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So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby simonbuk » Tue 23.01.2018, 00:38

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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby theelanman » Tue 23.01.2018, 09:29

me....and most of the old school on here.....Costas was a good lad...... :-D
just a bit bonkers.....
he always said it went like stink but wouldn't go round corners anymore......lol
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby GeoffSmith » Tue 23.01.2018, 09:30

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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby theelanman » Tue 23.01.2018, 09:33

it had a party piece too.........itd snort NoS like a rabid bull.......
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby John_W » Tue 23.01.2018, 10:15

Enright was very animated after a B-road blast with Costas at Donington one year.
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby Rambo » Tue 23.01.2018, 10:17

You've forgotten the "crapped my pants" emoji John :lol: :lol:

PS I think it was about Donny 2006/07 when Costas and his pal drove over from Athens ??
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby clemo » Tue 23.01.2018, 10:25

He would catch flies in his teeth as he was a rather large chap and his head would poke above the windscreen .
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby par » Tue 23.01.2018, 10:32

From the video he seems to have had a very "special" style of overtaking :shock:
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby Steve A » Tue 23.01.2018, 10:34

par wrote:From the video he seems to have had a very "special" style of overtaking :shock:

Some might even use the word dangerous :shock:
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby HJ2 » Tue 23.01.2018, 12:52

But in the comments he states that it is all 'directed' and that all the lotus drivers in the movie are in the conspiracy...
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby lotusflasherman » Tue 23.01.2018, 13:39

HJ2 wrote:But in the comments he states that it is all 'directed' and that all the lotus drivers in the movie are in the conspiracy...


Yes, but at 1:12 he accelerates up the inside of the camera car and then pulls out dangerously close to a green Focus that I'm pretty sure wasn't part of the conspiracy. Had that Focus slowed or braked it would have collected an Elan up the back. Pretty stupid in my opinion. Around 2:42 he reinforces my opinion ... and if he's supposed to have 437bhp why did the car in front 'leave him standing'??? :smt017
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby HJ2 » Tue 23.01.2018, 14:05

Directed or not, let's just say hi style is not my cuppa coffee, but boy is that car fast!
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby GeoffSmith » Tue 23.01.2018, 14:06

Par for the course in Athens allegedly… :roll:
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby Giniw » Tue 23.01.2018, 14:12

lotusflasherman wrote:and if he's supposed to have 437bhp why did the car in front 'leave him standing'??? :smt017
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It doesn't look that fast to me at 2:52 compared to the truck he is overtaking?
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby simonbuk » Tue 23.01.2018, 14:31

So is the car (and him) still alive ?!
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby theelanman » Tue 23.01.2018, 14:45

IIRC it all went a bit pear shaped when he lost family........ :(
he did try to sell it and I guess he probably did........
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby simonbuk » Tue 23.01.2018, 15:12

GeoffSmith wrote:http://forum.lotuselancentral.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=4863


Shame all the photos have disappeared and formatting gone a bit wrong.

Did he have the engine internals strengthened in anyway ?
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby GeoffSmith » Tue 23.01.2018, 15:40

Yep. And he used to have it re-built more often than I had a hot dinner.

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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby Rambo » Tue 23.01.2018, 18:53

From memory, Costas sold the Sh4rk to his pal who came over with him from Athens ??

There also used to be a video of him driving the Sh4rk around Athens with all the other boy racers. If you thought the video above was scary and dangerous you should have seen that one :shock: It's one reason why I've never hired a car in Athens
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Re: So Who Knew The Shark ?!

Postby GeoffSmith » Tue 23.01.2018, 19:19

Do you mean Giorgos Riambos?
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