Elise GT1 at Bell and Colvill

[RobM77]

Anyone seen this? What a machine!! I had no idea how big they were in real life - the proportions in photos just make me think of an Elise sized car.

[F.C.]

RobM77 said:

Anyone seen this? What a machine!! I had no idea how big they were in real life - the proportions in photos just make me think of an Elise sized car.

If you mean the grey one (1996 MY) it is huge compared to a regular Elise/Exige platform.
And a bargain at £175000 ready for the road.
The last one they sold for £150000 and it needed full re-comissioning.

[chevronb37]

As 1997-era GT1 homologation specials go, these are phenomenally cheap!

[Jez49]

[Alexbturbo]

Awesome machine - decided to have a good look when i was in B&C last week collecting my Exige - if i won the lottery that would most definately be on the purchase list

[Gooby]

Number plate? It is SVA'd and road legal? What is the spec on these things?

[RobM77]

Gooby said:

Number plate? It is SVA'd and road legal? What is the spec on these things?

As per GT1 regs a road legal version was built (just the one I think!) and this is it. I believe it runs a full race version of the V8 from the Esprit. The racing ones had about 550bhp, though I'm not sure if that applies to the road version.

I'm just off to Bell and Colvill again to collect my Elise :-)