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Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Wed Apr 04, 2018 4:53 pmby gjz30075
I know I posted this last year when the pictures came out for the 2017 tour and I don't think I got an answer (search doesn't bring it up), so, I'll ask again: Is this anyone we know? Looks like Maryland plates. This is from
the 2018 tour.
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:14 pmby denicholls2
Dunno, but I do like the blue. Close to Lagoon but it pops more.
Spoken by another fake Lagoon Blue Lotus owner.
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Fri Apr 06, 2018 3:41 pmby The Veg
What is this tour? A quick-n-dirty web search reveals nothing.
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Fri Apr 06, 2018 7:54 pmby knockoffnut
Wow I really like that blue. I would love to know what paint code that is.
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:55 pmby lotocone
The Veg wrote:What is this tour? A quick-n-dirty web search reveals nothing.
Here is some info Veg. Looks like it was last month in Georgia and Florida.
http://www.orangeblossomtour.com/
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:25 pmby gjz30075
Right. It's a precursor event, put on by Classic Motorsport magazine, to the Amelia Island Concours
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Sat Apr 07, 2018 5:18 pmby Famous Frank
The color is a 1964, 65, 66, 67 Medici Blue. I'm not sure if that's the same car but the good folks at Motorsports Magazine have been restoring a S1 Elan for the past 1 1/2 years as a magazine project. It's just recently finished and was presented at the Amelia Island Concours in Florida. The tour was a precursor to the Concours. It may be the same car.
Numerous vendors have been donating toward the restoration project. I donated interior components, R&D Enterprises donated numerous parts, and TwinCam Sportscars donated expertise. It's a great series of articles in restoring an early Elan that was beyond restoration possibilities. The article was called RESTORATION IMPOSSIBLE!
Frank
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Sat Apr 07, 2018 7:13 pmby pharriso
This car has Panasports & a rollbar, classic Motorsport can had neither...
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:44 amby elancoupe
Also, the car is the pic has window frames and front reflectors, the Classic Motorsport car is an S1.
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:31 amby The Veg
Hmmmmmmm, at $1100+ per day, I don't think I'll be on tour, not that they'd allow a shabby car like Yelotus anywhere near them anyway!
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Sun Apr 08, 2018 7:22 amby 1owner69Elan
Don?t know the owner but I think this may be the same car:
https://www.vintagerestorationsltd.com/ ... 20Elan.jpg
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:58 amby pharriso
That's the one... nice car!
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Sun Apr 08, 2018 11:58 amby lotocone
pharriso wrote:That's the one... nice car!
That's pretty similar to the one that's at Wire Wheel now. The front badge, wheels, and hood/bonnet are different though.
http://www.wirewheel.com/1970-Lotus-Ela ... dster.html
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:20 pmby knockoffnut
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Hi Frank, I have been collecting many pictures of both original unrestored cars and restored cars claiming to be Medici blue, and this one looks darker in these pictures than what I have seen as Medici. I am still trying to get some paint mixed up and/or matched to Medici blue to check against the old paint of my Seven S2 to see if it is in fact Medici Blue (in its first paint) It can be very difficult to get a representative photograph of some of these colours. Here are two pictures that I think are
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quite representative of Medici blue.
Re: Orange Blossom Trail tour. Whose blue Elan is this?
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Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:25 pmby knockoffnut
Sorry about the odd notes about the attachments in the post. I am still struggling with posting pictures.
