The Lotus Grand Tourers

Is this S2.2 Eclat in the records, videoed in Mayfair yesterday. WFY 16W

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1517868606180777

WFY 16W

Wasn't on the register. A new find - Thanks.

Link to chassis number 1586 if not on the rgister.

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1999119

Couple of GTs have just surfaced on eBay, located in Ludlow, stored with a number of other GTs:

Eclat Riviera, red, reg no. OHR 475X,
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326991673029 ... R7T_4ZyIZw

Elite “Launch Sales Demonstrator”, 1974, VIN plate no. 74020021A
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326988533420 ... Sw3MRphbCi

Have look at sellers other items too.

Bash

John Cornish of this parish...I went to his 'storage place' with the 'Penthouse Elite' last year to deliver it after the NEC restoration show....

Also; Lotus Elite June 1974. Rover V8 needing some TLC

Original reg. SAD 69N now 20 GUM. Originally Lagoon Blue with beige interior, now bronze

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326990653334 ... SwPI1ph3i8

I was out and about in Kent in my Elite today and got talking to the owner of Green Excel F227XNG from the under bonnet plate: VIN 089912JHD12625 ENG NO. DY912880424841 He does occasionally look up this site but is not registered. Is the car on the register? He's owned it 25 years, said it was a prototype, but wasn't sure of what? It was badged as an s.a

Andy

Green Excel F227XNG

It's on the register. Thanks for the VIN numbers Andy. You were lucky to spot it in the wild. Based on MOT data, it's regularly taxed and MOTed, but has only done 150 miles in the last 6 years !
I had it as an SA, but also a note it featured in some publicity brochures of the time. There's a photo of it outside some posh gaff hanging in the Bird In Hand.
More likely a publicity car than a prototype car.

Tony

PS: We are homing in on having 1000 cars identified - Over 1 in 5 of the RHD production across Elite, Eclat and Excel.

AndrewWebber wrote: Sun Apr 19, 2026 16:47 ...... Green Excel F227XNG from the under bonnet plate: VIN 089912JHD12625 ENG NO. DY912880424841 ........said it was a prototype, but wasn't sure of what? It was badged as an s.a

Andy

Possibly the first automatic option facelift Excel?

This has just popped up for sale on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/lotusel ... 198471118/

As a track-prepared car with no number plate - and it looks like it's not been used for a long while - I guess it may not have popped up before. Fortunately the seller has been good enough to include a photo of the ID plate, so we have the VIN.

Here's one you may not have, Tony. Yellow Elcat 504 No. 79/030815D.

In South Africa & it's just gone up for sale via auction:

https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/ ... uto-nQXM9g