New member - Manchester UK

[S2Zetec54]

She looks great…best of luck with the issues you have. Interesting to hear that a batch of USA Europas ended up back here…..I think I had one of those once

I got info from Lotus archive with the car confirming origin

Tony

…thanks Tony…good idea

Not sure if it's helpful but my 65 had a 1647 I'd robbed from a Renault 16TX and I just swapped over the DCOE that was on the 1470 and it seemed to go really well ……no idea what I was doing but it went brilliantly….clearly got lucky. Hopefully someone who knows what they are talking about can guide you more accurately

[Bodzer]

Morning Tony,

The PR suffix cars are quite well known about. There’s an article by Graham Arnold (Lotus PR legend) somewhere on here describing it. Apparently a change in Federal safety rules meant a batch of cars were stranded at the factory. Rather than waste them Lotus reworked them as domestic UK cars. Mine was also sold by Else motors. Whilst it’s not a full blown Else stage 5 car it had the single Weber carb with associated manifold, the 4 into 1 exhaust manifold and Spax shocks (probably stage 1).

Just another Lotus quirk!

[Tony Shep]

This is a letter that came with the car, from previous owner

[Tony Shep]

UPDATE

I'm using the car every day right now, going to work and getting into the local town, where it is getting a lot of attention

I still need to do some carb work but that can wait as I've got a small, much needed vacation coming up 

Tony