MGMark has already spoken for me and yes the Elan and me will be up for this.  Thanks Debs, last year was great and it'll be fun again.

Mine too.  Arrived on Saturday, am in the process of distributing to the deserving few.

Mark,

I venture to suggest an Elan M100, you won't be surprised to know that I even know of a decent one for sale (not mine either)  .

There again I just read the final bit of your last post and he would be short of a couple of seats (did have a 4 seat elan for a few hours yesterday though  ).

James,

Congratulations and well done.  Once you have wheels, you will travel,,  all first cars have a certain style, no matter what they are, because they are and always will be the first as far as you're concerned.  Good luck in finding a vehicle.

I enjoyed it all apart from the minor bits that I didn't, but that's life and you take the good with the not so good. 

In no particular order of preference the best bits for me were:

The drive down and visiting Scrutineering for the first time in 15 years.

The first BBQ on Tuesday evening.

Meeting up with old mates some only seen once a year at Le Mans.

Welcoming like minded people to Le Mans for the first time.

The Audi/Peugeot ding dong for the pole at the end of Wednesday Qualifying.

Comparing how different cars appeared to perform accelertaing out of Arnage in the wet.

The Wedding Part II at DFH on Thursday.

The drive out from St Sat on Friday.

The DFH party on Friday.

The outstanding hospitality and welcome shown to us by Nick's French friend and his Belgian, Luxembourg and German friends at their traditional pre race BBQ in Parking Blanc Saturday Lunchtime.

The first bottle of Champagne after the race started.

Sat evening in the Stella Bar at Tertre Rouge (another first after all this time).

The steak onion and mushroom baguette, eaten at 0300 Sun Morning on the MB banking.

Seeing the end of the race despite the rain.

Reaching a hot shower and warm bed on Sunday night in Abbeville.

The reaction of my kids when I got home (armed with presents)

Nothing bad really (other than the thievery, but this is the positive thread) we knew it was going to rain so avoided getting too wet.

Have to do it all agin next year. 

Pleasure to meet you both and it was no trouble at all having you in our gang.  I'm pleased you were able to amke it to Le Mans and had such a good time.  Good luck with the test James and see you there next year.

Got back yesterday and this is first chance to post some important thanks.  Firstly to all who attended and made Le Mans what is has always been, bl**dy good fun.  The actions of a minority may well be a (growing?) problem  but the vast majority of people there seemed to have the same good natured and friendly approach that I have grown used to at Le Mans, like minded people having a good time.  More specifically thank you to Piglet and Keith for the invitation to the Wedding (PartII) on Thursday, a thoroughly enjoyable evening and an especial thanks to the DFH crew for both hosting this and for the awesome Friday night party absolute highlights of the week, Vinnies Vice were excellent and he can't half play that guitar a bit!  Finally to the crowd I usually go to Le Mans with MGMark, Nick, Rich etc good company all as ever, same time same place next year?!

  

I was part of the same group as MGMark and echo the sentiments of what was overall an excellent week trashed at the final turn by the scrotes.  I initially thought it was a Bleu Nord phenomena as the site is so open and quite frankly unbelieveably quiet in the wee small hours.  But I then got to thinking that Karting Nord, our home of the last few years is just as open if somewhat livelier. However it seems from the series of posts here that even sites that might seem a little more secure as they are less open and inside the circuit (MB) suffer the same rate of  theft as elsewhere.  In the past 15 years at Le Mans I have not been aware of a level of theft such as that reported this year, is it higher or is it just that it came closer this year?  All sensible precautions suggested here are valid and as I don't seriously expect positive action from the authorities, ACO or Police (in fairness it is difficult to see what they could realistically do as an effective security presence throughout would be prohibitively expensive) sensible precautions (with the added benefit of hindsight) and a degree of self policing seem the most appropriate way forward   

Termie, thanks for organising the drive out on Friday, I enjoyed it very much and is was good to see some of the glorious French countryside a little off the usual 'beaten track' for Le Mans visitors, even the weather stayed fine .  Please pass on my thanks and I'm sure those of everyone else to Herard and his staff for looking after us

Termitermitewith Canada Phil. Micra   Plus Paul with Mark - Mondial; Ernie Y - MGB GT; Peter - Rover 75 and possibly 3 x 'vettes
Ian?
Lawnmower Man
Robbo?
Perdu
MG MarkMGA
Steve Brown5 cars (all Cobras?)
Bob T
Gary Frogeye
Powermite3 cars
SmokieMarshall!!
Mal5 cars?
Elanman - Elan S2 and hopefully up to 4 more Elans and a Fiat Coupe
Papa Lazarou
Black Granny?

Thanks, same here, expect to be on site by mid afternoon Tuesday, possibly earlier depending on the drive down and whether we stop off at scrutineering.

Excellent design Rusty, well worth being Chilli Challenged (which I've done twice already)!

Although I doubt overheating will be an issue for either the cars or the occupants  

Now if I ever get to bring the old one you may then have a point 

Termie,

Thanks, I'll correct my post, my misunderstanding entirely.

Just posted details of this on Lotus Elan Central to drum up interest amongst the Elaners

http://lotuselancentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=115124&sid=7f0277673ec3f48cb949b8fc601394da#115124