My recent Certificate of Provenance.. the good and the bad

[C8RKH]

You know i worry about my generation.  We've been buying homes for financial gain and then complain because now that our kids are all grown up they can't afford to buy a house. No shit sherlock!

I've read on here time and again about how people will only buy an Evora +2, with 0 miles and the factory cellophane still on the seats, with all the packs in the right colour because otherwise they won't be able to sell it - FFS, you've just bought the car and you're worried about selling it and the next owner. Get a bloody life! If you want to make money don't buy a car. Go rob a bank. It's a more certain route to wealth!

Do we really buy cars for financial gain? Worrying about the "spec" and the colour" for the next owner!  FFS, buy it because you can. Love it for what it is and because it is yours and you chose it. Drive it like Chapman intended and don't worry if bits fall off or it is red and once was silver.

Just drive it, love it, cherish it and polish it because it is your baby. Fook the future owner and fook the future "value". You can't take it with you unless you want a Viking style cremation where you arrive at the gates of valhalla in a flaming Esprit! And in that case, the colour is the least of your worries!

Red, silver, meh. It's an Esprit. A thing of beauty. Created by the gods to inspire men and take away the pain and torture of marriage   

 

[Barrykearley]

14 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

 

Red, silver, meh. It's an Esprit. A thing of beauty. Created by the gods to inspire men and take away the pain and torture of marriage   

 

Hehe - I've had th conversation re 2 x lotus this Xmas...... it didn't go down well.

still - when they arrive I'm sure I will be too busy to worry if I've been forgiven or not 

umm we haven't got space apparently for her beetle in the garage if I do that ....... anyone wanna buy a squashed Porsche ?? That's just gonna have to go

[Mark Blanchard]

7 hours ago, mik said:

From those pics, silver looks 93x better of my eyes.

Sad story about that silver S2.  Went up in flames many years ago. 

 

[Mark Blanchard]

41 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

I've read on here time and again about how people will only buy an Evora +2, with 0 miles and the factory cellophane still on the seats, with all the packs in the right colour because otherwise they won't be able to sell it - FFS, you've just bought the car and you're worried about selling it and the next owner. Get a bloody life! If you want to make money don't buy a car.

Totally agree. And if you want to loose a load of money, buy a new car.

[Blackngolds3turbo]

Don't be disappointed! Silver s2's are not easy to come by, I've got a 1977 s2 prototype that was made in metallic silver but like yours, has been painted red, also a 1979 s2 which is also a03, silver! I used to also have a 1980 in silver, which was pretty much the last of the silver s2's but sold that on to fund another esprit. 

If you like it red, keep it red! If its on the road and not causing you any other wallet pain, I'd keep it red! 

I'm respraying my red one silver and I can honestly say it's not going to be cheap!

 

I seem to be a magnet for silver esprits!

[Barrykearley]

Cos they're the best colour 

[Blackngolds3turbo]

I'm inclined to agree with you there

just realised my Elise is silver as well

[Steve V8]

2 hours ago, Barrykearley said:

Cos they're the best colour 

Well.... you would say that, Agreed they do look classy in JOHN LONG SILVER, but any lover of fine exotic Lotus would surly pay an extra ten grand for an azure blue one.

[Blackngolds3turbo]

Silver or black and gold all the way... Or red I suppose?

[Nelly]

Another S2 owner who's car was originally silver, it was yellow when I purchased it.  It needed a respray so I painted it white which was the colour car I wanted.

All done for my own preference, I have to say I prefer the silver to red though.  I would say its more common for an early car to have been resprayed at some point rather than wearing its original paint.

[Guest]

silver is very nice, i like that alot

and i have red one !!

[Mark Blanchard]

On 27/12/2016 at 10:43, gvy said:

 

The Esprit doesn't get much better than this, and under Chapman's supervision.  Should be worth £100,000 in this market!

[swindon_alan]

That is because the natural proper colour for a Lotus IS green. Preferably LRG...

[Aj]

Thank you for all the mixed advice everyone. 

Going to keep it Red with gold wheels! Can always change it at a later date but love it in its current colour scheme so that's how it will stay under my ownership.

Many thanks.

[Neverweaken]

Great, do what keeps you happy.

In my opinion as long as it was sprayed any of the originally available factory colours I wouldn't be put off and I don't think the value would be affected too much.

[GTK]

For the sake of collating Silver S2's in this thread, I also have one, but it's currently white and it was my cert. of prov. from A. Graham that revealed the original colour. I was relieved, I'll say no more. It's #59 off the line btw and had a red leather and black interior. I'm guessing yours was black inside AJ?

It's great to be able to tap into Lotus's historical archives and have the company recognise your car, the Esprit needs all the backup it can get in a market that has forgotten it, so in that sense the COP is a nice thing to have in your history file. Good to see your doing whatever you want with the car because it's an object of desire after all so why would you have your desires compromised!

Don't short change us on a pic or two when it's done!

[Chillidoggy]

Red or black with gold Speedline wheels and I'm reaching for the tissue box.

[Aj]

On Sat Jan 07 2017 at 11:55, GTK said:

For the sake of collating Silver S2's in this thread, I also have one, but it's currently white and it was my cert. of prov. from A. Graham that revealed the original colour. I was relieved, I'll say no more. It's #59 off the line btw and had a red leather and black interior. I'm guessing yours was black inside AJ?

It's great to be able to tap into Lotus's historical archives and have the company recognise your car, the Esprit needs all the backup it can get in a market that has forgotten it, so in that sense the COP is a nice thing to have in your history file. Good to see your doing whatever you want with the car because it's an object of desire after all so why would you have your desires compromised!

Don't short change us on a pic or two when it's done!

That's right, black leather interior. 

This was her a couple of months back!