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[C8RKH]

New Smart Evora anyone....

[Barrykearley]

Yoof of today 

[Bibs]

[pete]

Looks Good to me

[Mark Blanchard]

Another weird looking Ferrari.  It's supposed to go like stink though.

 

 

 

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

That's because of the Lotus Carlton inspired wheels.

[pete]

Not sure if this has been posted before 

 

[silverfrost]

Yes its been posted before Pete,  but you can never see enough videos footage of an Essex esprit in motion imo 

[Barrykearley]

Wasn't there talk of that one being one of the dopplegangers ??

[silverfrost]

Not sure Barry, but looking by the petrol cap it has one of those Essex limited number stickers ?  Most people when they do Essex reps leave that sticker off as your only fooling yourself by putting the made up limited number imo 

[Barrykearley]

Here's one for you @C8RKH - perfect number plate 

[silverfrost]

Seems about  the  right plate for that sort of  car, with the Audi now been the new BMW sort of car for those sort of drivers 

[Mark Blanchard]

Ouch!

Happened on Sunday, Lady driver who'd just been shopping.

 

[silverfrost]

Oh Bugger,  Hope the owner was ok,   Poor Mclaren,   normally its porsche, and dancing donkeys having thermal issues,  hope Mclaren are not now using the other manufacturers adhesive 

[Mark Blanchard]

Still hold it's own:

 

 

 

[Barrykearley]

Why you park it next to some mr2s???

[Mark Blanchard]

It was last year's Shiplake Classic car show, I parked up first, then all these foreign pieces of $hit parked next to me, no joke.  They stole my thunder!  Some how I think the Owners new nothing about the Esprit and mistook it for a Ferrari.

[Steve V8]

It's incredible to think you could buy 50 Esprits for the price of an F50, and the Esprit is a better looking car than any of those Ferraris imo, however should a 246 GT/GTS or a Daytona have pulled up in the line up, I may have found choosing a favorite a little more tricky. 

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Many years ago I remember visiting the company near Pescara who manufactured the carbon fibre tub for these. They had a tub on display in Reception. It's funny how we still think such technology in a road car is cutting edge, whilst they were doing it 22 years ago. I wonder when Lotus will catch up?

Also at about the same time I worked for a company in Devon and was asked to take a 2 day course on fork-lift operation on a small industrial estate. One of the other units had an F50 clam bolted to one of the interior walls. Apparently the owner had crashed it and had a new one fitted, so kept the damaged one as a reminder of his expensive experience.

[Steve V8]

58 minutes ago, LotusLeftLotusRight said:

 

Also at about the same time I worked for a company in Devon and was asked to take a 2 day course on fork-lift operation on a small industrial estate. One of the other units had an F50 clam bolted to one of the interior walls. Apparently the owner had crashed it and had a new one fitted, so kept the damaged one as a reminder of his expensive experience.

[silverfrost]

Never knew this till know,  but Jim Henderson the creator of the Muppets actually owned one !    And he said he loved it as he liked driving fast and did this to the lights also which i think was quite cool !

 

 

[ChrisJ]

There is Lotus content in here

 

[silverfrost]

Great video Chris,  I love watching these sort of youtube films,  It always amazes me how much stuff is knocking about in America still,  

The lotus elite was a pretty good price imo and also looked in decent order,  hope it has found a new owner to get it back on the road 

[mayevora]

 

Doris 

https://video-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-2/16921653_363890853994848_3579726190333657088_n.mp4?efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9zZCJ9&oh=0ccbe26570400e9baa5d22b757e47572&oe=58B0B0E4

[Mark Blanchard]

Cheers for the link Ian.  Wow, that was a close one!!