My S1 Lotus Exige

[swilding]

I've been a member of the forums for a while now (actually since 2003 so ages) and posted occasionally but until now hadn't posted anything about my cars or my car history.

I've had various everyday boring cars which I will ignore but interesting cars I've had include Clio cup, Westfield, elise, S2 exige, Clio V6 and I now own a S1 exige as a garage queen / weekend toy, a 996.2 C2 for my daily commute (these are bargains now and I'll post a separate thread) and a company Merc for the family. Anyway more about the S1 exige.

I've owned the car since early 2008. Looking through the history I have an invoice from Bell & Colvill who carried out the '190' upgrade in 2004. On this invoice they have printed the below comment :-

"Behind rear cabin panel on the bulkhead is lots of writing and signatures wishing happy motoring to the last exige built"

I've been meaning to take the interior out and take some photo's but just haven't found the time. Anyway a couple of days ago I got the car serviced at Guglielmi (excellent service again btw) and asked if they would also remove the interior and take pictures of the bulkhead.

The good news is that there are loads of signatures. See below for some of the many pictures I have and a couple of the car.









Many of the signatures are readable so I hope to shortly be able to get into contact with one of them.

Thanks for reading,

Simon

Edited by swilding on Friday 25th May 21:59

[Altrezia]

Perfect.

[JPearson]

Ahhh thought i saw this recently! Love it

[tom felty]

[PaulG40]

That is AWESOME! Wibble!

The last one ever built, I bet that maintains itself a hefty price tag?! Look after it!

[Gingernuts]

Still love series ones, and to have one with a bit of history is absolutely awesome. Good luck with it!

[John D.]

Looks great in red

[wy906]

swilding said:

...... Looking through the history I have an invoice from Bell & Colvill who carried out the '190' upgrade in 2004. On this invoice they have printed the below comment :-

"Behind rear cabin panel on the bulkhead is lots of writing and signatures wishing happy motoring to the last exige built"

Nice touch.

Very nice car.

[JayTee94]

That is very very good. I think you have got the best color scheme for the S1 Exige and with the added bonus of the signitures.

Enjoy and don't crash it!

[escortwagon]

absolutely lovely, and a nice bit of history behind it. I'm sure some of those folks will be pleased to know it's still going

[Another Fluffer]

Never seen a red S1 Exige before, looks quite tasty!

[200Plus Club]

thats a nice talking point to have.

[chevronb37]

There seemed to exist an enormous amount of affection for the Exige within Lotus. What a great piece of history and thanks for sharing.

[DanDC5]

I've just a had a crisis.

[bordercontrol]

S1 Exige is my favourite car of all time. I absolutely adore them!

[St. Anger]

Very very nice, look after it!

[melvster]

Gorgeous, a classic now if not a future classic.

[rowey200]

I like that a lot! Great story

[Embryonic]

Crumbs. What a fabulous thing that is.

[CypherP]

Brilliant post, fabulous car. That kind of sign off from engineers and people involved always makes me smile. Really adds something special to the car.