Plastic coated chassis?

[Robbie693]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3547866.htm

See description at the bottom - Plastic coated chassis, I thought it meant powder coated i.e. Spyder but 'Lotus experimental'?

Robbie

[jono]

I once had a roll cage nylon coated as an alternative to powder coating.

..I wonder if this is the same thing?

Jon

[Elanintheforest]

Whatever it may be, the car does look quite stunning, and a very good price. And it has one of the forward facing (writing) Big Valve cam covers....worth millions on its own!

Mark

[Craig Elliott]

Interesting that it's identified as a Lotus experimental chassis as the hubs look to be 4 bolt rather than the normal +2 spinner type - wonder if it's a Spyder/Lotus hybrid (i.e. a Lotus chassis repaired/modified by Spyder) with Ford hubs?

[pharriso]

& where did the gray (grey) interior come from? A real Heinz-mobile...

[Orsom Weels]

I saw this car at a classic car show at Rippon race course in May last year, in fact the picture of it in the line of Lotus' looks as if was taken there. It certainly did look the part, indeed it helped to get me fired up to recomission mine ! The paintwork was beutiful, the chrome perfect & the interior had been retrimmed in leather & velour fabric & looked fantastic, the grey colour worked perfectly with the blue body colour. It looked as good underneath as it did on top, although I had thought the chassis was powder coated. The only thing I didn't like were the wheels, to my eye they didn't look quite right, I couldn't see enough to work out what had been done to change to bolt on hubs but the suspension looked like Spyder, which ties in with the description, so probably a Spyder conversion. The price didn't seem too bad considering the work that had obviously gone in to the car, I can't see where the 20K + cars advertised could be much better !

Regards, Tim