After soaking the pedals with WD40 and leaving for a while I only managed to remove the nut holding the left-hand pedal to the bottom bracket- cannot get pedal arm to come off.
Tried to remove nut on right hand pedal- reverse thread- managed to move it with my halfords advanced socket set but then the nut jammed and socket kept slipping off- did no more for fear of rounding the nut off..
Would be very grateful for some hints and tips- I have a crank extractor tool but cannot remove this nut yet..
This is going to be a big job- some tinworm has been at the chassis and there are one or two "weightsaving" holes in it- don't think lotus put them there...
At least the motor seems to work...