Random car and/or Lotus related pictures and videos

[KennyN]

Brilliant, I like the way he rocks up in a t-shirt to get the job done! 😄

[GTK]

The berms on the track! 

[Bibs]

[Advantage]

Spotted something shiny at Autosport last weekend.

[Advantage]

Get the kettle on, you're going to enjoy this. Carfection's latest on the Esprit Sport 300.

 

 

[Sport220]

Henry Catchpole + Lotus = ❤️

 

Car Throttle uploaded this yesterday as well

 

 

Is it just a coincidence or an evidence of Geely's plan to raise brand awareness with Lotus glories of the past? I like it

[stephenwhyte]

That Esprit 300 video was brilliant - what an amazing car that is! Henry really does to car reviewing well - great style that just seems so right👏

I wouldn’t sell my Turbo Esprit for much but I would for a Sport 300........plus a few quid clearly😉

[Bibs]

 

[Advantage]

You've just got to love an EB110. Jay Leno does, and here he is with a 35 minute video:

 

[GTK]

I find one thing strange about the Leno's Garage videos. If wikipedia is to be taken as gospel there are three production companies and five producers not including Jay involved, and no one has thought; 'we can get better on road sound than this'. Granted to do it right would take a bit more time and effort but when you're looking at a car like the Bugatti, it'd just be so much sweeter, rounder, with dedicated engine sound, and who better to have the resources to bring you the production. 

[Kevin Wheeler]

Looking through old photos I came across these from, I think, a Silvestone GP in the early eighties.

This is about thirty years before I bought my first Lotus and I didn't really know what I was snapping

 

 

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Trying to work out how to upload!

[Kevin Wheeler]

 

 

Is that better?

The scan isn't brilliant but the pictures were probably taken on a Kodak Brownie!

I had no idea this was so rare when I snapped it

[tim_marra]

The San Tropez Esprit. Something of an acquired taste.

[KennyN]

@Kevin Wheeler It's good to see the cars, but look at the advertising boards...the Ambassador, now there's a car that would have been best left on the drawing board!  I remember my Dad having one for a very short spell as a company car, it was in the dealers more than it was on the driveway, he should have got a Lotus.

[eeyoreish]

The St Tropez...love it!

[Kevin Wheeler]

11 hours ago, KennyN said:

It's good to see the cars, but look at the advertising boards...the Ambassador, now there's a car that would have been best left on the drawing board!  I remember my Dad having one for a very short spell as a company car, it was in the dealers more than it was on the driveway, he should have got a Lotus.

And my wife learnt to drive in an automatic Metro. About as far removed from a St Tropez Esprit as you can get. (She cannot drive my Esprit as she passed her test in the automatic!)

[silverfrost]

1 hour ago, eeyoreish said:

The St Tropez...love it!

Matt on here has the moulds if you fancy cutting the roof off yours 

[Barrykearley]

16 minutes ago, Kevin Wheeler said:

And my wife learnt to drive in an automatic Metro. About as far removed from a St Tropez Esprit as you can get. (She cannot drive my Esprit as she passed her test in the automatic!)

Perfect set up

[eeyoreish]

1 hour ago, silverfrost said:

Matt on here has the moulds if you fancy cutting the roof off yours 

I think I have enough to do on the TE. I would love one though!

[Bibs]

 

[ChrisJ]

 

[TAR]

Now that is my idea of heaven!  

[Bibs]

From Morris on LinkedIn...

[GTK]

too funny! 

[race at 7min, but don't miss the Japanese craic beforehand]

 

[silverfrost]

A lot of love for Europas over here     A guy round by me owns a black Europa with a rear mounted wing spolier,   Also racing seems or used to be very much eaier/cheaper to get into,  regs may of changed now though,  past a model shop last month with cars in the window, went back a few weeks ago to see what they had as i was after the Fujimi S1 model kit to do some kit bashing with. 

The shop only had metal cast cars sadly, but they pointed me in the direction of a local hobby store,  went up there and chap sitting behind the counter was wearing a jacket with a lotus badge stiched on, always a good sign, asked him for the kit, and he took me straight to the shelf !

Sat down with him and he still owns an esprit, a turbo se, also used to race plenty of cars Alfas, fiats, and a lotus 7, just weekend racing by the looks of the pictures, really nice guy and even gave me a 10 percent discount