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Lotus Senator for sale...
« on: 14 June 2016, 21:36:29 »

Not mine, nothing to do with me, I've only been to me, to you, to Rotherham once.

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/190122/vauxhall-lotus-senator-sale-rotherham

Seller or seller's mate seems to be keeping it vague to avoid any tricky questions about provenance - but I still like it!
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Re: Lotus Senator for sale...
« Reply #1 on: 14 June 2016, 21:44:23 »

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no rust any where on the shell

This phrase worries me. I take it to mean anything extrenuous is rotting off ;D.

You're right, some odd wording but a nice motor nonetheless.
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Re: Lotus Senator for sale...
« Reply #2 on: 14 June 2016, 21:48:50 »

Nice little sleeper that, bet you could surprise some people with that  ;D
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Re: Lotus Senator for sale...
« Reply #3 on: 14 June 2016, 22:03:41 »

Sure I've seen that in the flesh at VBOA with Autobahnstormers at Billing.  :-\

Off I trot to check.  :)

Yep, it did belong to an ABS member.
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Re: Lotus Senator for sale...
« Reply #4 on: 14 June 2016, 22:48:30 »

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Yep, it did belong to an ABS member.

Pretty sure I remember it for sale on the ABS site for around £10 000 ....... IIRC I still had a bit of redundancy money left at the time but couldn't be arsed with the 'debate' we'd have had  ::)
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« Reply #5 on: 14 June 2016, 23:03:30 »

The mileage according to the M.O.T. history check is interesting to say the least
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Re: Lotus Senator for sale...
« Reply #6 on: 14 June 2016, 23:29:52 »

This is a well known car in ABS circles, having once been owned by the Chairman, or was if the Chairman's father in law? I think it's been through a few other hands since though.

Last I heard it was Ok, but it is what it is - effectively a one off project car built from the remains of 2 scrapped LC/LO's into a host Senator. If you fancy something a bit different and very rapid then fine.
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Re: Lotus Senator for sale...
« Reply #7 on: 15 June 2016, 07:26:54 »

This is a well known car in ABS circles, having once been owned by the Chairman, or was if the Chairman's father in law? I think it's been through a few other hands since though.

Last I heard it was Ok, but it is what it is - effectively a one off project car built from the remains of 2 scrapped LC/LO's into a host Senator. If you fancy something a bit different and very rapid then fine.

I remember it well, was it Jonathan Bennett that was the owner a few years ago?

It`s still a nice car and I always preferred the Senator rear quarter lights to the Carlton.
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« Reply #8 on: 15 June 2016, 07:32:51 »

The mileage according to the M.O.T. history check is interesting to say the least
It certainly is  ;D
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« Reply #9 on: 15 June 2016, 07:59:51 »

The mileage according to the M.O.T. history check is interesting to say the least
It certainly is  ;D

I was like "oh, looks like its had some new cloc- hang on, twice over?"

Is it a digi dash on these ones?
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Re: Lotus Senator for sale...
« Reply #10 on: 15 June 2016, 09:53:06 »

The mileage according to the M.O.T. history check is interesting to say the least
It certainly is  ;D

I was like "oh, looks like its had some new cloc- hang on, twice over?"

Is it a digi dash on these ones?

On a LC then no but I can`t remember if this has a digi dash or not.

Anyway, if anyone was interested there will be a lot of background on the ABS forum and I`m pretty sure all the work will be well documented.
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Re: Lotus Senator for sale...
« Reply #11 on: 15 June 2016, 09:55:25 »

Did I hear right that a very good LC was broken up to make this? that always saddened me greatly, I'd be much happier to know that two scrap/accident-damaged ones were chopped up instead.

Nice idea an 'LS', and of course, no idea why GM decided to make the Lotus Carlton, not the Lotus Senator, as the Senny was always aimed as being 'one up' from the Carlton.

Understand well over £30k was chucked into this project. Could be hearsay, of course.
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« Reply #12 on: 15 June 2016, 10:00:55 »

Did I hear right that a very good LC was broken up to make this? that always saddened me greatly, I'd be much happier to know that two scrap/accident-damaged ones were chopped up instead.

Nice idea an 'LS', and of course, no idea why GM decided to make the Lotus Carlton, not the Lotus Senator, as the Senny was always aimed as being 'one up' from the Carlton.

Understand well over £30k was chucked into this project. Could be hearsay, of course.

You need your reading glasses on DBG  ;D
This is a well known car in ABS circles, having once been owned by the Chairman, or was if the Chairman's father in law? I think it's been through a few other hands since though.

Last I heard it was Ok, but it is what it is - effectively a one off project car built from the remains of 2 scrapped LC/LO's into a host Senator. If you fancy something a bit different and very rapid then fine.
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Re: Lotus Senator for sale...
« Reply #13 on: 15 June 2016, 10:19:28 »

No, dear Mr Gav, I read that  ;) - my point being as I understood it, a perfectly serviceable - even very good nick - LC was dismantled/destroyed for its parts to make this.

Mr LC0112G says two scrapped LC/LOs were used as donors. But if you take an Mot'd, taxed car, then dismantle it, it becomes 'scrapped' - I was just inquiring whether before the donor vehicles were stripped, were either actually Mot'd, running cars, or were they both accident damaged/writeoffs/beyond saving etc?  :)
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Re: Lotus Senator for sale...
« Reply #14 on: 15 June 2016, 10:36:38 »

No, dear Mr Gav, I read that  ;) - my point being as I understood it, a perfectly serviceable - even very good nick - LC was dismantled/destroyed for its parts to make this.

Mr LC0112G says two scrapped LC/LOs were used as donors. But if you take an Mot'd, taxed car, then dismantle it, it becomes 'scrapped' - I was just inquiring whether before the donor vehicles were stripped, were either actually Mot'd, running cars, or were they both accident damaged/writeoffs/beyond saving etc?  :)

From memory - which isn't always 100% reliable - one of the 'donor' cars was James W's Lotus Omega, which is the Left hooker version of an LC. At the time LO's were worth around £10K-£15K depending on condition which was significantly less than an LC of the same quality. I don't know what James sold his car for or the condition of the car - it was a runner, taxed and MOT - more than that you'd have to ask him. I think some other (RHD specific) parts were salvaged from an already wrecked LC.

Again from memory, the shell of the stripped LO subsequently re-surfaced with another ABS member, and there was talk of rebuilding it. I don't know if that happened though
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