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However, I kept finding myself goggling "Lotus Europa" and one day about 3 years ago my wife said, "You're always looking a the Europa, why don't you just get one". I started looking for one that day. In July of 2007 I purchased a 1974 Europa Special JPS and it is everything I hoped for and more. I purchased it from a guy that owned it for 31 years. Everything works and it needed nothing. What most people don't know about these cars is that if you find a good one that has been taken care of, they can be very reliable. There are a lot of upgrades that owners came up with over the years to improve the electrical issues and many of the other stigmas that give these cars a bad name. There is a fantastic Europa specific web site that is a tremendous help. I've read the archives and found many, many tricks and upgrades to improve the reliability issues. When I went back to my car to do these upgrades, every single one of them had already been done.