piss-ant wrote:I've looked at 26/5447 and 26/5642 in the last couple years. 26/5447 had body number 4820
and 26/5447 had body number 4861, it may be that the body were numbered sequentially as they are different enough that Lotus didn't use them on regular production (that I know of). Famous Frank has one too, his is a later production one (26/57xx), it would be nice to get some other body numbers to see if they were batched like I am guessing.
Gary
I think you made a typo above as you said 26/5447 had two different body numbers.
The body numbers do not go up like the unit numbers, I would guess it would be what ever body was either the right colour, or came to hand next prior to painting for that particular unit number.
Regarding how many S2 SE, we need Marty's time machine to go back to the 70s and tell them to take better care of the records and get them backed up before they got water damaged and dumped.
I've noticed the DVLA don't necessarily have the cars recorded as S2 S/E, so the "how many cars" database won't help either.
Only independant registries like this will give us a clue of how many are left
http://elanregistry.org/index.php