Back to Lotus after 38 years
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I have just brought a Lotus LF1 Exige after a 38 year absence, I have just traded in my Holden v8
6.2 525bhp.
It will be sad to see her go 12 years of great sounding motoring.
I won’t take delivery of the Lotus for a few weeks but can’t wait.
Back in the day I have had a mark one Lotus cortina all 3 europa,s
And a s2 esprit.
My only concern with the LF1 is getting in and out of the car without damaging
the leather door sill.
I was thinking of having it replaced with carbon fiber.
Does anybody have any idea how much that is lightly to cost me.
Is it worth doing as I want to keep the car as original as possible.
Thank you in advance for your thoughts Terry.
6.2 525bhp.
It will be sad to see her go 12 years of great sounding motoring.
I won’t take delivery of the Lotus for a few weeks but can’t wait.
Back in the day I have had a mark one Lotus cortina all 3 europa,s
And a s2 esprit.
My only concern with the LF1 is getting in and out of the car without damaging
the leather door sill.
I was thinking of having it replaced with carbon fiber.
Does anybody have any idea how much that is lightly to cost me.
Is it worth doing as I want to keep the car as original as possible.
Thank you in advance for your thoughts Terry.
Hi Terry ,
Cant answer your question , but great to know that i'm not the only oldie getting a ''new '' lotus .
The LF1 is a dream car ( so really enjoy it ) , and I would have loved one , but I am very happily settling for a 189 bhp N/A 2010 Elise R S3 in Chrome Orange .
I bought it from Jamie Matthews at Bell an Colvill in Jan , and Phil Marking has prepared it for me , and I am hoping to collect it from B&C next week .
My first lotus was meant to be the 1989 Elan - I placed an order for one t the 1989 London Motor Show , but withdrew my order after waiting 18 months with the price appearing to rise every month !
So , i'm excited to get my first lotus after a 30 year wait .
Re the carbon fibre sills : I am fortunate enough to have 1 carbon bodied car , and 1 carbon bodied and carbon chassied car .
I would say , think very carefully about getting CF sills as they scratch so very easily , and once they do , its really difficult , if not impossible to conceal the scratch .
I am planning on putting a plastic wrap ( what kids put on the covers of their books ) on the sills of the Elise R , as I too am worried about scruffing the leather covered sills .
I see that you are in Devon , so not so far away , and maybe i'll get to see your LF1 someday .
Enjoy your toy
Cant answer your question , but great to know that i'm not the only oldie getting a ''new '' lotus .
The LF1 is a dream car ( so really enjoy it ) , and I would have loved one , but I am very happily settling for a 189 bhp N/A 2010 Elise R S3 in Chrome Orange .
I bought it from Jamie Matthews at Bell an Colvill in Jan , and Phil Marking has prepared it for me , and I am hoping to collect it from B&C next week .
My first lotus was meant to be the 1989 Elan - I placed an order for one t the 1989 London Motor Show , but withdrew my order after waiting 18 months with the price appearing to rise every month !
So , i'm excited to get my first lotus after a 30 year wait .
Re the carbon fibre sills : I am fortunate enough to have 1 carbon bodied car , and 1 carbon bodied and carbon chassied car .
I would say , think very carefully about getting CF sills as they scratch so very easily , and once they do , its really difficult , if not impossible to conceal the scratch .
I am planning on putting a plastic wrap ( what kids put on the covers of their books ) on the sills of the Elise R , as I too am worried about scruffing the leather covered sills .
I see that you are in Devon , so not so far away , and maybe i'll get to see your LF1 someday .
Enjoy your toy
I bought a pair of Carbon inner cil covers from Elise shop for £ 250
https://www.elise-shop.com/interior-carbon-fibre-c...
Leather ones were easily removed and after having the Carbon ones Ppfd , fitted them . They looked a treat
https://www.elise-shop.com/interior-carbon-fibre-c...
Leather ones were easily removed and after having the Carbon ones Ppfd , fitted them . They looked a treat
Finally picked the car up at the end of June.
Every one who has seen it says it looks stunning, i have to agree it does.
Looks way better in the flesh than in a photo.
Now i have owned it for a couple of months i am getting used to it.
Loving every second i am in it, now the weather is on the change i
wont be putting to many miles on the clock.
Every one who has seen it says it looks stunning, i have to agree it does.
Looks way better in the flesh than in a photo.
Now i have owned it for a couple of months i am getting used to it.
Loving every second i am in it, now the weather is on the change i
wont be putting to many miles on the clock.
those look indeed good, are there only 81 of those? what number do you have?
got this picture from the web link as example.
https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/lotus-exige-lf1-vie...
got this picture from the web link as example.
https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/lotus-exige-lf1-vie...
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