I thought I could recognise most if not all Lotus models, but this one escapes me, spotted in the paddock at Spa. Help please?
Posted 25 March 2014 - 13:05
Nothing looks very Lotus at all, does it? Except that might be a 900 series engine?
Posted 25 March 2014 - 13:12
Nice one Pete!
It's a new one on me too, though I've never adopted the position of Lotus expert. Does the owner have a sense of humour - or nostalgia - with that registration?
OAP?
722??
Rob
Edited by Kingsleyrob, 25 March 2014 - 13:12.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 13:39
Nice one Pete!
It's a new one on me too, though I've never adopted the position of Lotus expert. Does the owner have a sense of humour - or nostalgia - with that registration?
OAP?
722??
Rob
Posted 25 March 2014 - 14:32
It looks like a kit car mini Lotus 30 with a roof to me.
David
Posted 25 March 2014 - 15:33
Why didn't you ask Mr. Daniels?
Posted 25 March 2014 - 15:48
It looks very prototype-ish, aluminium dashboard and toggle switches. I wonder if it's a rebodied Esprit? Forward of the windscreen it reminds me of the Nomad Mk1.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 15:53
Belgian O registrations are for classic cars (not sure what the definition is but probably over 25 years old) so it is registered as an old car.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 16:04
I have a funny feeling it's built on a replica 23 chassis. Possibly something to do with the Noble / Auriga 23 which eventually became the Xanthos?
Posted 25 March 2014 - 16:20
Posted 25 March 2014 - 16:45
Only the engine & badges.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 17:03
Lotus Excrete???
Posted 25 March 2014 - 17:42
It shows all of the signs of being a re-bodied Esprit. Likely to be 1977ish vintage Series 1 mechanicals and backbone frame.
If Giugiaro saw it he would likely have a schmoo.
Regards
Posted 25 March 2014 - 20:05
It shows all of the signs of being a re-bodied Esprit. Likely to be 1977ish vintage Series 1 mechanicals and backbone frame.
If Giugiaro saw it he would likely have a schmoo.
Regards
Never mind Giuigiaro, Joe, what would 007 think if Q had presented this Lotus to him instead of his white Esprit??
Rob
Edited by Kingsleyrob, 25 March 2014 - 20:31.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 22:48
..reminds me of a Ferrari Dino 206S with aDP(Daytona Prototype)- glasshouse???
Michael
Posted 26 March 2014 - 04:17
I wonder why there is a blister in the panel above the drivers feet-does the owner have gout?
It is not as bad as some out there-and it can't be a 23-it only has four wheel studs...
Posted 26 March 2014 - 06:47
Is that the fuel tank right behind the driver's head?
Posted 26 March 2014 - 07:42
This appeared on the French Autodiva site's Quiz-thread a couple of years ago, but then had a twin-plane rear wing. I think it had been photographed in Spa even then. It could not be identified.
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Posted 26 March 2014 - 08:59
Posted 27 March 2014 - 07:14
It could maybe be a modified Apal GT?
Posted 29 June 2014 - 13:49
I just saw this car at a demonstration at the industrial park where Nivelles circuit used to be.
There was a sign on the windscreen that says:
Prototype Lotus unique example
Chassis: Esprit from 1977
Motor: Lotus 2 litre in aluminium
Power: 170 CV
Weight: 800 Kg
Box: SM Maserati 5 speed
Bodywork entirely hand made in polyester and polycarbonate.
Which doesn't really tell us much more than has been deduced so far.
It was too wet to hang around for the owner to ask him who had made it etc.
Posted 29 June 2014 - 21:30
I suspect that the word "prototype" might not have translated too well!
Posted 30 June 2014 - 05:47
I quite like it!
Pat
Posted 30 June 2014 - 06:44
I suspect that the word "prototype" might not have translated too well!
'Polyester' bodywork sounds a bit unlikely as well but apparently it's also a form of GRP.
Posted 30 June 2014 - 14:42
Prototype probably as in Sports Prototype rather than precursor or design study?
Polyester would be the French for GRP, I did think about translating it as such but didn't bother.
I found something on a French forum where someone had apparently been told it was built a Lotus employee.
Posted 30 June 2014 - 14:51
Polyester would be the French for GRP, I did think about translating it as such but didn't bother.
We were mildly amused to hear Darrian rallycars described as 'made of polyester and Teflon' at the Monteburg Rallysprint in Belgium.
Posted 30 June 2014 - 19:14
We were mildly amused to hear Darrian rallycars described as 'made of polyester and Teflon' at the Monteburg Rallysprint in Belgium.
At least it wasn't Bri-Nylon.
Posted 30 June 2014 - 20:39
We were mildly amused to hear Darrian rallycars described as 'made of polyester and Teflon' at the Monteburg Rallysprint in Belgium.
Did they stick to the road at all?
Posted 30 June 2014 - 21:10
Did they stick to the road at all?
Very funny, Pete TFE