Very Sad - LOTUS ELAN 2+2 S130.

[ceejay]

No connection with this item or business, but found this while looking for
other lotus stuff.

I think we are all only to aware of this happening to our cars!
FRONT FIRE DAMAGE - LOTUS ELAN 2+2 S130 -
http://www.douglasvalley.co.uk/item.asp ... =71&pgid=2
A restoration project for someone perhaps.

[nebogipfel]

A restoration project for someone perhaps.

Category B ......it's deceased I'm afraid!

[Robbie693]

Blimey - that's the second burnt out Roman Purple car in a few months. Is Purple more flammable?!

Robbie

[dodo_z]

I think the engine is worth a look: 1,6liter 16valve

[john.p.clegg]

Tryping error I'd bet..

John

[billwill]

No logbook, which would make restoration difficult (?)

Even though it is classed category B, the categorizer might not have realised that fibreglass plus steel subframe means that such cars are infinitely repairable (though not an ECONOMIC project).

It all really depends on how much damage the fire did to the engine and the chassis. The fibreglass nose is replaceable. The interior looks bad, but it's mostly smoke & grime & water from the extinguishers.

[billwill]

I'm intrigued by the very open layout of that breakers yard as seen in the background of the pictures.

Are wide open breakers yards common oop North?

In London, the only breakers yards I've ever been to had small premises and cars piled 3-high on top of each other, originally dangerously so. I don't go very often last time was some years ago. However that was after Heath & Safety regs were applied and though still piled 2 or 2-high, they were 'racked' on steel building frames so that you couldn't get a major collapse.

[innesw]

That car has been at that breakers for almost a year now, I was looking into buying some interior parts off it last may but ended up just cleaning up my own...

Innes

[billwill]

Here's a body, not very far away, dead cheap, putting the dead +2 with this body & you would have most of a car (?)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/lotus-elan-2body- ... 415823bf19

[mrasmith]

I can't believe it!! Thats the second car I ever bought and my first proper one, always regretted selling. So sad! SNM 111J, sounded glorious and so much fun to drive.

[elanfan1]

You could only raid that car for parts because of the category - as someone else alluded if you can get the insurers to re-categorise it then there's a chance.

However what a lot of people fail to realise when there has been a fire is that the smoke and soot from the fire contains a lot of toxins, corrosives and maybe even carcinogens. Some of this will have passed into the fibreglass making it a nightmare to remove and potentially very dangerous to do so never mind the possibility of it making its way out through your fresh paint at sometime in the future.

The effect of a fire on many of the metal parts including the engine/box etc will be unknown - the fire will have probably reached over 1000 DegC a temperature the engine was never designed to see and how long it was exposed to that temperature is also unknown.

To my mind there are many potential pitfalls but as they say on the financial forums - Do your own research!

[Craig Elliott]

Could have been worse (in terms of damage that is)...

http://www.douglasvalley.co.uk/item.asp ... =68&pgid=2

Compared to the above a good going over with t cut would have the +2 up and running in no time!


C