SUNBEAM LOTUS OWNERS’ CLUB COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Honorary President: Paul White (Former Talbot Team Manager and winning co-driver on the 1980 Lombard RAC Rally)
Chairman: Perry C. Antoniou 07802 600 616 chairman@sunbeamlotus.com
/ Archivist / PR Liaison: Graeme Lawton 0771 949 0657 historian@sunbeamlotus.com
Membership Secretary membership@sunbeamlotus.com
Secretary: Doug Field 0208 295 1815 secretary@sunbeamlotus.com
Regalia: regalia@sunbeamlotus.com
Events Secretary: Mark Higman events@sunbeamlotus.com
Parts: Richard Blackburn parts@sunbeamlotus.com
Technical Secretary: Mike Trim technical@sunbeamlotus.com
ARCC Representative: Richard Blackburn parts@sunbeamlotus.com
Valuations Officier/Web: Kieron Buckingham webmaster@sunbeamlotus.com
Magazine: Angela Pittas editor@sunbeamlotus.com
Competitions Secretary: Jez Moxon competitions@sunbeamlotus.com
Social Media Secretary Chris Edwards social@sunbeamlotus.com
CHAT CHAIRMAN’S
WELCOME ALL TO THE LATEST EDITION OF THE CLUB MAGAZINE.
Ihnfortunately, we have to report the very sad loss of Dave Merlane, our muchrespected Membership Secretary and Treasurer. Most of you had met Dave in person and those who hadn’t have had some form of contact with him, even if only to join the club. I have written a personal & club obituary in replacement for his usual magazine piece about membership and monies.
Needless to say, the committee is very upset and consider ourselves a SLOC family and that this is a huge loss to the club. His funeral was a few days before I wrote this and we had a full house of attendees along with his family and friends. We laughed, we cried, we remembered a unique man whom we held at very high esteem.
With what was going on with Dave, I had to instigate “plan B” with regards to looking after the membership. I ran “plan B” past Dave on
the way home from the AGM and he agreed. After all, the club came first in both of our eyes. Dave didn’t want years of effort to go to waste and he knew I would be able to handle it.
Many years prior, I was approached by a fellow club committee member who had written a software platform for clubs like ours in order to make looking after membership records and payments an easier task. Obviously, being new on the committee, I would never tread on anyone’s toes, so I put his business card
in the back of my SLOC notebook, with the thought of “God forbid if anything happens to Dave, this would be the only solution”. The time had come, so I have spent the past couple of months setting up our new CROSSMEMBER platform with help from Dave. I went and saw Dave in hospital a couple of times, where he had instructed his daughters to bring all his club stuff to handover. So, for the moment, I am acting Membership Secretary & Treasurer. Hopefully we will be able to get someone on the committee to take on the roles…….hint hint hint!
In the meantime, we also had to get on with National Day (part 2) after the sudden cancellation of Chatsworth House and the various ongoing committee dealings, so its fair to say, I’ve not managed to get on with finishing my own car. I have been at my workshop for a few hours here and there, but spent most of the time sorting out Dave’s club records… thousands of pages of stuff. I have already filled my Saab Estate including front seat to the full and I’ve still got two more trips!
National Day at Trentham Gardens went ahead as planned with a good attendance and a great position at the event. The club won an award as did one of our members, Adrian Alderson. All we have left to finish planning for 2025 now is the NEC show in November. It just won’t be the same without waiting for Dave’s
quarter of a million-mile Volvo turning up with the club gear!
NATIONAL DAY for 2026 is already booked – SATURDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2026 – so you have no reason not to attend, you know well in advance, with or WITHOUT a Sunbeam Lotus. This event will include Track Action if you want it!
More information about CROSSMEMBER and what you need to do is also in this magazine. Finally, I know there 40 or so members who are still paying with their own STANDING ORDER, some of which are not even paying the correct amount of £30. The club is no longer able to accept standing order payments. They take up too much time and bank costs to us. Please cancel your Standing Orders and setup any other form of payment (including Direct Debits) as soon as you can. Those of you who are still paying £18, £20, £22, £25 & £28 will have their membership now expire pro-rata less than 12 months and you will be getting renewal reminders to annoy you to do the right thing. If anything, we’ve lost Dave Merlane, so at least help us to help you run your club efficiently.
PERRY C. ANTONIOU CHAIRMAN – MEMBER NO. 750
Dave
MERLANE
10th March 1948 –31st August 2025
For those members who had met Dave, no one could ever say a negative word about him or the way he looked after the club and our members. Dave was one unique individual who was lucky enough to retire at 54 years old in 2002 (when I had just met him and bought my own Sunbeam Lotus) and spend the next 23 years of his very active life not only running SLOC, but tearing round tracks in his Lotus Elan (with me in chase in whatever I had turned up with), playing Bass Guitar in several Soul Bands at the weekends (think of “The Commitments”) and spending all of the rest of his time with his lovely daughters & wonderful grandchildren. Oh, and I nearly forgot, his beloved Spurs that Dave had never missed a home game since he was 12 years old.
Dave originally owned a Sunbeam Lotus when the club was part of the Lotus Sunbeam Register as part of Club Lotus when it was first recognised in 1980. The Lotus Sunbeam Register continued to be active and part of Club Lotus up until early 1991 when it’s then owner, Graham Arnold, suggested to the members that they might be able to better support the future of the car if they formed a totally separate owners’ club. In May 1991, a meeting of the members of the Lotus Sunbeam
Register took place at Castle Combe and it was unanimously agreed that they would form an owners’ club, independent of Club Lotus. It was agreed that Barry Rourke would be the Club Chairman, Graham O’Driscoll would be the Club Secretary and the club would be called The Sunbeam Lotus Owners’ Club (SLOC). A number of other register members indicated their willingness to join the SLOC committee, one being our own Dave Merlane. This decision was fully supported by Graham Arnold on behalf of Club Lotus. The first simple A4 newsletter appeared soon after this (actually edited by Dave) and this quickly evolved into the A5 format still used
today by SLOC, with Graham O’Driscoll designing a logo and cover layout. So, since Dave’s involvement in 1983 as a car owner, that’s 42 years of pure dedication to us.
In 2017, at our AGM at Santa Pod, midway through Dave’s first chemotherapy treatment, the committee awarded him a little something as a thank you for 25 years of being on the actual club committee by way of a photo frame with a copy of the first edition of OPPOSITE LOC, this very club magazine, which was edited by Dave himself in the summer of 1992.
Dave was also awarded the Julia Higman Trophy. A very special recognition for those who have gone beyond the call of duty to support the club and its members. We had to keep this a secret and managed to do so, eventually handing this to Dave at the September Mystery Tour in Kent in 2024. That was the last time Dave and I spent time in a car together forgetting how old we actually were and breaking some of the rules of the highway code.
Putting the club aside, I met Dave in May 2002. We were at a club photo shoot and my wife was calling my mobile. My ringtone was “I’m Coming Home Baby” by Mel Torme. The moment he heard the ringtone, he was stumped, looking at me perplexed. Not the usual ringtone he expected to hear from a then 34-year-old at the time. Dave asked how I knew that song. It turned out Dave and I both shared now, two common interests, soul music and cars. I’m not a Spurs supporter, so Dave always said to me “two out of three isn’t bad”. As I got to know Dave better, it turned out he used to frequent the clubs of the West End & Soho when he was a young man, to see some of the great rock & roll
and soul singers he adored. Two particular clubs being the Heaven & Hell Lounge and the 2i’s Lounge where my own father worked both as a doorman & minder looking after the music acts that would perform at these shady places. Had Dave ever met my father? Maybe or maybe not, we will never know? But one thing for sure, is that Dave was there and so was my dad. For this I felt we had a special bond. His daughters are the same ages either side of me and I was almost like a missing son. He was also like a temporary replacement father for me.
Dave first noticed something wasn’t right at the NEC setup in November 2016 and confided in me that day. A few weeks later and he confirmed what we assumed was wrong and that the only people he was telling was myself and his daughters. We held a committee meeting soon after in January 2017 where Dave was unable to attend as he was midway through chemo and the onus was left to me to let the committee know of Dave’s health issues. As you can imagine, the chaps were distraught. But as Dave always said to me, the club and members come first, so keep it going whatever. Treatment worked first time round and Dave got back to normal by NEC setup in November 2017. However, a few years later and Dave is struck down not once, not twice, but three times. He fought it all the way. Most of you who had seen him would never have known.
He told me at the end of April this year that nothing was curative and that trying to extend his life was the best option. I had travelled
with him to the AGM in May where he stood down from the committee but made it clear that there would be a handover period for as long as it needed to be. Within a few weeks, things got worse. Dave had been unwell for several weeks and in Kettering General since June and doctors were doing everything that they could to get him home. Alas, he never got out of there.
Whilst he was in hospital, we were in touch on WhatsApp daily. Even up to a few days before we lost Dave, I was exchanging soul music links on WhatsApp. He told me once that as a teenager he was in love with Eartha Kitt, so I got AI to give me an image of Eartha Kitt as a Nurse and I sent that to him.
The last I heard from Dave, he was listening to the Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on Radio 2 around 8pm on the Saturday Night 30th August, pressuring me to listen to it which I already was! The last Soul Tune we listened together was Brothers on the Slide by Cymande from 1974 – I would have been 6 years old. He soon passed after that the following morning. He did not suffer, and deservedly so.
So, Dave Merlane was a person who was admired and held in high esteem by the best part of 350 plus strangers when it came to the club, most of whom would never meet him. His dedication to all he enjoyed was second to none. The effort he put into running the membership and monies goes without saying. The respect he got from others is commendable and one can wish for a fraction of that kind or respect.
I will remember many things I learned from
Dave Merlane. Marriage is grand and divorce is a hundred grand. The Beatles were shit and the Hollies were brilliant. Jet Harris & Tony Meehan were the real Shadows. And one can never have too many Vintage Rosewood Board Fender Stratocaster Candy Apple Red guitars in their parlour.
His final wishes were simple – no black at his funeral. I had to endure the feeling of being tampered with by going into the Spurs shop and buying a Spurs shirt to wear at his send off. Not that I am an avid football supporter, but every North London Greek Cypriot likes to see Arsenal win. Out of respect, I wore a Spurs Shirt.
God Speed Dave Merlane – Rest in Peace. Will see you in the next life showing us all how it should be lived again.
As for money & membership matters, the club finances are healthy with membership currently sitting at our usual 350 plus members.
Perry C. Antoniou Chairman
Member no. 750 September 2025
AS HARD AS IT HAS BEEN SINCE THE LOSS OF DAVE MERLANE, WE HAVE REPLACED HIM WITH A SOFTWARE PLATFORM!
Joking aside, the club needs to continue seamlessly and with hopefully somebody wanting at some point to step up to the task of looking after membership matters, our only choice was to follow the dozens of other classic car clubs and use CROSSMEMBER. Designed by a retired software engineer who is a Membership Secretary for another classic car club (and a hell of a lot larger than ours), who had already approached me many years ago, it was our only option.
All members have the option to login to their membership record, make any changes, setup annual payments by various methods and generally makes everything an all-round easier task looking after you all.
Cheques can still be sent and details of the address to send to are on your membership record. You can pay by a multitude of other methods as well.
GO CARDLESS to setup a Direct Debit.
STRIPE to make direct Debit or Credit Card Payments. Or reliable old PayPal which offers many of the same payment options.
don’t tell us you haven’t got one, every industry, product and service in the UK and outside is now reliant on being able to respond or contact you by email. Even for the goddamn BBC TV licence… 1.
YOU MUST HAVE A WORKING EMAIL ADDRESS
2.
EXISTING STANDING ORDERS MUST BE CANCELLED
there is no way we can check our bank statements daily to see if a Standing Order has come in. And when we do check, it’s unfair for us to spend our personal time to go into an automated membership record to update that payment is up to date manually. To make things worse, there are 40 plus members still paying £18, £20, £22, £25 & £28 membership when it’s been £30 for a while now.
We will shortly be adding these links below to our Club Forum & Facebook pages so that members can easily deal with their membership record & payments. This will also allow New Joiners instant club access.
WHEN YOU GET AN EMAIL THAT IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN AND YOU CAN ALSO SETUP A REGULAR PAYMENT
https://crossmember.co.uk/find-member/?club=sloc
HISTORICAL CORNER
RuLet me first add a brief note on the loss of Dave Merlane, whom I wrote about last time as he stood down from the committee; I specifically wanted those words to be read by Dave and it is a great comfort that he did so, and sent me his appreciation for them. Please bear with us as we navigate our way without him.
I finally managed to get both MAC and Polly over to The Motorist (to the east of Leeds, near the A1) for their Rally Legends day in July, having failed a couple of times when MAC wasn’t quite ready for it. I had been allocated parking spaces by the restaurant as I had booked in with the organisers, and Andy Wilson brought his Sunbeam for a day out and we were both delighted when event host
Paul Woodford spotted him and beckoned him to come and park next to MAC. Having missed out on the annual Moffat trip this year due to attending a family wedding in Italy, I hadn’t seen Andy for a while so it was great to catch up, and it was lovely to have a road car to complement my two. They all enjoyed a fair amount of interest, and Andy was interviewed by Paul over the PA system (as was I – Paul is very enthusiastic about Sunbeams and the minutiae of old rallying). It was a good day of chatting and looking at cars. The venue is great and easy to get to; if you haven’t been before, you should pop along – they hold rallythemed events two or three times a year plus other days such as for Hot Hatches would be good for Sunbeams.
My blue car has been off the road since losing power on the way home from the NEC in March; I eventually managed to diagnose a loss of compression on cylinder three, having spent time checking over the ignition side of things first. So the engine is currently with Phil Davison to fix that (hole in one of the exhaust valves…) and fit a new set of pistons that I should have stumped up for when the engine was rebuilt last time (to be fair, it has motored us around the UK for almost 20,000 miles over the past twelve years). I am missing having the car to drive, and Polly is currently not on road-legal tyres so MAC has been my main fix of Talbot-Lotus action for the summer. I have been returning the rally car to her historic state of late, by the way; little things like refitting an original set of wheels (oh, I have many of those but only the gravel wheels have tyres – original Michelins that Des O’Dell brought out of the factory with the car), reinstating the timeclock and stopwatch set-up (complete with illumination, in the process undoing screws that haven’t been touched since the early 1980s) and fitting a period intercom. I hope to re-fit the original Recaro seats next, as I don’t now anticipate
using the car in anger as such, and they really do make the car complete.
Going back to wheels, I was interested to weigh them while I was swapping over recently; although they were not the same size, it was still notable that the magnesium versions were about 3kg lighter than the regular alloy modern versions that I had been using. You might also be interesting in the fixing method of the original wheels; instead of using a Group 4 type of stud arrangement that has an in-built shoulder onto which the wheel bolt holes locate, Coventry cars used regular types of studs with tapered nuts but with a collar wound onto the thread. This provided the same benefit, as the wheel sits snug over the collar in the correct position while the nuts are tightened. You can see these in the photo taken while fitting them to my Sunbeam, using the tool that belonged to works transmission specialist Brian Wileman.
GRAEME LAWTON HISTORIAN.
IS YOUR CAR ‘KNOWN TO THE CLUB’?
This might sound like a daft question, as surely we know all of the cars that our members own? Well, you would be surprised! Of course, we know of all Sunbeam Lotus cars sold in the UK, and rather a lot of the export cars as well. This knowledge comes in many varying degrees; firstly by chassis number from factory records, then added to with information provided by an owner, then by information gleaned from other sources such as seeing a car or being sent info by previous owners or members who have seen a car.
For the UK market cars, we have registration numbers for nearly all of them, so about eleven hundred cars. About forty elude us; these might be cars that were scrapped* early in their life and deleted from the database when records were dealt with differently between local offices, or they might be among a number of cars whose VIN was recorded incorrectly (a digit missing, for example) and the vehicles themselves disappeared long ago; in such cases, we are just not able to identify them now unless someone pops up with some info.
* Until not that long ago, a scrapped car would show up on DVLA’s database using their vehicle enquiry service but it no longer does. It will still appear on an HPI check, however. (I have just checked this myself to be sure of the current situation.) In addition, there are cars that we know have been scrapped but have never been notified to DVLA; these still appear on the live database.
With these, there is always the danger that some unscrupulous soul could use the identity to resurrect a car that no longer exists, and is partly why we have always been careful with information and have never published chassis numbers. It does seem prevalent for cars at auction to have these details made public, though.
We were contacted by the DVLA at the beginning of last year to help them with a case where someone had applied for a V5 for a Sunbeam Lotus; they had a bodyshell with VIN stamping visible but the car also still existed with someone else, complete with V5 and chassis tags and was a complete car. It seems that the car had been rebodied at some point and the old ‘shell had been used in competition; it goes to show how tricky it can be when this kind of thing happens and the original identity markings are not removed. We know of other competition cars where similar has happened, and of a ‘discarded’ road car body that still shows original VIN stamping even though it no longer has a claim to the identity. We will watch what happens to that with keen interest.
Anyway, I am perhaps digressing; what I was aiming for in this set of scribbles was to ask our members to check what information you have provided us with. Do we know about (all) the Sunbeam Lotus that you own? I know for sure that there are some cars owned by members that do not appear on our membership database. This might simply be because you have bought it since joining and are just happy to pay the renewal fee
without sending any updates. It is very useful to know, however. For one, just knowing what cars are owned by our membership group; then it can be helpful to be able to find a car for a particular purpose, perhaps a magazine article or an event (both of which I have used our database to find cars for this year). With our new membership platform, you can now take ownership of the data that we hold, so please do have a look at how to do this and then add, delete or update your vehicle details as appropriate. Your data is safe.
In addition to this, we would love to have photographs of every car within our membership on file; do we have one of yours? Again, I know plenty of your cars that we have never seen, whether that’s just because you have never been to an event or because it has not been on the road (or it no longer exists), but having a photo
would be great, even a current picture of a project. Period photos showing the car in fine fettle (or otherwise) is always a winner, though! I keep a schedule of cars that have photos on file, and I will get around to contacting those of you missing from this, although it would be easier for you to follow up this plea and contact me! Pictures will be recorded with copyright owners names; we do sometimes use these in the magazine but we will check with you at the time if we don’t discuss this upon receipt.
I hope to report on an influx of info and pictures next time, and always enjoy discussing these great cars and ownership of them, so don’t be afraid to get in touch.
GRAEME LAWTON HISTORIAN.
Our new subtle design allows the wearer to show their love of all things Sunbeam Lotus without shouting about it. We have a limited selection in stock but can have other sizes and colours made to order, including in men’s sizes. £25 plus postage.
3.50
BASEBALL HAT
UMBRELLA:
PIN BADGE: 1” Diameter
WOOLLY HAT: take the club with you on your chilly winter drive with this comfy black beany hat with embroidery. With 3M Thinsulate to keep your noggin warm! £15 plus postage. If
Sunbeam
Sunbeam Lotus MUGS (SLOC2)
LATEST PARTS
IGNITION COOLING
CABLES
FUEL
GASKETS & SEALS
MISCELLANEOUS
CORRECT LICENSED (BY LOTUS) CLUB STRIPES A
“SUBDUED STIPPLE” FINISH.
The club has always maintained that new stripes fitted to a Sunbeam Lotus must be the same as the originals supplied when the car was new. There just seems to be a simply unique finish, look and feel about it.
However, the product that is supplied only by 3M USA now, is continually and significantly increasing in price each time we purchase a single roll which is enough to make 12 sets, of which we lose 2 in the process due to the difficulty in screen printing the licensed Lotus logo and the thickness of the material on the cutting bed. The forthcoming price being £450 plus shipping per set!
The material is unique with what the 3M representative I met called a “SUBDUED STIPPLE” finish and whilst we still call it a Vinyl product, it is not the same as the modern-day vinyl products easily and cheaply available to change the colour of your Lamborghini to Kermit the Frog Green. It is in fact far from it and is a superior and longer lasting product and we assumed that we were one of a few people still using it. We are not! With some huge industry namedropping he mentioned.
The high cost of manufacturing the material is due to the fact that EU regulations prohibit the content that is used in the making process as it is considered hazardous. It is now only made in the USA where manufacturing anything that is bad for you is considered good for them. We have tried dozens of different options of Vinyl with no success.
So, for the moment, we are still only going to supply the correct product, because frankly, nothing else looks correct. This does not affect special colours away from SILVER or BLACK.
Perry C. Antoniou Chairman – Member
no. 750
Courtesy of AI - A “subdued stipple” refers to a surface texture created by a pattern of small dots or dabs, but executed in a subtle, muted, or understated way. The term combines “stipple” (a finishing technique) with “subdued” (a descriptor for its appearance).
“IT’S
EVENTS
LIFE JIM; BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT”
We had a few glitches with National Day 2025. Some were most definitely my fault, and the most annoying ones were the issues I thought I’d nipped in the bud; but other people hadn’t done their bit, and so made me look a right Knobber.
However, as anyone who has ever organised an outdoor event will tell you; the weather is a huge factor. You can plan to the enth degree, and feel confident in that you’ve covered every possibility that’s within your control. BUT, if the weather is lovely; even a balls-up, can become a huge success.
Unfortunately, for those that made the effort to prepare. National Day Chatsworth House, was cancelled at the very last minute, due to a “threat to life” weather warning. And, for those that made the effort to attend, National Day (Take Two) Trentham Gardens was at best windy, chilly, drab and wet. Our privileged and priority elevated position overlooking the lake should have been amazing. But the weather determined otherwise.
It’s always been my sole intention to try and cajole; insult and/or embarrass more members in to attending SLOC events, and so I very much hope you’ll understand how disappointed; annoyed and frustrated I am at not being able to achieve this, during my short time as Events. It’s NOT self-pity; or “poor old Higgy”. It’s very much my inability, and failure in not being able to convey my love and enthusiasm for Sunbeam Lotus and SLOC to more than 30 members.
It’s often said to me that I’m so lucky to be my
own boss. Do what you like. Turn in to work when it suits. Take holiday when you feel like it. On the odd weekend, that may be true. But for the other 360 ish days of the year……work; employee holidays, dentists, doctors and their unexpected family commitments determine what’s possible.
I never like to feel I’m attending a funeral thinking; “I wish I’d done more when they were alive.” So, whilst it’s a marque of respect; and I can’t help but blub; they can be an internal struggle with guilt….and any efforts I made to visit Dave in his last few weeks were just too late and not possible.
And so, after a personally disappointing National Day. It was so annoying that I wasn’t going to be able to attend Dave’s funeral at 3pm on Wednesday 17th September. Our Heathrow night driver was on holiday that week, and I was covering his job!!! In truth, Dave was a friend and no more. He loved his daughters; guitars; Spurs; his Elan and SLOC…..but I didn’t know too much more. To me, Dave was always a kind; calm and thoughtful gentleman, who took the time to attend my late wife’s funeral and speak so eloquently on behalf of SLOC. His enduring will to succeed and do things right was infectious and you wanted to help and support him as best you could.
No one could have been more conscientious Dave. Thank you.
Mark Higman SLOC950
P.S. Next years National will be at Curborough on Saturday 12th September 2026.
SLOC PARTS
STRIPES
Please contact David Moodie at
DEALER STICKERS for your rear hatch glass
How about some originality? We can now replicate all your rear window dealer stickers. We have done four so far and we can do any others depedant on demand. Let us know if you want one of the existing ones or if you would like us to do one for you that we don’t already have.
These parcels shelves include the hinge pins but not the support strings. If required, we can supply a drawing for the support strings.
AVAILABLE from SLOC
WORKS RALLY DECALS
These are available from Graeme Lawton. Please contact him directly; his details are inside the front cover.
S1 TALBOT BADGE
New bonnet badges are available and a FREE Club Tax Disc Holder Contact chairman@sunbeamlotus.com or give Perry a call one evening
Period Tax Disc
with whatever vehicle details you want. You can even choose your own postmark!
£10 will get you 6 discs (all the same) and a FREE Club Tax Disc Holder CONTACT chairman@sunbeamlotus.com
SEAT FABRIC
The club has a supply of the correct fabric for Series 1 and Series 2 cars. This fabric is available to club members
The fabric is durable, colourfast and fire resistant and have all the necessary approvals, and will not fade, slip or tear.
UNDER BONNET DECALS
The club now has the following under-bonnet decals in stock
ENGINE OIL LEVEL
The engine oil level decal for the standard Airbox (both S1 & S2)
. SERIES 2:
SERIES 1:
VARIOUS WINDOW CLING DECALS
MUD FLAP DECALS
In stock, replacement decals in a hard-wearing vinyl (slightly different finish to originals but the same size, shape and design). Also suitable for a tool box!
REFURBISHED S2 HEADLIGHT AVAILABLE
They look like new and will transform the tired and probable MOT failure headlights that all S2 cars have by now. They are sold on an exchange basis, we can tell you how to separate the glass from the shell and you can exchange your tired and rusty shells yourself. We supply clear and concise instructions on how to dismantle the lights along with guidance as to the correct glass sealer you would need to put them together. Let’s face it, we own a lotus Sunbeam, so most of us have the capability to do the upgrade ourselves. We would need to do them in batches of at least a dozen to keep the price we have. Get in touch with Richard Blackburn and grab yourself a pair.
CLUB USED PARTS
GENERAL INFO
THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS are pleased to hear from any members who need help or advice or simply want a chat, but please bear in mind that we have jobs and busy lives away from the club, are sometimes away from home and some have young families; all calls should be made before 9pm.
If the person that you want is not in when you call, please ring again where possible rather than asking for a call back. If you do leave a message on an answer ‘phone remember to include your name, membership number and time/date of the call, and say what you were calling about. It will save time on the second call if the committee member knows what to expect and can be prepared for the next contact. If you are unable to contact the person by telephone, try sending an e-mail (or letter!) or try another committee member. Please ALWAYS include your name and membership number in the subject line of any e-mail you send to the committee; failure to do so may result in the message being deleted without being read,
due to problems with spam and virus e-mails.
Unfortunately, genuine messages are still caught by spam filters so if you do not receive a reply within a week, please send your message again. Thank you for your co-operation.
The SLOC does not necessarily agree with the opinions expressed in this magazine. The club committee members, officials of the SLOC and contributors can not be held responsible for any loss, injury or damage alleged to have been caused by following/responding to advice or advertisements in this publication (including accompanying leaflets). All advertisements are published in good faith and the club, committee members and officials of the SLOC can not be held responsible for any financial loss arising out of any subsequent transactions.
The editor reserves the right to edit any letters and/or articles submitted.
Copyright ownership of all text submitted shall pass to SLOC unless by alternative arrangement.
