, but the Elise is my favorite.
Meanwhile, I can be happy in my TR6.

JohnnyRingo

(19,266 posts)
21. I've had them through much of my life.
Sun Aug 4, 2024, 10:33 AM
Aug 2024

I bought this TR6 in 1999 just before I retired, so it's my last.
It's my hobby now. It was in great shape when I bought it, but I've done almost everything myself except paint. I did a bottom up engine rebuild a few years ago.
It's not a show car, I drive it almost every day from May to October. I found the optional hardtop about ten years ago and it goes on in September and comes off in June. The next thousand bucks will go into a new interior that my ass has worn pretty badly.




My soul mate and DUer Samplegirl has a TR4 that's nicer than mine. She lets me work on it. haha



Glamrock

(11,938 posts)
22. They are both just sick!
Sun Aug 4, 2024, 11:47 AM
Aug 2024

Do you two go to the Mad Dogs and Englishmen event? If memory serves your in Michigan?

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