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Re: Spotted

Postby cliff » Sun 09.12.2012, 22:12

Spotted this at the local Lotus dealer in Mainz, only the second one I have seen over here.

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Apparantly in there to be put on German plates.

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This was in the car park as well. 8)

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Would really like a test drive, especially with an unrestricted autobahn nearby. :twisted:
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Re: Spotted

Postby nyssa7 » Mon 31.12.2012, 17:58

Spotted a very clean (impressive in current weather) red M100 parked on square just near Tony Blair's London residence last night. Not sure which was the bigger surprise, the Elan or the uniformed officer standing on the traffic island with machine gun by his side!
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Re: Spotted

Postby owentec » Wed 02.01.2013, 12:49

In a similar vein to my last spotted, if you watch the deleted scenes on the DVD of the film Love Actually, the beginning of one of them has a red Elan driving down a London street. I can't make out the reg, but it's an SE with early number plate cover.

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Re: Spotted

Postby trig » Wed 09.01.2013, 19:36

Spotted this morning BRG going through Old Market Bristol 9.20am ,, JonT ??
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Re: Spotted

Postby JonT » Wed 09.01.2013, 21:32

trig wrote:Spotted this morning BRG going through Old Market Bristol 9.20am ,, JonT ??

:smt006 Woohoo, spotted at last. Yup, 'twas me. Just started a new job so commuting daily to Long Ashton. Don't remember seeing you in yours?
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Re: Spotted

Postby trig » Thu 10.01.2013, 09:12

JonT wrote:
trig wrote:Spotted this morning BRG going through Old Market Bristol 9.20am ,, JonT ??

:smt006 Woohoo, spotted at last. Yup, 'twas me. Just started a new job so commuting daily to Long Ashton. Don't remember seeing you in yours?


Don't be silly I dont drive mine :lol: its sat in a warm garage till the sun shines :-D , you were follwing my Southern Electric van from Trinity church
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Re: Spotted

Postby rip » Mon 11.02.2013, 11:08

Silver Elise, Rama IV Road, Silom, Bangkok.
Nice to see any Lotus in my first full day in Thailand.
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Re: Spotted

Postby Rice crispy » Tue 12.02.2013, 20:28

NMY S2 in chadwell heath tonight about 6pm. Not seen it before locally
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Re: Spotted

Postby Dico » Fri 15.02.2013, 20:02

Pacific blue SE, H reg spotted eastbound on the M62 junction 20 yesterday (14th)
4+ hours stuck in a damp bucket seat with a mad Irishman at the wheel - Deep joy!!!!
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Re: Spotted

Postby Monty » Sun 17.02.2013, 23:52

Dico wrote:Pacific blue SE, H reg spotted eastbound on the M62 junction 20 yesterday (14th)



And it wasn`t Roger :poke:
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Re: Spotted

Postby GusMangoFish » Mon 18.02.2013, 00:13

trig wrote:Blue S2 N874 in Bristol Muller Rd hiding under a railway bridge :-)

Haha, this is mine :)

Looking at the date of your post and the location spotted, that was the day my clutch cable snapped and I had to limp it to the side of the road and leave it there...

Thankfully my local garage (Brookfield Garage on Ashley Down Road) picked it up for me, and made me a new clutch cable (nicked one out of an old Astra (or another Vauxhall) and slightly modified it iirc). Total cost, including collection, repair & VAT was £90! I was astounded it was so cheap - excellent service! :)
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Re: Spotted

Postby GusMangoFish » Mon 18.02.2013, 00:29

trig wrote:Blue S2 and silver SE at Castle Coombe today, the silver Elan was on track,,,I had to make do with the wifes Saab for my session
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Mine (complete with missing boot lock), next to my friend's M3 - which had just had a collission with another car. The silver SE is a friends too.
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Re: Spotted

Postby daveiow » Mon 25.02.2013, 16:50

White S2 reg M***YDL passing McDonalds towards Tesco roundabout at 12-45pm today.
Now this is a bit of a puzzle!
This S2 is an original 1994 Isle of Wight reg car so has been trundling around for the last 19 of years about 2miles from me without being spotted. I dought the owner is on LEC as I would like to think they may have made contact but you never know?

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Re: Spotted

Postby Rusty Wishbone » Mon 25.02.2013, 22:22

My first car, a Riley 1.5, was an Isle of Wight car, and had a number plate YDL nn. I liked it so much, I kept the number when I sold the car, and it now sits resplendant on my XC90 family car.

Incidentally, has anyone seen YDL 1? I sometimes ponder the slightly ridiculous idea of having more than one YDL plate on the drive. I believe that it is worn by an ageing Honda Civic.
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Re: Spotted

Postby Rice crispy » Thu 21.03.2013, 22:09

M plate nmy about 6pm on Bedford's park road
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Re: Spotted

Postby DaveT » Thu 28.03.2013, 20:09

BRG on A137 near Brantham Suffolk, 11 ish this am. Heading into Manningtree. Mrs T saw you first. I was dave dreaming.

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Re: Spotted

Postby P@ulW » Sat 30.03.2013, 13:36

J-reg NMY, 07:30 on the A387 to Looe, just around the corner from my house. Gave me a shock, until I saw the number plate I thought it was mine gone AWOL!
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Re: Spotted

Postby Steve A » Thu 04.04.2013, 19:58

A white one parked in Chelmsford today :shock:
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Re: Spotted

Postby pjw12 » Mon 08.04.2013, 11:16

BRG SE that was on chiswick roundabout / A4 last weekend, I was in the Red one :m100:
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Re: Spotted

Postby Steve A » Mon 08.04.2013, 11:53

A Medina at "the Hare" saturday morning, you couldn't get in the rammed car park and parked up the road
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