ah ça... je suis déjà méchamment piqué.
sans compter effectivement l'intérêt particulier de ce modèle...
Extrait du livre "officiel" : "From Conception to CSR" (je dis officiel car il est vendu chez Caterham et semble présenté comme LE livre de la Seven (les pros infirmeront si besoin, pas de souci
)
"The Vauxhall-engined HPC was launched at the newly acquired unit of Dartford in August 1990 with factory tours and speeches from Graham Nearn and Vauxhall's parts director, Peter Lord (a Caterham Supersprint owner himself). Lord said :
"We see the association with Caterham as extremely positive, since they are the acknowledged leaders in their specialist field. Jez Coates and his team must take credit for the vehicule as it stands here today. Having driven it, I have to say the results are stunning".
Later, on August 1, 1993, he put his money where his mouth was and bought the very first low-volum type-approved Vauxhall HPC injection Seven.
Légende de la photo, page 85 :
"Fully-built Caterhams came on stream in 1993 and Peter Lord of Vauxhall Parts (standing with Graham Nearn) took delivery of the first fully-built Vauxhall HPC. Caterham's penchant for Vauxhalls can be seen from the collection : Lotus Carlton (Jez Coates), Senator (Graham Nearn), Carlton Estate (David Wkefield) and Calibra Turbo (Andy Noble).
Une des photos de la série prise à l'époque, transmise par l'ancien propriétaire, qui l'avait acheté l'an dernier en seconde main à Peter Lord :
à gauche : Graham NEARN et à droite, le premier propriétaire, Peter LORD, à l'époque directeur de Vauxhall parts, fournisseur des moteurs de ce modèle et aujourd'hui en poste aux US au directoire de Général Motors.
Je vais tacher de voir s'il y a moyen de mettre la main sur d'autres photos de cette séance.J'ai quelques noms sans doute utiles dans le dossier.
pfff, c'est complètement incroyable tout ça, quel pied...
Un petit article concernant le premier propriétaire :
Peter D. Lord
Executive Director, Service Operations
General Motors Service and Parts Operations
Peter D. Lord was appointed executive director of Service Operations January 1999.
Lord began his career with Vauxhall Motors, the General Motors subsidiary in England, in 1970 as a student apprentice. In 1975, he was appointed product service engineer based at the Vauxhall Headquarters in Luton. In 1977 Lord was named district service manager and served in two districts, one in the southwest of England and the other in South Wales. He returned to Luton in 1983 when he was appointed service merchandising manager and shortly afterwards was named United Kingdom field service manager. In 1986 he moved back to the west of England as zone operations manager for the West Zone based in Bristol.
Lord was appointed service director for Vauxhall in 1988 and during this two year assignment established the first Customer Assistance and Technical Assistance Centers in Europe. Elected to the Board of Vauxhall in 1990 as director of Vauxhall Parts, Lord led the merger of Service and Parts to form Vauxhall Aftersales which has served as the organizational template for GMIO around the world.
Lord transferred to GMC Truck Division in Pontiac, Michigan in 1994 as general service manager. After Pontiac and GMC Divisions merged in 1996, he assumed responsibility for service for the combined division. In June 1997 he was appointed director of the Service Improvement Task Force.
A native of Salisbury, England, Lord graduated from Birmingham University in 1974, with a first class honors degree in mechanical engineering.
Source :
http://media.gm.com/us/spo/en/company/e ... ter_d.html
En tout cas encore un grand grand merci à tous ceux qui m'ont aidé et conseillé, notamment 
Erwan, Jean, Yvan, MC, Vincent, Nico, etc... 
Merci aussi à X-Flow (si si 
) pour la revue techniques Calibra
Et tous ceux qui de près ou de loin m'ont conduit à réaliser ce bel achat. 
