My New To Me Lotus

[phumy]

Took ownership of this little beauty on Sunday and am really pleased with myself and the car its a `96 Esprit V8 3.5, all original and in very nice condition. Full service history and a decent low mileage, lots of work been done and getting cam belts done next week.

Edited by phumy on Friday 10th July 17:31

[roboxm3]

Love the OZ wheels on these!
Lovely car

[LanceRS]

Very nice, definitely a dream garage car.

[phumy]

I had some money that was earning nothing in the bank and had an empty garage so decided to bite the bullet and plunge into this, I can enjoy the car and hopefully I wont lose too much on it over the next few years, I know it will take a bit to maintain but that's what I pay for the enjoyment of driving it.

Edited by phumy on Wednesday 8th July 19:12

[OMG_TURBOZ]

Gorgeous!!!!

[neilbauer]

Weird I was deleting some stuff of the hard drive today and watched an episode of wheeler dealers with one of these in similar colour, didn't like the interior they put in it though. Yours looks v nice

[phumy]

neilbauer said:

Weird I was deleting some stuff of the hard drive today and watched an episode of wheeler dealers with one of these in similar colour, didn't like the interior they put in it though. Yours looks v nice

I think the Wheeler Dealer one was the older "Square/Sharper" shaped model, the old James Bond one I think.

[Tickle]

That is beautiful!

Well done, looking forward to reading your updates too.

[phumy]

Tickle said:

That is beautiful!

Well done, looking forward to reading your updates too.

Updates will probably come over the winter months as I intend to use it at every available weekend in the summer and take it off the road in the winter and look at doing suspension, brakes and generally tidying up and keeping on top of the usual problems with these cars.

[neilbauer]

phumy said:

neilbauer said:

Weird I was deleting some stuff of the hard drive today and watched an episode of wheeler dealers with one of these in similar colour, didn't like the interior they put in it though. Yours looks v nice

I think the Wheeler Dealer one was the older "Square/Sharper" shaped model, the old James Bond one I think.

Yes now you mention it, you're right it was.

[Fartgalen]

It's a beaut !

[phumy]

Went over to Cheddar Gorge last night and took a few shots of the car, it drives really good and sounds amazing up in the gorge.

[so roll me further bitch]

Awesome, how do you find the performance. What would you compare it to

[phumy]

This is the quickest car I have had so I cannot give you that comparison, however the guy I bought it off likened the performance of the Esprit to the Lotus Carlton performance. Completely different engines, dynamics and weights I know but still pretty quick.

[cosworth330]

They have one of these for sale at UK sports cars Wingham near Canterbury, 96 model same colour, I thought it looked fantastic. I was thinking of going back to an older car with zero depreciation. Hope you enjoy it.

[phumy]

cosworth330 said:

They have one of these for sale at UK sports cars Wingham near Canterbury, 96 model same colour, I thought it looked fantastic. I was thinking of going back to an older car with zero depreciation. Hope you enjoy it.

You mean there was one for sale at UK Sports Cars

[SPT28]

Simply fantastic - one of my bedroom wall poster cars that I could stare at all day long.

One day...

[LittleEnus]

Fabulous! What a stunner. Enjoy.

[Snubs]

Having just posted on the £100k car thread and had a few people point out that the Esprit i was commenting had been bought by a PHer, i'll say here what i said there. The Esprit in that blue is just stunning. I'm indescribably jealous

[anonymous-user]

Oh lordy... gorgeous