Elaine Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Just been emailed a draft of the one for our S4s... It's number 38 of 92 cars made for the UK market. Only two made in Silk Red metallic, ours being the second. Quite rare then! Elaine&Reg.
TimSportsTourer Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 I'll be on the phone to them today. I need to do this, I think. So what are the chances that there are two silk-red Esprits in MLOC?
John FISH Curtis Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 I need to do this too. Can I ask how much Lotus charge?
Elaine Posted June 27, 2013 Author Posted June 27, 2013 I think's it's about £35-£40 for a standard certificate & letter. I ordered the additional information, so it cost £53. Here's the link with more details... http://www.lotuscars.com/gb/ownership/certificate-provenance
Mutley00 Posted June 28, 2013 Posted June 28, 2013 It's number 38 of 92 cars made for the UK market. Only two made in Silk Red metallic, ours being the second. Quite rare then! I think the other 90 are yellow like mine judging by some of the photos at Club Lotus Day!
Elaine Posted June 28, 2013 Author Posted June 28, 2013 I think the other 90 are yellow like mine judging by some of the photos at Club Lotus Day!
TimSportsTourer Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 Graham sent me mine in the e-mail today. I've had a fascinating discussion with him by email over the last few days. We've really learned a lot about the history of the car. As for the rareness quotient, he said this: Your car was the 4th out of 69 cars (worldwide), Your car was the 3rd out of 35 cars for the UK, Your car was the 1st out of 10 cars in Silk Red (worldwide), Your car was the 1st out of 7 cars in Silk Red (for the UK), Your car was the only car in Silk Red with grey leather trim (worldwide). (Note: there was 1 UK car in a one-off metallic BMW red with light grey leather). As Elaine says, pretty rare. Of course, with only 69 cars worldwide, and presumably about 20 colours to choose from and four or five choices of interior trim, it's probably unlikely that any two will be identical. It made me laugh, though. I rang Graham to ask him to do this for me, and we chatted for a bit. He said, "Hold on. Do you want me to grab the build file?" Now the car is 20 years old, so I fondly imagined him going to the cellar and dusting off a file on long aisles of archive storage boxes, but he was gone for perhaps a minute. Lotus have obviously built so few cars that all the build files are within arm's reach of the phone. We really do have hand-built, boutique machines. Fascinating, and rather fun, I think. Overall, I rate the experience of getting this certificate of provenance very highly. It has been fascinating to explore the history of my car, almost a bit of forensic archeology. Perhaps it was special to me because my car was a press car, and so there's more known about its early life than most, I expect. But it was a great experience. Graham appears to be a top bloke, and I recommend anyone to ring him up and ask for the low-down on their cars.
John FISH Curtis Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 I think's it's about £35-£40 for a standard certificate & letter. I ordered the additional information, so it cost £53. Here's the link with more details... http://www.lotuscars...cate-provenance Thanks
a7esk Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 Yes its good to get all the history as mine 1 off only 3 made which mine us no 1 special built 111R
Alex B Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 could anyone pm me the contact details for Graham say i wanna ask a few questions about a 135R im looking at.
Martin R Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 Its Andy Graham and the details are http://www.lotuscars.com/gb/ownership/certificate-provenance
TimSportsTourer Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 I have sent for one as i could not resist I'm glad I'm not the only one who caved, Martin. Enjoy!
Keif Posted July 12, 2013 Posted July 12, 2013 I have one for my Lotus Carlton too. Nice piece to have. May frame it yet.
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