Anyone know this car?

pd-go.com/index.php?action=w … SiteID=409

Thoughts?

same as this one
cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Lotus-EL … 3aUSQ3a101

chassis 45/6936 engine LP 7964 invoice may 5th 1967

Thanks.

gary where did you get the production date and engine #?

sportscarworld.com/

click on
ALL LOTUS SERIAL
NUMBERS AND INFO

right click on
ELAN S1-S2-S3-S4
and open in new window
after it opens

click on
File

then
Save

What do the letters before the engine number signify? LP, G, K…

Dan

Cool deal

For any curious, I found an earlier email from Gary as to what the letters before the engine numbers signify:

C, D, E, F of wich there is a listing for only C and D weber types
G Stromberg Federal
H Super S/E
K Standard Domestic
L S/E Domestic
LP Probably all weber as I didn’t see any serial # higher than 8600
M S/E stromberg domestic

I thought I had seen it before, but couldn’t find it right away.

Dan

Wasn’t LP for Lotus parts, and indicating it was a replacement part? I seem to remember something like that, but can’t find it with a quick 5 minute look.

Rob

Hi Rob
The quote that dan used is from the topic below and is taken somewhat out of context. LP is Lotus Production or maybe Lotus Part to some.
elan-f14/elan-production-numbers-t14219.html

Dans question as to the prefixes is answered in Miles Wilkins book on Twin Cams on page 180 in the book I have. It is in Part Three at the start of the twin cam data section and labeled
I Engine Identification

LP is not one of the Prefixes that has any significance as to the spec of the engine. What I was refering to in the quote is the engines listed in Frank Bertrang’s production records of Elans in the .PDF listed on Sports Car World.

And, perhaps even more definitively, by Lotus themselves in the first section of the Workshop Manual.

Tim

oops, didn’t mean to cause confusion.

Dan