Re: Plus 2 or Plus 2S
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 4:28 pm
LotusArchives wrote:The red +2 that started this all is a 1969 car, although as stated in the sale list, while production of the car started in 1969, it was not completed/passed to sales until 1970. Reason for delay unknown.
In 1969 there were 3 models being manufactured that I am aware of;
S/E (noted as special equipment in the build file - standard version),
E/E (emission equipment model for the US),
S ('S' upmaket factory built version with plusher trim).
As with all manufacturers, the +2 along with other Lotus models had running changes which is why a early car will have some differences to a later car.
Also remember the +2 was sold worldwide, so just because it does not appear on a UK price list does not mean it didn't exist, and as we know sometimes unsold stock got reworked and sold to the domestic market like the 50+ Federal unsold +2 E/E cars that were reworked and sold in the UK. The white car sale that was linked above is one of those.
So the S/E was another name for the first +2 or is the S/E the altered +2? I'm a little confused to be honest as my early +2 doesn't appear to say S/E anywhere? and the last later non s i saw close up had a different boot floor and exhaust arraignment among other things that made me thing it was a different model. (Forgetting Federal cars which where some thing different again)
Yep i get old stock got retrofitted, you don't have to tell me that i have two such cars. I guess Lotus had a habit of playing with unsold stock when it had sat for a while.
Maybe they are all the same and it's just me.... But i saw lots of them when i was buying mine.