Essex Random Images.......

[bistobarry]

On 20 February 2016 at 04:33, nello said:

Not strictly Essex but as I'd mentioned about the Sunbeam .............. heres ACBC at the wheel of one - an image I'd not seen before:

Hi I don't think this is a Sunbeam. It looks like a MK2 Escort.

[swindon_alan]

On 20/02/2012 at 00:24, mayesprit said:

WOW!

I hadn't seen this thread before. The Essex G Esprit is definitely gorgeous to look at. What a colour combination. However, this V8 is stunning as well! It is suprising what that design does for any Esprit, it makes it look so low and long. Is this one still in Essex livery?

I love it!

[silverfrost]

Think that image is a computer game image Image Alan  Think forza ?  The car does look super cool but i think the alloy wheels may look better with last model v8 alloy wheels the sort of ones with spokes if you know what i mean lol 

[swindon_alan]

Ahhhh yes, of course! Now if I had an Azure Blue V8... 

[march]

I wonder how much it would cost to get those made up - I have a blue V8  and really like the colour scheme. Maybe a bit boy racer - but surely boy racer with style (well some possibly).

[C8RKH]

 

 

[swindon_alan]

2 hours ago, march said:

I wonder how much it would cost to get those made up - I have a blue V8  and really like the colour scheme. Maybe a bit boy racer - but surely boy racer with style (well some possibly).

About three hundred quid for that level of removable wrap. Fookin' awesome. Do it! 

[march]

For £300.00 I'll do it as long as they don't need to cut on the car. Any suggestions as who can do this sort of thing?

[swindon_alan]

Yep. There's a company in Swindon, not a zillion miles from Devon, will give you details tomorrow, I've got a stupidly early start!

[Steve1]

This could answer a question that I've been wondering since I was 8 years old. It was 1983 and Lotus had a open day at Hethel. So my mum,  my cousin(in the piture)drove my father's Elite to Norwich and I can remember been blown away by the Essex Esprit. Also about that day I remember some machine like a bike going round the track and I think it was called the Poppy flyer. 

Anyway does anyone remember this Esprit and is it your one. I would love to know more on this car. 

[swindon_alan]

On 28/03/2016 at 22:48, swindon_alan said:

Yep. There's a company in Swindon, not a zillion miles from Devon, will give you details tomorrow, I've got a stupidly early start!

Try these Marc:

http://www.aurasigns.co.uk/vehicle_graphics.html

[march]

Thanks Alan - I am currently suffering from sleep deprivation due to lambing (kitchen is slowly being overtaken by orphan lambs and workshop - or barn depending on your point of view - is currently full of sheep and lambs). When things settle down a bit and if I still think it is a good idea (not trying to get out of it - I just know its not a good time to make decisions when I am this tired)

In the immortal words of Kate Bush - Let me sleep and Dream Stink of sheep

[Bazza 907]

13 hours ago, Steve1 said:

This could answer a question that I've been wondering since I was 8 years old. It was 1983 and Lotus had a open day at Hethel. So my mum,  my cousin(in the piture)drove my father's Elite to Norwich and I can remember been blown away by the Essex Esprit. Also about that day I remember some machine like a bike going round the track and I think it was called the Poppy flyer. 

Anyway does anyone remember this Esprit and is it your one. I would love to know more on this car. 

Steve

Great photo. Looks like an early Essex as it has chrome door handles. It also looks like it has a roof mounted aerial rather than it being (as normal) on the offside front wing. I'm fairly sure I've seen pictures of the car taken on the same day which might help identify it. Can you see a number in the middle of the decal next to the fuel filler cap? 

[Loose Cannon]

14 hours ago, Steve1 said:

I love seeing pictures like this. The past is, as someone clever once said, a foreign country.

 

[PhilW]

I see the louvres have two supports instead of one. Maybe a replacement tailgate already in '83

[Steve1]

1 hour ago, Bazza 907 said:

Steve

Great photo. Looks like an early Essex as it has chrome door handles. It also looks like it has a roof mounted aerial rather than it being (as normal) on the offside front wing. I'm fairly sure I've seen pictures of the car taken on the same day which might help identify it. Can you see a number in the middle of the decal next to the fuel filler cap? 

Hi Bazza

 Unfortunately I cant see the number... even when I enlarged the photo on my phone, but any info is good info. Its not your one then.... have seen yours and your black one down at GST, I even had a cheeky sit in your black one as that's my boyhood dream colour one..

[Bazza 907]

Steve

No not mine. Glad you liked the black one

 

 

[PhilW]

MPW71V has double louvre supports.  Development/show car?  Cant explain ariel though.

[Veilside]

KAH 540V Dev-2

[PhilW]

Very well spotted Steve. Can you explain the second aerial?

[Veilside]

Hi, No answer for how the aerial grew out of the roof, will have to remain one of lifes unsolved mysteries.

Steve T

[silverfrost]

 

6 hours ago, Veilside said:

KAH 540V Dev-2

How come this car had side repeaters in 1980, mine did not  and its a W reg 

[Veilside]

Dan what's your Vin no. ?

The photo taken outside the Lotus Factory of KAH 540V doesn't have side repeaters yet in the later photo it has so not sure how to answer your question.  

Photo - W Reg 1980

[silverfrost]

Hi Steve,

 884   W reg,  Maybe they fitted them to make it look like a more modern car as i think side repeaters where introduced in the early 80s, so may of been a cosmetic thing to make it look a bit more updated at the time maybe 

[ChrisJ]

The side repeaters on the Esprit are the same as the ones on my dads M reg Austin 2200