Tool History
Knock Off Spinner Tool History
1966 Lotus Elan Coupe. 2003
Fully Restored.
Not knowing much about my first Lotus, and after being restored, at a West Coast Lotus event, while drive around Lake Tahoe. A rear wheel had loosened. No hammer?? Had to use a 2+4 and a bolder to tighten the spinner.
Thinking there has got a better way than beating on my car with a hammer. My first attempt to eliminate the need to use a hammer, I purchased the only tool I could find, and it bent the tips off and failed. I had a museum wall of failures trying to get the tool’s angles with a protective covering. To finally finishing a steel Lotus Elan, knock off tool without using a hammer.
I made the tool for myself and for other Elan guys. Later, others needing a tool to fit on the two eared type spinners. I was finally able to make a two-ear steel tool that fit both the 42 size and a 52 size for Jaguars. It turned out to be too expensive.
They fit 2 ear 42 size, 52 size Jaguars, ear-less Jaguars, Ferrari 3 ear, Ferrari two ear, and the Cobra/GT40 3 ear Kits.
Here are many different pictures of spinners that use 2 eared 42 size type spinners. There many other cars that use the same type spinners.
Borrani 2 ear and 3 ear spinners that fit Ferrari, Masarati, Lamborghini, Jaguar 2 ear and Jaguar ear-less spinners and finally Cobras and GT40 three eared spinners. I no longer make the Lotus Elan three eared spinners. John at R.D. Enterprises has continued to make my Elan tools.
