jf Carset v1.2 with WheelSwap

Created by the GPL community as a whole,

Organized by Jon Ferraez & Stefan Magnusson of GPL The Addons

Well, many people were involved in this latest version but the main appreciation needs to go to

Stefan Magnusson for his awesome 3do editing skills to bring the cars up to the best graphics levels. You give us a lot of inspiration, thank you so much. A special word to Bruce M. Johnson you push the envelope with your quest for realism in the game, dunno how you do it. To the track creators I give the greatest respect, you people do so much to keep this game interesting.. believe it.

Be sure to visit the website in the upcoming weeks to check for new updates to jf Carset.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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* Installation Steps

* Installing Other Versions of the Cars

* Other Notes

* Credits for the Add-Ons

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INSTALLATION STEPS

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NOTE: If you have any previous version of jf Carset installed you will have to start fresh at

Step 1 as this version requires a fresh install to work, version 1.2 is not an update.

1. BACKUP YOUR FILES

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*IMPORTANT*

BACKUP your "\gpl\cars67" folder, and all of its sub-folders and files, NOW.

Make a copy. You may run into problems because your video card cannot handle all of the

car updates. If you think this is the case you need to try installing each of my cars

one by one until you find the problem car.

2. KEEP ONLY THE ORIGINAL "\cars67" FILES

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Make *SURE* the only files inside the "gpl\cars\cars67" folder are the original versions

of these files:

mirror.mip

\brabham\brabham.dat

\brm\brm.dat

\coventry\coventry.dat

\eagle\eagle.dat

\ferrari\ferrari.dat

\lotus\lotus.dat

\murasama\murasama.dat

That is all you need to have to begin the carset installation. If you have any other

files installed in those folders delete them now, or restore the original "\cars67\"

folder from the GPL CD-ROM (after you backup of course).

3. RUN THE CARSET INSTALLER

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* Copy the "jf_Carset_1.2.exe" installer file to your "\gpl\cars\" folder;

* Double-click on the file to start the installer;

* You will get a prompt asking where to extract the files to. Just hit "Enter" to

continue and it will overwrite your existing "\cars67\" folder when the installer unpacks

the files;

(You can alternatively run the installer from a temporary directory if you wish. You

will then need to copy the newly created "\cars67\" directory over to your "\gpl\cars\"

folder.)

* Check to see if the files were extracted correctly. Right-click on your

"\gpl\cars\cars67\" folder and select "Properties". The folder should be around 85mb

total. You should have a bunch of files now inside each of the cars subfolders.

4. SELECT AND INSTALL YOUR WHEELS

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There is now a batch file called "WheelSwap.bat" in your "\gpl\cars\cars67\" folder.

This is the GPL WheelSwap program, which allows you to easily change out all of the

wheelsets as you please. It will allow you to change wheelsets by individual car or as a

group, and also gives the ability to change the Draw Distance of 3D Wheels to help your

framerate for online play, or to showoff your gpl replays, etc.

* Double-click on the "WheelSwap.bat" program. The program will launch and run in an MS-

DOS window;

* Pick the wheels that you would like to use now. The default wheels installed are Low-

Res 3D Wheels (128x128 pixels) with 8 Draw Distance. If you have a slower machine or if

you only play online choose accordingly.

Do NOT attempt to move the "WheelSwap.bat" file. You may make a shortcut to it and put

that on your desktop or any other folder, but do not move the "WheelSwap.bat" file

itself; it needs to reside in the "\gpl\cars\cars67\" folder. See the OTHER NOTES

section about making a working shortcut to the file.

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INSTALLING OTHER VERSIONS OF THE CARS

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These are the other versions of cars to install into jf Carset, with instructions for

each car. To be done after installing jf Carset v1.2 if you would like to use any of them.

Lotus version 2 by Bruce M. Johnson - contains more detail than Lotus version 1 uses a non-gated

shifter so if you would like to have a gated shifter you may install that version later.

This version contains new updates implemented by Stefan Magnusson such as textured suspension arms

and uprights, halfshafts, and rear view mirror stands.

:: Highly Recommended to use, view the car at Bruce's Stuff in Lotus area.

Lotus version 2 with gated shifter by Bruce M. Johnson - this is basically just a replacement

3do to give the gated shifter, it will remain unsupported as it does not contain every eye-candy update like the Lotus v2 above contains. Use only if you require the gated shifter.

Brabham by Philippe Charuest uses a new more realistic body design, it has a much tighter fit inside the cockpit. This is just a replacement 3do containing all the latest eye-candy.

This version contains new updates implemented by Stefan Magnusson such as textured suspension arms

and uprights, halfshafts, and rear view mirror stands.

BRM P115 by Michiel Pompert uses a new body shape this is a BRM P115 and is different from the P83.

This version contains new texture updates implemented by Stefan Magnusson such as textured suspension arms and uprights, halfshafts, and rear view mirror stands.

:: View the car at vikings GPL site

Honda RA300 version 2-2 with gated shifter by Bruce M. Johnson and GPLSF

This version contains new texture updates implemented by Stefan Magnusson such as textured suspension arms and uprights, brake calipers, halfshafts, and re-colored mirror rims.

Cooper T81 by Volker Holz - The replacement Cooper, a new version will be out shortly be sure and stay tuned to the website below for more information on it's release.

:: View the car at the Best of GPL

Lotus version 2 by Bruce M. Johnson

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* Go to:

Bruce's Stuff in the Lotus area

and download this file:

67lot49v2.zip

* Make a new folder called "gpl\cars\cars67\lotus_new". Unzip the "67lot49v2.zip" file

into that folder;

* Delete the file named "front.mip" in the "lotus_new" folder;

* Copy the "lotus.dat" file from your existing "gpl\cars\cars67\lotus" folder (or from

the GPL CD-ROM) into the "lotus_new" folder;

* Go into the "gpl\cars\cars67\Lotus_v2 folder". Select all files inside that folder,

and copy them into the "lotus_new" folder;

* Go back to the "gpl\cars\cars67" folder. Rename the "lotus" folder to "lotus_v1", then

rename the "lotus_new" folder to "lotus".

You should now have a working Lotus v2 with the latest updates.

To use the Lotus v2 with the gated shifter modification:

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* Complete the Lotus version 2 installation (above);

* Go into the Lotus v2 Gated Shifter folder, in the "gpl\cars\jf_Carset_1.2" folder;

* Copy the contents of the Lotus v2 Gated Shifter folder into your existing

"gpl\cars\cars67\lotus" folder. Overwrite any files when prompted.

This car is unsupported as it does not include all of the eye-candy updates install

this modification only if you require the gated shifter on your Lotus version 2.

Brabham by Philippe Charuest

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Philippe Charuest's Brabham includes a new body shape that is more accurate:

* Go into the "gpl\cars\jf_Carset_1.2\brabham Phillipe" folder;

* Copy the folder's contents into the existing "gpl\cars\cars67\brabham" folder.

Overwrite any files when prompted.

BRM P115 by Michiel Pompert

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This BRM uses a more accurate external body shape.

* Go into the "gpl\cars\jf_Carset_1.2\brm Michiel" folder;

* Copy the folder's contents into the existing "gpl\cars\cars67\brm" folder. Overwrite

any files when prompted.

Check out Michiel Pompert's P115 BRM at vikings GPL site

Honda RA300 with a gated shifter

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* Go into the Murasama with gated shifter folder in the "gpl\cars\jf_Carset_1.2\ folder;

* Copy the folder's contents into the existing "gpl\cars\cars67\murasama" folder.

Overwrite any files when prompted.

Cooper T81 by Volker Holz

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Volker's Cooper is much better than the older versions and has new cockpit graphics.

Download and Install Volker's Cooper over your existing Coventry directory which jf Carset

v1.2 previously installed, Volker's Cooper uses it's own installer.

You can view Volker Holz's Cooper at the Best of GPL

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OTHER NOTES

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WheelSwap Usage

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If you try to run "WheelSwap.bat" in Windows NT or Windows 2000, it will require that you

keep the "choice.com" file in the "\gpl\cars\cars67\" folder. Windows NT/2000 does not

come with "choice.com" installed, but Windows 9x does. I included it in any case so it

will execute.

You can also make a shortcut to "WheelSwap.bat":

* Drag "WheelSwap.bat" over to the desktop or somewhere in your Start Menu;

* Tell Windows that you want the command prompt to run with more than 80x25 lines. You

should make it about 30 lines to fit all of the text in the menus on screen, or else some

parts will get cutoff;

* Right-click on the shortcut, select "Properties", go to the "Screen" tab, and choose

"Initial size 43 lines";

* Select the "Font" tab and choose "Bitmap only", and "Font size 8 x 12";

* Click OK.

Now when you run WheelSwap from the shortcut it will have the correct display.

I have included a screenshot to help you figure out what to do to get it to display with

the right size on screen:

* Go to the "\gpl\cars\jf_Carset_v1.2\jf_Carset_1.2_Extras\" folder;

* Select "jf_carset_wheelswap_screenshot.jpg" file.

Miscellaneous Parts

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I have included some miscellaneous parts in the various car folders that you can swap

out, including drivers arms and hands, and helmets, interior sidepanels, rollbars,

shifters, steering wheels. If you have a look in each of the installed cars folders

you will see a directory called _Extras/ which contains these alternate/extra files

to install over the existing versions for a different look. The parts are placed in

seperate categorized folder names for your convienence.

Gloves

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The white and black "Protex" gloves that you see installed on some cars can be replaced

by another hand that matches the chassis:

* Look inside the respective car folder in the _Extras/Suits and Faces directory for a

file named "_original_*hand.mip";

* Copy that file into the appropriate car's folder;

* Rename the file with the correct filename for that car, e.g., "fehand.mip" for the

Ferrari.

The Protex glove file is located in each of the car's _Extras/Suits and Faces directory,

and is named "_Protex_*hand.mip". This allows you to swap the hand file in and out to

your liking.

Helmets

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This version of the JF Carset includes the "team helmets" created by Bruce Johnson, which

are used on these marques:

- BRM

- Ferrari

- Honda

- Lotus

You may see some visual artifact problems with these helmets (e.g., a two-tone color on a

Ferrari helmet).

If you'd like to replace the team helmets for these marques with the non-team helmets,

follow these steps:

* Go to the "\gpl\cars\cars67\brabham" folder, and copy these two files;

- helmet1.srb

- helmet2.srb

* Go to the appropriate folder where you'd like to replace the team helmet (e.g.,

"\gpl\cars\cars67\ferrari") and paste those two files there;

* Delete or rename the two team helmet files in that folder. The filenames are:

- "belmet1.srb" and "belmet2.srb" for the BRM

- "felmet1.srb" and "felmet2.srb" for the Ferrari

- "holmet1.srb" and "holmet2.srb" for the Honda/Murasama

- "lelmet1.srb" and "lelmet2.srb" for the Lotus

* Rename the "helmet1.srb" and "helmet2.srb" files you pasted in that folder to:

- "belmet1.srb" and "belmet2.srb" for the BRM

- "felmet1.srb" and "felmet2.srb" for the Ferrari

- "holmet1.srb" and "holmet2.srb" for the Honda/Murasama

- "lelmet1.srb" and "lelmet2.srb" for the Lotus

If you replace the team helmets with the non-team helmets, you will still retain the new,

rounded helmet peaks/brims as they are built into each car's 3do file.

What's New Files Archive

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For those of you who wish to see which files have been changed for each chassis since v1.1

there is a folder located in jf_Carset_1.2/_jf Carset 1.2 Whats new list and Readmes/ which

contains the new files and 3do's for each chassis to make it easier to see what has been

changed for those of you who do your own car modifications.

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CREDITS FOR THE ADD-ONS

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This list is getting huge I know! It is sure to grow even larger with the brilliant work by

people in the GPL editing community. It is probably missing 20% of who all should really be

included here.. sadly some of the authors have been forgotten but they know who they are.

GPLEA does the car-shape, body, cockpit and wheels for most cars by Joe Lafrite - GPLEA

High-Res Dashes for the BRM, Brabham, Cooper, Lotus, Eagle and Honda by Ken Drouillard - GPLSF

Lotus 49 v1 (standard gear lever) and 3D Wheels (using GPLEA 3d wheel base) by Bruce M. Johnson - Bruce's Stuff

-- Lotus NOTE: Bruce asks not to include his Lotus 49 v2 car directly, you can use this car

by following the instructions above in the section INSTALLING OTHER VERSIONS OF THE CARS.

Honda RA300 and 3D Wheels (using GPLEA 3d wheel base) by Bruce M. Johnson - Bruce's Stuff

Modified Cockpit 3DO's for all cars except Honda by Thorsten Thierolf - the Best of GPL

BRM exterior texture reworkings by David Wright - Legends of 67

BRM Cockpit Updates and new 3D Wheels (using GPLEA 3d wheel base) by jbviking - vikings GPL site

Brabham new 3D Wheels (using GPLEA 3d wheel base) by jbviking - vikings GPL site

Cooper new 3D Wheels (using GPLEA 3d wheel base) by jbviking - vikings GPL site

Cooper new 3D Wheels with rear Deep Dish design by jbviking - vikings GPL site

Cooper exterior texture reworkings by David Wright - Legends of 67

Eagle exterior texture reworkings by David Wright - Legends of 67

Eagle car-shape by Goetz Poppitz

Eagle car 3DO Update (change windscreen, etc.) by Thorsten Thierolf - the Best of GPL

Eagle 3D Wheel and textures in low-res set by Gary Tall - The Eagle page

Eagle 3D Wheel and textures in high-res set by Gary Tall - The Eagle page

Ferrari Realistic Dash & Guages by Bruce M Johnson - Bruce's Stuff

Ferrari 3DO with rivited windscreen and texture fixes by Bruce M. Johnson w/fix by Zaf - Bruce's Stuff

Ferrari 3D Wheels by Bruce M. Johnson - Bruce's Stuff

Ferrari Cockpit red-colored Sidepanels modified from Volker Holz by Jay Beckwith - Teamfriendship

Cockpit Sidepanels for Brabham, Eagle, Cooper and Ferrari by Volker Holz - Vatican Pits

Rear View Mirror Rims for Cooper, Eagle, Lotus, BRM, Brabham by Thorsten Thierolf - the Best of GPL

All Drivers look-a-like Arms, Hands, Bodies by jbviking - vikings GPL site

All Helmets and Team Helmets by Bruce M Johnson - Bruce's Stuff

Most Rollbars by Bruce M Johnson - Bruce's Stuff

High Resolution Steering Wheels for Brabham, BRM and Ferrari by Bruce M. Johnson - Bruce's Stuff

High Resolution Steering Wheels for Cooper and Eagle by Thorsten Thierolf - the Best of GPL

New Dunlop/Firestone/Goodyear Tyre Treads for various chassis by Bruce M. Johnson - Bruce's Stuff

New Engine & Gearbox textures for all cars by Loyd Cole - GPL Engine Works

2D Modified Wheels for all cars except Lotus by jb viking - vikings GPL site

Zaf's Ferrari front and rear suspension fixes, nose changes, removed rear disc brakes.

Tedjr's Ferrari textured brake calipers, idea for textured midaxles.

Philippe Charuest for his new Brabham car updates with more realistic shape which is included as an alternate to use

Michiel Pompert for his new P115 BRM car updates with more realistic shape which is included as an alternate to use - vikings GPL site

Textured brake calipers, halfshafts and midaxles for all cars implemented by Stefan Magnusson

Textured brake caliper texture originally created by TedJr.

Rear view mirror rims created by Thorsten Thierolf

Bolts holding the rear view mirrors originally created by Bruce M. Johnson

Rollbars most are originally created by Bruce M. Johnson

Suspension halfshaft textures created by Stefan Magnusson

Various part textures have been re-colored by Stefan Magnusson

Textured suspension uprights and upper arms originally created by Volker Holz

Textured suspension uprights, upper arms and rear-view mirror holders for all cars implemented by Stefan Magnusson

Split dashes for ALL these car chassis implemented by Stefan Magnussson

Rounded helmet bills/peaks for all cars implemented by Stefan Magnusson

Rounded dashboard/windscreen for Michiel Pompert's P115 BRM by Stefan Magnusson

Alternate Murasama car with gated shifter is based on Bruce M. Johnson's v2-2 with dashboard by GPLSF

and some interior by GPLSF as well

Eagle installed Rollbar with Headrest by Jay Beckwith based on Bruce M. Johnson's rollbar

Eagle installed chrome Exhaust texture with spaces between the pipes by Jay Beckwith based on Bruce

M. Johnson's exhaust.

Eagle installed Engine/Gearbox used in set modified by Jay Beckwith and based on Loyd Cole's engine/gearbox texture

Ferrari installed Rollbar with more realistic design by Zaf cleaned up texture by Jay Beckwith

Cleanup of various graphical bugs and implementing lots of eye-candy updating to bring out the best in all cars! Cannot underestimate the credit for this all goes to Stefan Magnusson!

GPL WheelSwap by Jon Ferraez

Special thanks to Alessandro Pollini and Pierpaolo Pernici who run the most awesome website

www.RaceSim.net for hosting the jf Carset website and downloads.

New Version 1.1 to 1.2 Changes

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Added textures to suspension uprights, halfshafts, suspension upper arms and rear view

mirror stands for ALL chassis.

- Implemented by Stefan Magnusson using the textures by TedJr (calipers), Volker Holz

(suspension uprights, arms).

Philippe Charuest's Brabham car and Michiel Pompert's BRM P115 car now have the latest

eye-candy updates.

Split dash implementation for Michiel Pompert's BRM car.

Added an alternate Murasama car that uses a gated shifter, based on Bruce M. Johnson's v2-2 and

GPLSF.

Clean up of various cars 3do, to clean up how they look in game and fix errors.

- Changes and fixes implemented by Stefan Magnusson of GPL The Addons

Cooper, BRM, and the alternate Honda with gated shifter are using the H-gate shifter graphic from GPLEA's Ferrari for a more defined/detailed look.

- Suggestion by Dave Mack and graphic by GPLEA

Ferrari 3D Wheels are new from Bruce M. Johnson. Low and High-res wheel textures

included.

Lotus 3D Wheels come in Low-res textures now as well as High-res.

Lots of other small changes here is a partial more detailed listing..

Textured brake calipers, halfshafts and midaxles for all cars implemented by Stefan Magnusson

Textured brake caliper texture originally created by TedJr.

Rear view mirror rims created by Thorsten Thierolf

Bolts holding the rear view mirrors originally created by Bruce M. Johnson

Rollbars most are originally created by Bruce M. Johnson

Suspension halfshaft textures created by Stefan Magnusson

Various part textures have been re-colored by Stefan Magnusson

Textured suspension uprights and upper arms originally created by Volker Holz

Textured suspension uprights, upper arms and rear-view mirror holders for all cars implemented by Stefan Magnusson

Split dashes for ALL these car chassis implemented by Stefan Magnussson

Rounded helmet bills/peaks for all cars implemented by Stefan Magnusson

Cleanup of various graphical bugs and implementing lots of eye-candy updating to bring out the best in all cars!

Philippe Charuest for his new Brabham car updates with more realistic shape which is included as an alternate to use

Michiel Pompert for his new P115 BRM car updates with more realistic shape which is included as an alternate to use - vikings GPL site

Rounded dashboard/windscreen for Michiel Pompert's P115 BRM by Stefan Magnusson

Alternate Murasama car with gated shifter is based on Bruce M. Johnson's v2-2 with dashboard by GPLSF

and some interior by GPLSF as well

Version 1.0 to 1.1 Update 1 Changes

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Updates include:

1. I kind of felt the car set would be incomplete if I didn't add textured

half shafts and brake calipers to Bruce's v1 Lotus. Also corrected some

errors I made in many of the car 3DO's:

BRM Texture mapping wrong in some places.

Brabham Texture mapping wrong in some places.

Cooper Yellow steering wheel in mirrors

Eagle Yellow steering wheel in mirrors

Polygon error on one brake caliper

Dashboard vertex edited to avoid flashing line

Ferrari Yellow steering wheel in mirrors

Texture mapping wrong in some places.

Adjusted the meter needles on tach guage slightly

Honda Nothing (no files included in the attached archive)

Lotus v1 Split dashboard GPLSF v3

Textured half shafts and brake calipers

Lotus v2 Nothing (no files included in the attached archive)

2. Made some files in case people are using alternative drivers. I have

checked the most common patches and made the 3DO's and MIP's needed

(mainly BRM files).

- Updates done by Stefan Magnusson of GPL The Addons.

3. Lotus Engine texture is now more detailed. By Loyd Cole.

4. Brabham is now using Firestone tire treads instead of Goodyear treads it

just looks more authentic.

5. Cooper is now using Firestone tire treads instead of the old Goodyear

treads which should not have been using the Goodyears.

6. Updated WheelSwap.bat file to reflect the changes to the tire textures.

7. The realistic driver's faces are now back in the set as they should have

been.

8. Honda had two minor errors previously that are now fixed, one was the

"mlrtire0.3do" file for the 3d wheels was using the wrong speed thread 2

mip, and the other problem was the Murasama.3do did not contain

the association for the Honda driver's shoulder mip in it which was done by

jbviking.

- Changes made by Jon Ferraez

Version 1.0 to 1.1 Changes

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Changed to Cooper exterior texture reworkings to fix crashing bug by David Wright -

Legends of 67

Added 2D Modified Wheels for all cars except Lotus by jb viking - vikings GPL site

Fixed the line going down center of Bruce Johnson's Ferrari 312 dash.

Zaf's Ferrari front and rear suspension fixes, nose changes.

Tedjr's Ferrari textured brake calipers, idea for textured midaxles, removed rear disc

brakes.

Changed back to black Ferrari Cockpit sidepanels by Volker Holz - Vatican Pits

Textured brake calipers for all cars implemented by Stefan Magnusson

Textured midaxle's mapped to all cars in any detail implemented by Stefan Magnusson

Honda cockpit sides color edit, and bottom of dash changed by Stefan Magnusson

Honda now using the GPLSF guages instead of Bruce M Johnson's by Stefan Magnusson - GPL The Addons

All car 3DO's are now edited to use split dashes by Stefan Magnusson - GPL The Addons

More realistic chrome rollbar for the BRM

Updated WheelSwap to reflect new installed wheels

Made it easy to make the carset compatible with glide by implementing a batch file

Made it easy to add Bruce Johnson's Lotus version 2 into the carset

08-29-2001

Jon Ferraez

website: jf Carsets

email: jferraez@ziplip.com

Special thanks to Alessandro Pollini and Pierpaolo Pernici who run the most awesome website

www.RaceSim.net for hosting the jf Carset website and downloads. Check out their forums!