Hello Chaps

thought you might like to see my mates Lotus Calton rebuild. He bought a perfectly useable LC but decided he wanted one 'as new'
What followed was the purchase of 3 LCs, a massive fire, the loss of a load of parts and a shed load of money.

I would have given up half way through and

But he continued and carried on throwing vast amounts of cash, time and love at it and is now the proud owner of the Best LC in existance

Just click on the link below to go to his dedicated website

http://www.lc890g.co.uk/

Hope you enjoy.

Any comments will be passed onto him.

Cheers

Paul

 

that must have been a kick in the stones having all that hard work wasted and for it all to go up in flames

 

dave franczaks car?

Awesome rebuild that, and the photos simply do not do the finished car justice, its immaculate!

 

Yes mate

Mr Franczaks car.

It is truly stunning

Thought I would post the web link up as the Passionford people appreciate hard work and a classic motors!

 

top project!

wounder about the fire

it must have cost a fortune to do tho!

 

Stunning

 

my mate bought one that was coverted into an estate car for a business demo vehicle, he still has it and the orig shell too !!

looks a bit sorry for itself in corner of the garage at the minute though !!

 

great link and hats off to the guy!!

 

did this bloke run his own company from the workshop,if so he wired up a mates astra gte turbo a few months before the fire happened

 

just noticed your from luton so you might know my mate who used to own the astra,his name is craig staff and i used to go to school with his brother matt

 

Blimey, there I was having a little browse of this section and suddenly realised this thread was on my car.

Cheers for the comments guys, cars still well (although now in hibernation for the winter) but after all the work i'm still really pleased with the finished result

Any questions or further details you want just ask and i'll do my best to respond.

 

Fair play to the bloke

Well done for carrying on with it after the fire

 

And to think I was just about to send you the link

 

I have got one question actually Dave


What was the final cost?

Would it have been cheaper to buy a new one

 

Who knows and who cares tbh, price is irrelevant for the right outcome and its only gonna increase in value over time.

Its not as bad as you may think being that I did soooo much myself

 

Dave

You are the eternal optimist, your pint glass is truly half full

Well done chap, as you said, the result is amazing. And I guess you'll never sell it so it doesn't really matter what it cost......Well unless a cheap F40 comes up for sale??

Paul

 

F40 mmmmmm


One day

 

Theres a bloke thats got one of these in the village i live in its been sat in his garage for the last 6 years with a genuine 18000 miles on it.
He's 1 of my stepdads mates and he's been trying to haggle it off him for the past few years but he wont sell it i think he said that its build number 14 or 15.