Close my friend, but I’m afraid you’re doing it quite wrong....

It’s a bit of dry old doorstopper though! I ended up just skimming the parts I needed for my dissertation...

Beat me to it. I think we can all agree that jacket is the real crime here.

You must have shot a lot of tigers..... ;)

Well let’s hope that’s what he is doing back there....

I think at the time (I am 44 so remember it reasonably well) there possibly wasn’t quite the lionisation of him that there is now. He had moments of brilliance (that 1987 Monaco win being one of them - the Lotus 97T was an overweight dog and had active suspension robbing it of a lot of it’s Honda power) but so did…

It also made it’s way into some Transits I think.

To classy by half for this place, my friend.

Yo mama so fat, when I did her I had to roll her in flour and go for the wet spot.

The best article ever written about the Lotus Carlton by the greatest motoring writer to have ever lived, Russell Bulgin.

NINE!!?? Jesus, don’t you have a television to watch in the evenings?

A lady doesn’t perspire. She glows.

Still goth royalty and doesn’t overdo the touring. Every time we turn up hoping it’ll be better *this* time.

Have you seen them recently though? Shockingly bad.

The thing I always loved about this is the fact he and Naomi (the helicopter pilot) are flirting even though she’s trying to kill him!

“Anything broken?” - Dr Holly Goodhead (!)

Otherwise known as the F4 Phantom approach. Anything will fly if you put big enough engines in it....

Little Elon....

There’s a big pile of great books about what went wrong in the US auto industry, and On a Clear Day... is right at the very top of it. Essential reading.

Theme tune by Mike Post.