New purchase!

Interesting. I thought the same. Which type would be better in your opinion? Also which wheels does mine have, do you think they’ve been replaced at some time?

Update - picked her up yesterday and got almost home when she died on me. Think it's the rotor arm as theres no spark beyond the distributor cap. Although it's a pig to get to by the looks, so her maiden drive ended on a low loader for the last few miles.

Stacks of history, looks like the owner for the past 24 years took her to Tenerife when he retired in the 90's, but passed away 2 years ago and his brother in law had her shipped back over to Telford and although in his 70's himself, spent the past 2 years full refurbing her, just to show his sister what it was like when it came out of the factory!

Cambelt and auxillary bits for the engine seem to be all that was done on the mechanics, the rest (over £18k!) was spent on the interior and exterior. It genuinely looks like almost £20k has been spent on her in the past 2 years. At least he got his money back from the sale.

I've spoken to him earlier and he seems to think those wheels are originally spec'd from new. I have never seen those wheels on a Lotus ever, so would be interested to hear your thoughts.

I'll keep you posted on the rotor arm, my local garage who I know and trust doesn't think it's going to be a biggy, although he wonders if the part will be easily available off the shelf, so might be a specialist purchase.