This website is mainly about the life and times of our Caterham 7. We are Chris and Maggie Alston and we've been members of the
Lotus 7 Club of Great Britain since March 1998. It all started in February 1998 when Maggie hired a 7 for my birthday.
The car was first registered on 1 January 1993 and when we purchased it on 6 February 1999 we became it's 4th owners.
It was a standard 1700 Supersprint when we purchased it, but over the years it has been upgraded to a higher specification.
Between October 2007 and May 2008 a major rebuild was undertaken. A further upgrade became necessary
after the x/flow engine 'let go' in July 2010 whilst touring in Andorra and subsequently over the winter of 2010/11 a
Raceline Zetec engine was installed. In the following winter 2011/12 the fuel system was upgraded
from Weber DCOE 40s to Jenvey throttle bodies. In 2015 it was rebuilt again following an RTC in Switzerland.
The 7 has clocked up over 74,000 miles since it's been in our possession and over half of those miles have been
in France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and Andorra.
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History of the 7
L7C Activities
Low Flying
Track Days
Sprinting & Hillclimbing
Touring
Technical Data
Chronology
Rebuild
Zetec
Jenvey/Emerald
Swiss RTC
What they said...
Seven Paraphernalia
Motorsport
Models
Books
Miscellaneous
This website was last updated on 2nd June 2019
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