This website is about the life and times of our Caterham 7. We are Chris and Maggie Alston and we've been members of the
Caterham & 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 75,600 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.
In 2021, after 20 years of touring abroad, we purchased a Mazda MX5 to retire the Caterham from touring duties and to develop
it more for competition use.
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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
LEGO®  
Other Activities  
MX5  
About Us  
This website was last updated on 23 January 2023                    
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