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Lotus Lada
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".... even with all the Lotus work, it's a tad on the pricey side "
Take a look at the arches. Did they strip the car and put the original bodywork back on? It doesn't look like a 100k car to me.
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If you think about what people charge by the hour for labour on cars and it did have a team of lotus bods working on it for a week. The people from lotus said that's what they would charge to do it though there was probably less than £5k in parts.
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Exactly - it wouldn't be all that hard to build one if you had the time or the inclination.
The Lampredi Twin-Cam is common as muck in breakers yards - having been fitted to most mid / large sized Fiat / Lancias from the 60s onwards....
Looking at it - I reckon the retrim would have been the most expensive bit.
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Whoa - too many double negatives :-)
Peter
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I suspect that it would be modified so that it was close to Integrale spec...
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"James" wrote
erm, missing a turbocharger...
I got the Guy Croft book (signed) for my birthday and the 180BHP is a high revving 180BHP, so not loads of torque. There's a very nice lightened flywheel in there. Wouldmake it rev like a motorbike!
I'd whack in an Integrale Evo unit or better still a Series 3 Thema LS turbo engine - very clever head configuration on those.
I would have had the car, Who bought it? Top Gear might have bought it back?
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"pi"
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It seems to have gone to a german with a lotus fixation. (If you click on the 72 next to the winning bidders name you can find a list of some of the recent auctions they have been involved in) You could also search for the user name by bidder and seller if they were not German.
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One can never not have too few double negatives....