What do you think of this Elan?

AANGEBODEN EEN ZEER MOOIE LOTUS ELAN SPRINT CONVERTIBLE RHD.

MOTOR 4-CIL 1558 CC 126 PK KLEUR GEEL .

Asking Price: ? 21.500,00

http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php3?url=http%3A//kopen.marktplaats.nl/auto_s/lotus/c127.html

Hm not sure? :unamused: Maybe someone can tell me if it is a real Gold Leaf, ok itā€™s from '71, but apart from thatā€¦ help :laughing:

Janus,
A ā€œGold Leaf Elanā€ is only a Sprint painted in Gold Leaf colours, that is (was?) a cigarette company who I think were sponsoring Lotus in F1 at the time, same goes for a ā€œJPSā€ car (black and gold)
Gold Leaf colours were red/white and gold (someone correct me if Iā€™m wrong) so this Elan is not technically a Gold Leaf but it looks like a very nice car.
Brian.

Is it a real gold leaf?

No its just a cheap bit of vinyl stuck on the side (sorry couldnā€™t resist) :slight_smile:

Any chance you could resize that pic!

Have a look underneath the car :open_mouth: its got a BIG leakā€¦oil?water? or has it just been washed :laughing: :laughing:
Brian

ah ok I thought Gold Leaf stands even for Elans painted like this one (and the blue one ā€¦pistachio, brownā€¦)???

@ M100

how did you find it outā€¦Iā€™m still learning :stuck_out_tongue:

here is a picture from the underneath

the car has no replacement chassis

sorry couldnā€™t resize the pictures; actually I thought tinypic.com would do that for me :confused:

[quote=ā€œJanusā€]
how did you find it outā€¦Iā€™m still learning ]

Find out what? if you are refering to the oil leak, it can be seen under the car in the first pic and on the exhaust on the second picā€¦could be leaking from the slave cyl. although thereā€™s a bit to much on the ground, most likely its the rear crank seal but thats a guess.
From the second pic it looks like its been recently painted black underneath (including the sump!) probably for sale.
Have you driven the car? is it on Webers/Dellotors?
Lets see a pic of the engine.
Brian

Fun and Games. When does a paint job have anything to do with the driveability or performance of any automobile? When itā€™s a Lotus Elan. Has this car been repainted? Check the chassis closely, that underside picture is scary and the price even more so.

Looks like someone took a rattlecan of glossy black paint to cover over and hide the corrosion on the chassis. Buyer beware!

sorry havenā€™t got a picture of the engine ā€¦saw that leak only when I posted the picture :unamused:

thank you very much for your helpā€¦ I think I have got to wait to find the right car :imp: