Esprit Picture & Video Thread

[exeterjeep]

Another pic of the esprit  from inside the showroom. £12995 - a bargain if this was at that price now.

[exeterjeep]

And to complete the details here is an advert for it. The white M100 being over £21k

[jep]

Great ad. Were not Excel SE nearly £30K new in 1987 (D reg)? What year is the advert? 1992? Excel had a steep depreciation curve but then almost stop depreciating after circa 5 years old.

Justin

[Bazza 907]

1 minute ago, jep said:

Excel had a steep depreciation curve but then almost stop depreciating after circa 5 years old.

Not as steep a curve as the white HC Turbo Esprit. One minute its advertised at £15950, the next its £12995.

[jep]

Perhaps they are underwater with it.

Justin

 

[exeterjeep]

11 minutes ago, jep said:

Great ad. Were not Excel SE nearly £30K new in 1987 (D reg)? What year is the advert? 1992? Excel had a steep depreciation curve but then almost stop depreciating after circa 5 years old.

Justin

Excel SE were around 27k in 1990 ish, the one I bought in 1991 was London lotus' demo from 1990, I paid 20k. Have also found an add from April 1992.

 

I used to keep the pages from autotrader etc where there were Lotus cars listed. Then several years ago I photo'd them to cut down on paper... What a really interesting thing to do..

 

[jep]

@exeterjeep April 1992 was the month I bought my first Lotus. S1 Esprit, white, 66,000 miles, £5,200 from Loot free ads paper.

Stags ain't done much in values since 1992. I do love a Triumph, Dolly Sprint is a fine wagon.

Justin

[exeterjeep]

5 minutes ago, jep said:

I do love a Triumph, Dolly Sprint is a fine wagon.

The wife and also my mother had a number of Dollies... Saw one the other day and they look quite slim and small. Had reasonable interiors though for the time.

That esprit you bought would have gone up in value quite a bit. Seen restored ones listed for almost 100k.

[jep]

Yep, Dolly Sprint interior is an all-time classic. Very comfy and the one I had was exceptionally well built. 1979 MY. I bought it in 2010 and ran it for 20,000 miles or so.

I loved my S1 Esprit but I am probably not the right owner these days for one. I sold mine to Japan in 1996.

Justin

[Sizona]

Passed my driving test in a Dolly Sprint, learnt on it as well. Was my mothers. Great car.

[ChrisJ]

I bought my first Excel on the day the first Gulf War started - was listening to it on the train to Norwich to NMC. Cost £14k - 1987 SE. Most expensive car I had bought before getting a couple of new Mazdas in 2019.

[exeterjeep]

3 different Esprits at Brands Hatch in 1983, one may have been from B&C  , this was a GP practice day. What a WOW for the black esprit.

A new esprit outside another dealer since closed , looks like a new elite s2 and an éclat s2 as well.

Now who knows which this dealer it was....

[exeterjeep]

Seem to have missed this pic off.

[Giniw]

 

(via https://twitter.com/EspritWorld)

Edited February 18, 2021 by Giniw

[yeller77]

 

Also from FB, nice to know the Dany Special is still out there.

[stephenwhyte]

Almost the FYEO Bond number there......and for a moment I thought it actually was!😳

[Giniw]

Just a couple of stone chips apparently.

Edited February 19, 2021 by Giniw

[exeterjeep]

20 hours ago, exeterjeep said:

A new esprit outside another dealer since closed , looks like a new elite s2 and an éclat s2 as well.

Now who knows which this dealer it was....

This dealer was Portman, located at Denham in Bucks, not far from the old Denham film studios, between Uxbridge and Rickmansworth. Don't think the dealer lasted very long.  May be they were hoping to get a car in the studios.

[jep]

21 hours ago, exeterjeep said:

3 different Esprits at Brands Hatch in 1983, one may have been from B&C  , this was a GP practice day. What a WOW for the black esprit.

A new esprit outside another dealer since closed , looks like a new elite s2 and an éclat s2 as well.

Now who knows which this dealer it was....

600 LOT is the plate on the S1 turbo Bobby Bell did in the 70s. Clearly he used the plate on other cars later. 

Justin 

[Bazza 907]

A few years ago somebody on here was trying to find what happened to the registration number 600 LOT 

[jep]

Scott Walker perhaps? Or Andy who know owns Bell and Colvill? He likes a good number plate. I would be surprised if Bobby sold it having clearly transferred it to later cars - unless he already had.

600 LOT is still on a red Lotus according to DVLA. 

Justin 

[exeterjeep]

7 minutes ago, jep said:

Scott Walker perhaps? Or Andy who know owns Bell and Colvill? He likes a good number plate. I would be surprised if Bobby sold it having clearly transferred it to later cars - unless he already had.

600 LOT is still on a red Lotus according to DVLA. 

Justin 

MOT expired March 2011, very low mileage on the history...

Scott likes Esprits.

[exeterjeep]

A picture from the factory and 2 from the hyde park parade leading up to the motorshow at earls court in 1975.

[Giniw]

http://berlinasportivo.com/features/greatengines/lotuseng.jpg (from http://berlinasportivo.com/features/greatengines/engines.php)

It's just a drawing of the 910 but ... !

 

Edited February 22, 2021 by Bibs

[Escape]

I should print that and put it on the wall in the Workshop. 🙂