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Postby daver27 » Wed 02.01.2008, 05:00

Hello everyone:

This website is a great resource.

I just purchased an M100 in the Vancouver Canada area and it is in need of paint. I was wondering if anybody out there has done the red upper/white lower with gold between paint scheme. I did it to my Europa and it looks great and it looks like the M100 will get the same treatment but I'm not certain where I should put the gold stripe on the nose and tail.

I think the Gold Leaf colours have been done every Lotus model but have never seen it on an M100.

There's only about 20 M100's in Canada so there's no way you will ever park beside the same paintjob here.

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Postby Dave Eds » Wed 02.01.2008, 08:46

There were some pics of one on here somewhere! May have been the ebay thread. Was a GB car.
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Postby cjay » Wed 02.01.2008, 09:22

There was one at Donington a few years back, I have a pic somewhere but it was a bit fugly if you ask me.
I wonder what color the next one will be?
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Postby rip » Wed 02.01.2008, 09:37

An ugly Elan? That will be a first.
The M100 is so attractive that it looks good in the worst of colours. Even Medina Green does not make it ugly. (It has a good try though :D )
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Postby Specky » Wed 02.01.2008, 13:15

Oh yeah...

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Postby Dave Eds » Wed 02.01.2008, 13:28

Well done Specks :wink:

Surprised it didn't make the calendar though :-D
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Postby Enright » Wed 02.01.2008, 13:30

Aaargh! That's the one!
If the bottom of the doors were white, the spoiler was red and the gaudy stripes reduced to just a single gold pinstripe between the white and the red then maybe, but that has been well and truly Benked. :-D
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Postby rip » Wed 02.01.2008, 13:38

:agree:

Even an Elan cannot pull that off.
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Postby daver27 » Wed 02.01.2008, 16:48

Yikes!!!!
those pictures turned me off the idea for a while.
Thanks (I think) for the help
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Postby dapinky » Wed 02.01.2008, 17:17

Yep.........



....It's definately an ugly job :roll:
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Postby Gary » Wed 02.01.2008, 17:19

I thought there was another that looked better than that one?
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Postby Dave Eds » Wed 02.01.2008, 17:21

Gary wrote:I thought there was another that looked better than that one?


There was another :wink:

But I wouldn't say it was better :(
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Postby Gary » Wed 02.01.2008, 19:16

Any pics? (I quite liked it !)
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Postby GeoffSmith » Wed 02.01.2008, 19:30

Completely tasteless IMHO. Now if it was done subtly like the original, it might be a different matter.


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Postby GeoffSmith » Wed 02.01.2008, 19:48

Maybe something like this.
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Postby Dave Eds » Wed 02.01.2008, 20:31

geoffsmith wrote:Maybe something like this.


With gold wheels?


BTW for Gary's benefit the one we referred to is page 2 on the Fleabay thread but link long time gone :roll:
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Postby Enright » Wed 02.01.2008, 21:04

geoffsmith wrote:Maybe something like this.

Spot on. :smt023
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Postby GeoffSmith » Wed 02.01.2008, 21:16

Dave Eds wrote:With gold wheels?


Good idea.
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Postby Dave Eds » Wed 02.01.2008, 21:29

geoffsmith wrote:
Dave Eds wrote:With gold wheels?


Good idea.


Now you got me thinking Geoffers :roll:

What would the back end look like? :wink:
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Postby Gary » Wed 02.01.2008, 21:30

Like it !

Infact maybe I should talk to Gillian about getting our red one a bottom half re-spray....
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