Friends Restore Lotus for Ailing Online Pal.

By Anita in Auto & Transportation on Jul 18, 2007 at 5:49 pm

Simon Pritchard had just started an 18-month, Â£25,000 (~$50,000) restoration of a 25 year old Lotus Esprit when he was hospitalized due to multiple mini strokes. Amazingly, when fellow members of an online car enthusiast forum heard of Simon’s plight, they decided to come together and surprise him by restoring the car in secret.

With the help of hundreds of people, the car was completely restored in only five weeks, and Simon had the surprise of his life when finally reunited with the Lotus. Link [BBC News]

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Great White Snark
Jul 18th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
That was really cool of those guys. Know what would have been cooler? A restoration of any car besides a Lotus Esprit.
meg
Jul 19th, 2007 at 2:03 am
isn’t there something, you know, productive they could have done with that money?
Coyote
Jul 19th, 2007 at 7:59 am
So the guy goes into the hospital for “several mini-strokes” so his friends decide the best thing to would be to surprise him?
Solo
Jul 19th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
- It’s still amazing that a whole bunch of people decided to do something nice, out of the blue, for a fellow with health issues.

- Lotus Esprit are one of the coolest cars around ever.

- If we dedicated all of our resources at productive things, there would be no movies, no internet, no neatorama, no vacation, no pets, no laugh, no love and no comments on blogs.
Anita
Jul 19th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Neatorama isn’t productive?
Will
Jul 19th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Doesn’t anyone else think that maybe putting someone who just suffered several mini-strokes behind the wheel of a high-powered sports car might not be the best idea?
Kimbers
Jul 20th, 2007 at 2:13 am
But being a Lotus Esprit enthusiast site, Mr Great White, maybe it was appropriate?

Meg, Maybe the Â£6500 we raised for Macmillan last year on the same site?

The big man also has Reiters Syndrome, so no, there was nothing more appropriate than helping someone and showing them that there are people that care.

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