Lotus Colorado held their 2012 Christmas party Saturday night at Club Auto. It was a pot luck, lots of good food, lots of good conversation, not much more to add about that.

Club Auto bills itself as the premier collector car storage and clubhouse facility in the Denver metro area. They have what I’d have to call a showroom area and a warehouse area. Also in the facility is a high-end car detailing business and perhaps an exotic car rental business.

The more notable cars are in the showroom area. On one end are the older cars – mid-20’s Buicks and Rolls Royces. At the other end are a few Indy cars. In between is a variety of cars – Lotuses, Porsches, a Lamborghini, and so on. The most notable here is a Porsche Spyder 550 I’m told has a serial number only one off from James Dean’s car. Moving from the showroom to the warehouse you find a couple Ferraris and some classic Fiats and Fords and a gull-wing Mercedes.

Guests to the party who chose to drive their Lotuses were invited to park in the warehouse. There were only two of us brave enough to do so. The weather forecast was for snow. None had fallen yet, and the weather guy I watched said none was likely to fall before the wee hours of the morning. He was wrong – I drove the Elise home in the snow. It wasn’t cold enough yet to stack up on the streets, though, so it wasn’t a problem.

The warehouse was full of an odd assortment of vehicles. There was a nice early 70’s Lincoln Continental with a panorama roof, a couple of older Porsche 911’s, a Mazda RX-7 with very wide fenders and a huge wing on the back. There were also a surprisingly large number of trucks – Ford F-350’s and such. Not what I think of when I think “collector car storage”.

Sorry for the crappy photos, these were taken with the cell phone.