V8 1996 anyone here

[silverfrost]

I stand corrected Jonny,  Well spotted 

[stephenwhyte]

Got to say the V8 with those wheels really suits dark metallic - only has around 64,000 miles by the looks of it. That needs rescued

[cbclotus]

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Great looking car nice colour .is it on later wheels .I would love to see something  like that when I take our hound out.lol.Just off to find the hounds lead.Mike

 

[franjipane]

Someone go and knock on the door!

[Chillidoggy]

19 hours ago, stephenwhyte said:

Got to say the V8 with those wheels really suits dark metallic - only has around 64,000 miles by the looks of it. That needs rescued

 

Barry's climbing into Thunderbird 2, even as we speak.

[Barrykearley]

Don't - if he was up for selling at the right price - I've a garage I can hide that from the wife in 

[silverfrost]

You will never learn Barry 

[pete]

going to put a note through his door this weekend

[Barrykearley]

Stick my details on it chap

[Bravo73]

Poor @johnpwalsh. He gets stuck offshore for a few weeks and a V8 seems to slip through the fingers of Lotus Rescue... 

[Barrykearley]

Phew that's lucky 

[andydclements]

5 hours ago, Barrykearley said:

Don't - if he was up for selling at the right price - I've a garage I can hide that from the wife in 

Or you can hide in it.

[pete]

2 hours ago, Barrykearley said:

Stick my details on it chap

care of which mental hospital

[Sparky]

Bazza, if you're really into that kind of masochism, pop over.  You can fill your boots on this SE without any of the financial burden or spousal abuse.  No, don't thank me.

[silverfrost]

I would piss myself if that v8 was off the road for gearbox  reasons 

If you bag that car Barry, you get the award 

[Barrykearley]

I can whip that box out in less than an hour ........

[mayevora]

That looks like my old V8 I sold 6 years ago. Mine was on a private plate that I sold with the car but GOM was the original plate! (I did see the private plate for sale shortly after he bought it) Those are not the AWI Monoblocks that I had. Mine went to a chap in Essex and he also had another Esprit. Can't remember his name. Still looks nice.

[Chillidoggy]

They all look nice in the photos..............

[silverfrost]

4 hours ago, Barrykearley said:

I can whip that box out in less than an hour ........

I bet it can also take plenty of money out of your wallet in less than a hour also......

[johnpwalsh]

Hate you bunch of morons. Now I have a link I can see all the slanderous comments. Just bare mind, I WILL be back in the UK at some point so be prepared. And I will have earned a few coins in the process. So a hunting we will go. Barry you will be first to get it and why so long to take out a gearbox. Frightened the wife may catch up with you. Better go as this wee warning will have cost me about a fiver in data but well worth it can CU guys really soon. 3 weeks down and more Dollar's in the kitty. 

Keep em ♿ ? 

On 15/03/2017 at 18:15, Barrykearley said:

Don't - if he was up for selling at the right price - I've a garage I can hide that from the wife in 

He wants more than a fiver Barry 

[silverfrost]

Glad all is well John   i am sure plenty of Lotus will still be about for you to find when you get back mate 

[mayevora]

I spent over £10k on it just in my last year of ownership also. Can't be that much wrong with it surely.

[Mark Blanchard]

Now if that had an S4s badge on it I'd be around there like a shot.  But an early V8 .

[swindon_alan]

On 16/03/2017 at 18:02, Mark Blanchard said:

Now if that had an S4s badge on it I'd be around there like a shot.  But an early V8 .

Disgusting

Wash your mouth out with Mr Kearley's old four pot gearbox oil this minute...

You youngsters will never learn. Flash a Yank V8 in front of you and you go all swoony. A proper Hethel engineered V8 and you go completely gay...

On 16/03/2017 at 08:31, mayesprit said:

That looks like my old V8 I sold 6 years ago. Mine was on a private plate that I sold with the car but GOM was the original plate! (I did see the private plate for sale shortly after he bought it) Those are not the AWI Monoblocks that I had. Mine went to a chap in Essex and he also had another Esprit. Can't remember his name. Still looks nice.

Hello Ian

Yep, it would look better and more original with the AWIs. Have you still got the VIN? I would be interested to know how early a V8 it was, looking at the registry I'm still intrigued to find the first production V8.

[mayevora]

Hi Alan

I haven't a note of the VIN number anymore. I know I did have it at one time The only thing I definitely remember was it was 3 cars up the production line from @Jukka V8 as we took a lot of pictures with the two cars together on one of the factory visits that Bibs organised a number of years back.