Car of your Dreams: Paul Newman's Lotus Esprit Turbo Race Car
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A Lotus for the Ages
In this newsletter, we'd like to show all of you a car owned by one of our regular customers, Ralph Stechow, who owns a company called RS Motorsports in Closter, NJ, which specializes in vintage Lotus repairs and maintenance. He's got a pretty wild Esprit:
"The history of my X180R racer 'Eleanor' is covered well in the Russo & Steele auction
link that you found. It was the second of two type 105s built in 1990 for the World Challenge series. Here is a link on Youtube to a show on Speed from 2009 that has great info & video of my car. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg8aqijcPxk
If the link does not automatically connect, copy & paste into Google.
I had searched for years for one of the 20 street legal homologation X180Rs. I finally ended up with two!
The photo with the three of them:
#1 of 20 is on the right, all original with just 2,000 miles I purchased from the original owner. #10 of 20 is on the left, was vintage raced by Doc Bundy. I put it back to original street configuration it has 9,000 miles on it.
Over last winter I started looking for one of the racecars. I heard that " Eleanor" might be for
sale. I contacted the gentleman that bought it at auction in 2014 and made the deal.
Thanks, Ralph"
How awesome is that!
That's almost it for this week!
Ryan's band of upcoming band dates: Maj Deeka Album Release at the Pour House, ............. Cygnus X2 (RUSH Tribute) upcoming shows, .............
And NOW that's it for this week!
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