The Lotus Chronicles: One man’s sordid tale of passion and madness while resurrecting a 40-year-dead Lotus Europa Twin Cam Special

I purchased this as a gift for a car guy and he loves it!

Entertaining read with lots of information regarding his pitfalls in the restoration

If you call yourself a true ban find fixer upper car enthusiast you need to read this book. There is no other quite like Rob for this type of fun and adventure. Buy it ! And his other books. You will never look at mechanical things the same again. Great read that’s also a FUN READ.

As a Lotus-junkie, I really enjoyed Rob's story of his Europa rebuild!

This is not a book about restoring a lotus Europa. It's a succession of whining and Facebook comments often berating the car and it designers when most of the issues the writer encountered were the result of his poor decision making and procrastination. We've all heard the apocryphal comments about Joe Lucas, Prince of Darkness and Lotus, Lots Of Trouble - Usually Serious, but the people that comment on FB are mostly incapable of screwing in a light bulb by themselves and this book is probably 80% FB remarks.To add insult to injury, my book started to fall apart the first time I opened it. This was a band new book when delivered. The binding glue is poor. By the time I diligently read and skipped my way through to the conclusion, most of the rear pages had come loose to the point I can't even comfortable donate it to anyone and frankly wouldn't anyway. Even the B&W pictures are poor quality. It's not work $25. I'd say more like $5.