...as an 18yr old starting at Lotus was a dream come true and over the next 19 years I would progress from shop floor trimmer to development trimmer, Trim engineer to Color & Trim in the Design Studio working on many clients show cars to Lotus Engineering projects and prototype cars .During this time I work with the very best in the business, Mike Kimberly,PeterStevens, Roger Becker, Ken Sears, Ollie Winterbottom ,Julien Thomson, Simon Cox, Richard Rackham and Rob Dickinson who our paths would cross years later ....
Lotus Elan Sprint finished production around the time I started at Lotus .....
'such a classic" ....
Position :Production Trimmer
The very first car I worked on for production, i was given the task to wrap vinyl around a piece of dowl wood mounted to a strip on metal .....the Elan door pull.
Position : Production Trimmer
The Lotus Europa strangely I think this is my Favorite Lotus with this interior I managed to achieve trimming every part on this interior.
Position: Production Trimmer
The first new production car that i had started for production perhaps not the best materials to use the dreaded Marcisite suede dash and panels, This was my first introduction to Nick Fulcher , what a mentor he was to be.....
Position: Production Trimmer
What a classic this has turned out to be, the unforgiverble Green cloth to work with and the striking Tartan ,the Nextel Facia, the chrome bright trim , this interior was a piece of work to get right and to have Nick Fulcher looking over my shoulder this was a production interior with many challengers.
Position:Production Trimmer
*Lotus Elan+2
*Lotus Europa Twin Cam
*Lotus Elite
*Lotus Elcat
*Lotus Esprit S1-S2-S3
*Lotus Essex Turbo Esprit
*Lotus Excel Rivira
*Lotus Excel.
*Lotus Esprit USA 40 yrs Commemoritive
*Lotus Esprit Race cars for USA series(Seat)
*Delorean
Lotus Carlton Omega(GM/Opel)
Engineering Instruction Release's
*Lotus Excel(Peter Stevens)
*Lotus Esprit S4 (Peter Stevens
*Corvette Indy (Tech Demo GM)
Concept Cars
*Isuzu 4200R
*Cadillac
*Chrysler
*Elan M200(Julian Thomson)
*Lotus Elan M100(Simon Cox)
Color & Trim-Specification of Paints and Interior materials.
Position :Development Trimmer
As develoment trim engineer on this project the interior for the iconic Essex turbo was to have the Gigario interior concept of Rouchsed leather at the time Rouse was not in any other production cars of the time and Lotus were pioneers of this technique .We had to develope a stitching strong enough to pull into the bolsters to create the now known Esprit interior.
Position :Development Trimmer
Position :Trim Engineer
Designer Peter Stevens
Position :Trim Engineer
One of many interiors done with the late Ollie Winterbottom, a limited edition interior and the first time of using leather suede at Lotus.
Position :Trim Engineer
With the Lotus Grand Prix Team ,Senna, Andretti, Peterson and Ickx what an honor it was to do a few of their race seats.
Developed the race seats for this Esprit race car for the American series in the states, worked with Roger Becker and Doc Bundy with these seats
It was cool to work on these Bond cars for the movies and always a blast when watching the movie to see my headrests behind Roger Moores head in some of the scenes... fun times
Development Trimmer of this Iconic Delorean as a Lotus Engineering project.
Worked in Belfast Northern Ireland at the Dunmurry factory.Supervising interior build.
Position :Development Trimmer
Trim engineer on this super fast Carlton Omega production car.
This GM/Opel car was at the time the fastest production car built.
Set up full production trim shop for the interiors.
Position :Trim Engineer
Position :Trim Engineer
Trim engineer on this GM project , the seat took alone 18 months to develop use latest materials such as anti static thread and carpets.Was part of this project early on and went to Turin Italy at the design studio with the clay model interior
2 of these Corvette Indys were built by Lotus engineering.
Designer Peter Stevens
Designer Interir Simon Cox
Trim engineer on this project ,the Lotus Elan M100 was the first interior to be productionised as a high volume car with, molded dash, door panels and molded carpets .Responsible for the Seat design and engineering
Concept Show car Elan M200
Designer Julian Thomson
Concept Show car of the Elan called the M200.This had an interior made of swimsuit materials.
Lotus Esprit Sport was the last Lotus I would engineer with Russel Carr and Peter Stevens.
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