Car ID request (again)
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A993LAD

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1,899 posts

237 months

Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Can anybody identify this red car with the Pop-Up headlights? It looks a bit like a Lotus Esprit but doesn't seem to have a bonnet badge.

I checked the registration number but it doesn't exist anymore.

I was flicking through the TV channels and spotted it in an old episode of Howards Way.


emperorburger

1,484 posts

82 months

Wednesday 11th January 2023
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TVR Tasmin by the look of it.

TarquinMX5

2,256 posts

96 months

Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Agreed, Tasmin.

MDMA .

9,612 posts

117 months

Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Lower front bumper looks like a Lotus Excel.

2 tone and 4 oval vents on the lower part. I’d say Excel.



Edited by MDMA . on Wednesday 11th January 21:34

Dapster

8,160 posts

196 months

Wednesday 11th January 2023
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MDMA . said:
Lower front bumper looks like a Lotus Excel.

2 tone and 4 oval vents on the lower part. I’d say Excel.



Edited by MDMA . on Wednesday 11th January 21:34
Agree

A very early pre facelift Eclat Excel as it was called then, with the body coloured bumpers



Also in shot, 5 dr RR, Bentley Mulsanne and I think a 205?


MDMA .

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117 months

Wednesday 11th January 2023
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MDMA .

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Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Dapster said:
MDMA . said:
Lower front bumper looks like a Lotus Excel.

2 tone and 4 oval vents on the lower part. I’d say Excel.



Edited by MDMA . on Wednesday 11th January 21:34
Agree

A very early pre facelift Eclat Excel as it was called then, with the body coloured bumpers



Also in shot, 5 dr RR, Bentley Mulsanne and I think a 205?
I’d go Silver Spirit with the headlight wipers and plate location.

Turbobanana

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217 months

Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Dapster

8,160 posts

196 months

Wednesday 11th January 2023
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MDMA . said:
I’d go Silver Spirit with the headlight wipers and plate location.
Thanks for the IMCD link Turbo!

It's a Bentley Eight! Has the chrome grill shell.



Replaced by a Turbo (possibly a Turbo R) with the body coloured shell - must have been an early one with to have the square headlights



Then a later Turbo S



And another



Never watched it at the time but there were same tasty motors in it!

https://www.imcdb.org/movie_134250-Howards--Way.ht...

Edited by Dapster on Wednesday 11th January 22:26

bongtom

2,018 posts

99 months

Thursday 12th January 2023
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Dapster said:
...and I think a 205?
Nahh, Mk2 Bedford CF van.


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