Overhaulin Lotus Europa

[Mr_B]

The engine, transaxle, headlights, interior and body mods, I could live with. But the Foose siganture of a set of huge wheels, no.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NvRn1h3ITU

[b2hbm]

Yep, it's a very "marmite" conversion and AFAIK it's still not a drivable car which I did find surprising.

The man himself (7upJohn) is a member of our Europa forum and has posted lots of detailed pictures of the work done, which give a much better impression of the quality than the TV program. Here's the topic - it's several pages long with loads of photos if you're interested in the car.

http://www.lotuseuropa.org/LotusForum/index.php?to...

[Mr_B]

Thanks for the link. Interesting they are still needing to go back and seemingly fix all the issues that a complete change like that introduces. Also, no Lotus badge on it. Pity.
Is that Leno's finished Elan in some shots ? Been waiting to see that on his website.

[b2hbm]

I'd imagine so, it looked remarkably like the one posted on Lotuselan.net ?

http://www.lotuselan.net/forums/elan-mods-f31/jay-...

But I don't know for sure. I think he has a couple of Elans, one standard and one that he's tried to make into a 21st century 26R.