Esprit Picture & Video Thread

[snowrx]

After so many posts here about the front ride height, the solution was found long ago! 

[ChrisJ]

Fabians off now tracking down all the girls (and Trevor Eve, and the cars in the background) to replicate the shoot.

[Lotusfab]

Couldn’t find any so had to settle for this...

[Likuid]

Lotus Esprit + 2 Ferraris in this commercial (skip to 1:08)

Edited November 14, 2020 by Likuid

[Gis]

Sunday classic car meet in Singapore with a lovely original condition Eclat. I was surprised to find out that the Eclat has less ground clearance between its rather long wheelbase than the esprit. He made contact on several speed bumps while the turbo had no issues getting over them.

[Escape]

@Gis it is known that an Esprit performs well offroad, just ask Top Gear. 😎

[910Esprit]

On 14/11/2020 at 00:31, Likuid said:

Lotus Esprit + 2 Ferraris in this commercial (skip to 1:08)

Disapointed 'Ruthy' (Ozark) did not pick the Esprit!

[Gis]

Out for a spin after the AC renewal to full 134A. Windows up, nice and cool, we’ve been spotted by one of the local lotus group members in downtown Singapore. Good shot, brings out the angles of the esprit nicely. Might be one of the last shots in that color, she’s headed for a respray soon. 

[Mark Blanchard]

Stunning car.  And the car's fans must be going crazy around town in that heat.

[robington]

I'm also interested in jukeboxes, so here is a resto I recently finished in the garage and I thought the 2 pictured well together.  The jukebox is a 1957 AMI H, the car is .... well you know that bit 😊

 

[Fridge]

You need to get some Blondie, Madonna, Eurythmics and Simple Minds on that to keep it within period.

[jep]

Sheena Easton 'For Your Eyes Only' top of the bill. 

[Gis]

Night drive outing with the classic car club Singapore folks. Nice and cool temperatures & some legendary local backdrops. Dempsey hill and the beautiful Raffles hotel. 

[Luc]

Red

Yellow

Red

Yellow

Red

Yellow

A f*cking weekend under storm and sun

[Dan E]

Spent a few days polishing 

[C8RKH]

Looks great. Hopefully you'll have the other side done by next weekend @Dan E

[Dan E]

Lol you are so right I have got to do the other side 😂

[Dan E]

If anyone is interested, which I presume that would be absolutely no one as, I guess you actually have a life, this is what I done, the difference is night and day. I do this all by hand as I don’t trust myself with a machine. 
 

1. Wheels first using using Bilt Hamber Auto Wheel which is excellent and contains no acid

2. Ultimate Finish snow foam 

3. wash with Valet Pro Advanced Poseidon Car Wash using the 2 bucket method, buckets with grit guards also from Ultimate Finish 

4. dry with microfibre towels 

5. get the Big Boi heated blower out to get rid of all the excess water, if you haven’t got one of these then I suggest you do stops all water marks and is especially good on wing mirrors 

6. clay bar with Bilt Hamber Auto Clay soft, this is excellent as you can just use tap water in a spray gun thing, your wife will have one, I know because she doesn’t have one anymore 

7. Meguiars 105 Ultra Cut Compound applied with a pad and polished off with a microfibre, I had to do this twice on the horizontal surfaces, be careful with any edges easy to remove the paint from a 40 year old car

8. Meguliars 205 Ultra Finishing polish same process as above 

9. Dodo Juice lime prime lite as the pre wax 

10. Dodo Juice Purple Haze wax 

11. Glass G4 Nanotech glass polish 

12. a good lawyer for the inevitable divorce 

13. Gin and wine, check in with Sparkles when you can start drinking it’s normally not long after 11am 

oh and you need a Bose speaker and a Spotify account 

 

Lastly never polish in circles always straight lines 

[Sparky]

I am duty bound to inform you that you've done a wonderful job, as I need to stay on your good side for the next few weeks.

[Dan E]

1 minute ago, Sparky said:

I am duty bound to inform you that you've done a wonderful job, as I need to stay on your good side for the next few weeks.

Yours is next I can’t look at them swirl marks anymore 

[Sparky]

Oh all right then.  I'm too good to you.

[Dan E]

 

Just need to purchase one of these first 

[Sparky]

You're just jealous of glorious Norfolk Mustard Yellow.

[Giniw]

12 & 13

Well now that's an impressive work list!

[Chillidoggy]

18 hours ago, Dan E said:

If anyone is interested, which I presume that would be absolutely no one as, I guess you actually have a life, this is what I done, the difference is night and day. I do this all by hand as I don’t trust myself with a machine. 
 

1. Wheels first using using Bilt Hamber Auto Wheel which is excellent and contains no acid

2. Ultimate Finish snow foam 

3. wash with Valet Pro Advanced Poseidon Car Wash using the 2 bucket method, buckets with grit guards also from Ultimate Finish 

4. dry with microfibre towels 

5. get the Big Boi heated blower out to get rid of all the excess water, if you haven’t got one of these then I suggest you do stops all water marks and is especially good on wing mirrors 

6. clay bar with Bilt Hamber Auto Clay soft, this is excellent as you can just use tap water in a spray gun thing, your wife will have one, I know because she doesn’t have one anymore 

7. Meguiars 105 Ultra Cut Compound applied with a pad and polished off with a microfibre, I had to do this twice on the horizontal surfaces, be careful with any edges easy to remove the paint from a 40 year old car

8. Meguliars 205 Ultra Finishing polish same process as above 

9. Dodo Juice lime prime lite as the pre wax 

10. Dodo Juice Purple Haze wax 

11. Glass G4 Nanotech glass polish 

12. a good lawyer for the inevitable divorce 

13. Gin and wine, check in with Sparkles when you can start drinking it’s normally not long after 11am 

oh and you need a Bose speaker and a Spotify account 

 

Lastly never polish in circles always straight lines 

Needs air-con.