Hi Guys,
If you want to ad further interest to this Lotus 7 thread you might research the left hand drive 907 engined one off car Steels were developing with the idea of producing a series of them for export to USA. It had a very nice looking Lotus 4 speed gearbox housing which used Morris Marina internals that kept stripping teeth off the gears! The chassis was a widened 7 unit. The vehicle was purchased from Steeles by a gent from Ashburton when Steeles abandoned the project due to the amount of red tape involved.
and was used for racing ocaisionally at events like the "Country Gents" at Wigram and he probably ran it at Levels in Timaru and maybe Ruapuna.
If anybody is interested there are some other details relating to this vehicle which could be interesting.
PK.