old school drug dealer motor

 

...nice car but you really have to be a purist to buy one...bit like my 348!

 

Proper Cossy killer

 

One of my all time favourite cars

 

Good taste that man

What an amazing machine-I would love one but the stories you hear

 

lovely car.... thats defo on my list of all time classic beasts

 

whats these stories then?! i don't think i've ever heard any bad reports about the LC?

 

they have a apetite for most parts mechanical clutches etc and a clutch is roumoured to be a £1500 job

 

Clutches, engines,bodywork,suspension they all have stories attached to them, most of them very scary-and parts are almost non existant for them too-so cant be used daily unless you have a back up car
Such a shame as they are such awesome looking cars
Definately one for my dream garage-where it would never break down or go wrong

 

my mate works for bae systems in edinburugh and he has one too!!

 

he just moved from edinburugh down south somewhere

 

derek ward is his name but i dont think its him cos he has just bought a new house up here,,and he has had his for 2-3 years but maybe your mate will know the name,,i think he fixes computers

 

 

legendry up there with my top 10 cars, such a beast proper yardi's gangsta car

 

 

hmmm Lotus Carlton or 348.... sorry mate the Vauxhall wins

 

My mate runs a garage, one of his customers has a Lotus Carlton.

My god - does it cost him some money!!!

It spends more time in the garage than at home.

Head gaskets, radiators, oil coolers, brakes- all specialist - all made to order, for a fortune.

Still an awesome car!

One day he had my cossie, an M3 and the Carlton on his forecourt - looked the tits!

 

Lucky cunt!

 

I heard you can't get headgaskets or bolts, ecu's (loads of people kill the ecu when they try and chip it) and a set of discs and pads is £2k

I'd love one, but I'd never be able to afford to run it. I do fancy a GSI24v as an alternative though

 

Gus - is that from round London/Hertfordshire way, as the plate looks very familiar.....

 

My uncle own a minter of one. Bllody awesome cars, not as unrealiable people seem to think, although parts are dam expensive.
He was quoted £600 for a pair of discs awhile back.
Head bolts arent made in this country anymore and replacements are ordered from germany.
Clutches can be funny too but generally my uncles has been ok.
I WILL buy one day, i remmeber when we first went out in it, 5 up, changed up from 3rd at around 125
Very long gearing in them, 6th is good for 44mph per 1000rpm, which means at 4000 your doing about 180

 

lovely cars
awsome performance my mate had one back in 1996,he gave his k reg black escort cosworth and £15k back then

 

 

quality motor

 

awesome motor

 

You don't have to pay anywhere near that for Brake parts though! Just don't buy the bits through Vauxhall!

Its like Porsche 959 Tyres... buy them from Porsche and they are about £3k I think

OR £600 direct from the maunfacturer as I remember

I like Lotus Carltons

 

They're not particularly quick unless you have LOTS of runway. AT Brunters on the first top speed shoot-out I ever went to, one fitted with bleed valves to up the boost did 161mph. My Sapphire (with 385bhp on four 803s and a T34/0.48a/r), did 172mph on the same day .

They would only get even NEAR their claimed top speed in fifth, and sixth is just an overdrive and it cannot pull the speeds claimed above in this gear . Fastest one was ever timed at was mid 170s - needed about 50 miles to get there though .

I actually chased one home on Tuesday night (B16 VLC) on the A47 Norwich bypass. Unfortunately I was in the Freelander, so everytime the traffic cleared, he just fucked off into the distance for me to reel him in again when he caught the traffic . Looked mint as well - obviously out for a joy ride, as he double back up the bypass at the end of it .

 

i havent seen one on the road for years

 

thats sweett

 

Lovely car , My Dads mate had 1 and it was awesome he owns west coast motorcycles and said to my dad its the only car that gives him the same buzz as a Motorbike.

 

my dream car

 

are you on about gary evens?

 

my friend has one of these.
crazy car.

very nice

 

Are they a paddle clutch as standard?

I can remember Autocar getting Richard Noble to try and test the top speed in the UK. He got up to about 160ish but I think they had to use Nardo to get over a true 170?

There was a big house I used to drive past down Evesham way that had 2 parked on the driveway - always used to slow down for a good stare..

They've certainly got road presence - there's one round this way and when it suddenly looms up behind you looks impressive. If I win the lottery I shall buy one

Didn't Harvey have one or two?

 

He has had three. His ex-wife stacked the first one, he sold the second and I organised purchase of the third from a guy in Gt Yarmouth, which a year later he sold for more than he paid for it .

 

Very nice, a car that made cossie owners quake in their boots back in the day, near the 50k mark when they came out, back then that was a fuck of a lot of money, i remember trying to think of ways of coming up with 25k to by a 4x4 saff when i was 19 so there was no way i could ever bust/get the Lotus Carlton,

I have heard that they are not a very nice drive though??


Charlie

 

I'm sure I remember reading that a std Morris Minor will outdrag one from 40-60 in their respective top gears as the turbos aren't really awake with that long gearing at low speeds

0-100 in 10.6 though looking at the original road tests

 

8000 miler anyone

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www...ch_full=SEARCH

£40000

thats new M3 money

 

two of my friends have Lotus Carltons (well one is a LHD omega) and they are AWESOME

 

The main problem is the arches rot right through. Even the mint low milers. You can only see it when you remove the bodykit