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Ah ok, I see, that's the full body shell moulds. So are the moulds for the additional panels like bumpers and sills not available?
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Wahoo!!!
Sorry, scrabbling around all excited! Do we have any contact details or further info?
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Esprit V8
SCC082918THA15182
September 1996
Lotus metallic green with cream interior
Swindon, Wiltshire, UK
swindon_alan
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(Duplicate post to introductions section of the forum)
Hi all, hope that you are doing well
I've recently bought a '96 Esprit V8 in Lotus metallic green, only 44k miles with full provenance, service history, receipts and so on.
I have wanted an Esprit since they were introduced in 1976 when I was in short trousers and now I have finally got one!
It is a fantastic car and completely gorgeous...except
I should have known not to take it out in the winter. Nine days in I was coming off a roundabout a few hundred yards from my house, driving carefully, hit a patch of ice, lost it completely. Went straight across the road, up a verge and demolished a two pole road sign. One of the poles was hit by the middle of the front end and went down flat, the other one grazed the driver's side. Luckily nobody was coming the other way or it could have been so much worse. No injuries, just a bit of shock. I drove the car back home pouring out coolant.
What sees like a long time later I have got a cash settlement from the insurers to repair it. It took a lot of effort to convince the company not to write it off, they employed an independent assessor in the end who described the car as "beautiful and must go back on the road". A flexible insurance company? Well yes, in this case.
So I am now working with a classic car restoration specialist who has a lot of experience with fibreglass to get it sorted. I now understand how difficult spares for them are to get, particularly body panels. Lotus have destroyed the moulds apparently, surely it would have in someone's interest to take them off their hands and make some occasional money on replacements?
My mission is therefore to scour the Internet, the forums and the Lotus specialists to see what I can get hold of.
In the meantime, if anyone has any of the following knocking around surplus to requirements or can point me in the right direction I would be very grateful:
S4 front bumper
S4 V8 front spoiler
S4 RHS driver's door
S4 RHS sill cover
S4 rear bumper
If these are indeed like hen's teeth then the other option is to pay the labour to repair the damaged panels but that is going to be pretty expensive.
The windscreen took a whack at the bottom edges from the bonnet and is cracked, so will need a new one. Any suggestions on suppliers or pricing?
I need a coolant radiator as well, I see that Radtec do an aluminum one, does anybody have any experience of them? http://radtec.co.uk/products/536/Lotus-V8-Esprit.htm. Oh and anyone know what the fans were off? Fiesta Mk 2?
Target back on the road date: 30th April, parts permitting. Wish me luck!
Cheers
Alan
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Hi all, hope that you are doing well
I've recently bought a '96 Esprit V8 in Lotus metallic green, only 44k miles with full provenance, service history, receipts and so on.
I have wanted an Esprit since they were introduced in 1976 when I was in short trousers and now I have finally got one!
It is a fantastic car and completely gorgeous...except
I should have known not to take it out in the winter. Nine days in I was coming off a roundabout a few hundred yards from my house, driving carefully, hit a patch of ice, lost it completely. Went straight across the road, up a verge and demolished a two pole road sign. One of the poles was hit by the middle of the front end and went down flat, the other one grazed the driver's side. Luckily nobody was coming the other way or it could have been so much worse. No injuries, just a bit of shock. I drove the car back home pouring out coolant.
What sees like a long time later I have got a cash settlement from the insurers to repair it. It took a lot of effort to convince the company not to write it off, they employed an independent assessor in the end who described the car as "beautiful and must go back on the road". A flexible insurance company? Well yes, in this case.
So I am now working with a classic car restoration specialist who has a lot of experience with fibreglass to get it sorted. I now understand how difficult spares for them are to get, particularly body panels. Lotus have destroyed the moulds apparently, surely it would have in someone's interest to take them off their hands and make some occasional money on replacements?
My mission is therefore to scour the Internet, the forums and the Lotus specialists to see what I can get hold of.
In the meantime, if anyone has any of the following knocking around surplus to requirements or can point me in the right direction I would be very grateful:
S4 front bumper
S4 V8 front spoiler
S4 RHS driver's door
S4 RHS sill cover
S4 rear bumper
If these are indeed like hen's teeth then the other option is to pay the labour to repair the damaged panels but that is going to be pretty expensive.
The windscreen took a whack at the bottom edges from the bonnet and is cracked, so will need a new one. Any suggestions on suppliers or pricing?
I need a coolant radiator as well, I see that Radtec do an aluminum one, does anybody have any experience of them? http://radtec.co.uk/products/536/Lotus-V8-Esprit.htm. Oh and anyone know what the fans were off? Fiesta Mk 2?
Target back on the road date: 30th April, parts permitting. Wish me luck!
Cheers
Alan
Hello lotusforums - Esprit V8
in Introductions
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Cheers Paul, I might well be interested. Can you check it against the picture at the start of the the thread as I think that the V8 spoilers are different to the S4/S4S, in that the ducting is bigger and they have small aerofoils on the corners?
This one is on eBay but it doesn't look correct: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LOTUS-ESPRIT-GT3-S4s-FRONT-LOWER-SPOILER-/300390533160
Thanks in advance