Finding my late fathers Elan

[C-wing]

Hi all, first time posting here!

My father recently passed away in a car accident. As a memory to him, myself and my siblings would love to find and purchase his first ever car, a Lotus Elan. I have nothing but the registration of the car so was hoping for some help -J959PPK.

Any help / guidance would be massively appreciated!

[exeterjeep]

Sorry for your recent loss.

You might get more info asking on http://forum.lotuselancentral.com/index.php which is specially for the M100, and has lots of owners. Searching that site for the reg comes up with an  ebay sale in 2008. There are a number of facebook groups for the M100 as well.

See it passed an MOT a couple of months ago.

[jonwat]

5 hours ago, C-wing said:

Any help / guidance would be massively appreciated!

As already stated, MOT renewed in May 😃

[Rambo]

5 hours ago, exeterjeep said:

....the reg comes up with an  ebay sale in 2008......

J959PPK is white, located in Cleveland (too far away for much of the population to view) with a non standard burgundy interior (nice if that's your thing, but non standard and arguably a bit much on a whitey) and with S2 wheels. It's an NA. It has only a partial history, and the immobiliser has been by-passed. If it's as easy as that to restore, why wouldn't the owner sell with a working, functioning immobiliser? One side light isn't working - has it got an electrical gremlin?

The alloys and bodywork look good in the pics and the rear screen looks top-notch.

The Buy It Now is an over-optimistic £4,250.

[jonwat]

10 hours ago, Rambo said:

The Buy It Now is an over-optimistic £4,250.

On sale where?

[exeterjeep]

12 minutes ago, jonwat said:

On sale where?

The references entered above were taken from a LEC posting when the car was for sale back in the day.(2008). There was also mention that is would be worth closer to 3250-3500. 

Back then M100 were really even cheap. Recall seeing one on South West AT that went for under £2k.

 

I have added a thread on Lotus Elan Central to see if anyone on there knows about the car. Although many on there are also on here and vv.

[Bibs]

I'm guessing that's from the 2008 advert.

[C-wing]

Been searching all the car selling websites, not had any luck! I’ve joined a few Facebook pages as well. Hopefully it’ll turn up. Appreciate you guys helping me