Esprit Turbo daga mutumin da ya kafa Lotus Colin Chapman

Motar da aka kame Margaret Thatcher

Kuna son samun motar da Colin Chapman da Margaret Thatcher ke tukawa? To sami wannan Lotus Esprit Turbo don siyarwa a Ingila.

Colin Chapman ya hau kan lotus. Lafiya, amma ina abin mamaki? Koyaya, gaskiyar cewa Margaret Thatcher ita ma ta gudanar da wannan Esprit Colin Chapman ba sananne ga mutane da yawa ba. Motar yanzu haka wani dillali ne ke siyar da motar a Farnham, Surrey, awa daya kudu maso yammacin London da kuma kusan awanni uku daga hedkwatar Lotus a Hettel.

An saki Colin Chapman's Lotus Esprit Turbo a cikin Fabrairu 1981 kuma an yi rajista don amfani da hanya a kan Agusta 1, 1981. Amma ba su yi tuƙi da yawa ba - ma'aunin saurin ya nuna mil 11 ko kusan kilomita 000. An sabunta azurfar ƙarfe na tsawon lokaci, kuma an adana cikin gida da kyau, in ji ɗan kasuwa Mark Donaldson. Matsar da hudu-Silinda turbo engine - 17 lita, don haka ya fara bayyana a 000. An maye gurbin bel na lokaci kwanan nan.

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Kayan aiki na musamman don Chapman

An ɗan gyara Colin Chapman Esprit tare da ƙarin tsarin sanyaya iska, tuƙin wuta da tace pollen da aka sanya a cikin motar - Chapman ya sha fama da zazzabin hay. An inganta rumbun don rage hayaniyar iska da inganta hatimi. An biya ƙarin hankali ga injin injiniya da tsarin birki fiye da yadda aka saba don daidaitattun samfuran. Kamar yadda aka riga aka ambata, Esprit an lacquered a cikin ƙarfe na ƙarfe. An yi ado da ciki da kyau tare da fata ja. Amma wannan ba shine kawai fasalin ba - mai yiwuwa, Chapman da kansa ya ba da umarnin shigar da tsarin kiɗa na Panasonic RM 6210 mai inganci tare da kwamiti mai kulawa akan rufin.

Labari mai kayatarwa, kilomita da yawa

Wanda ya kafa Lotus ba a ƙaddara don sarrafa Esprit na dogon lokaci ba. Motar wasanni da aka kera ta tsakiya ta yi tafiyar mil 4460 - kimanin kilomita 7100 - lokacin da Lotus ya sayar da motar a gwanjon a shekarar 1983. Chapman da kansa ya riga ya mutu yana da shekaru 54 daga bugun zuciya a 1982. An sayi Esprit a gwanjo. daga wani dan kasuwa a Leicester wanda ya sayar da shi ga wani abokin ciniki mai zaman kansa. Mai siye ya yi amfani da motar na ɗan lokaci, sannan bayan shekaru bakwai ya zauna, ya kai ta masana'anta a 1997 don hidima mai mahimmanci - lissafin da aka rubuta da hannu shine 5983,17 fam na Burtaniya. Bayan haka, Esprit ya yi kama da yin aiki ba tare da matsala ba yayin binciken fasaha. Lotus ya sake ziyartar motar a cikin shekaru biyu masu zuwa, tare da maye gurbin layin mai a 1998 kuma an sake kunna wutar a 1999. Esprit ta shiga cikin masu mallaka da yawa tun 2000 kuma daga ƙarshe ya koma ga mai na huɗu. Dan kasuwan da ya siyar da wannan bai bayar da rahoton farashin na yanzu ba. A cikin Jamus, Classic Analytics yana lura da ingantattun farashin Esprit Turbo tsakanin 30 da 600.

Margaret Thatcher na son Esprit na Chapman

A watan Agusta 5, 1981, Firayim Minista Margaret Thatcher ta yi rangadi tare da Chapman's Esprit lokacin da ta ziyarci Norfolk. Chapman ya nuna mata wasu samfuran Lotus da yawa kuma a takaice ya kawo ta tare da wasu daga cikinsu. Photoaya hoto ya nuna Thatcher yana tuki wata Esprit. Tana kama da shakku, amma a fili tana son motar. Sharhinta shi ne: "Babban direba." Har ma suna da'awar cewa ta yi ƙoƙari ta rabu da shi.

ƙarshe

Siyan Esprit wanda Colin Chapman ke jagoranta tabbas yana da ban sha'awa ga mai sha'awar Lotus kamar yadda yake ga mai son Porsche ya sayi motar 911 ta Ferry Porsche. Kasancewar Margaret Thatcher tana tuƙi wani sakamako mai ban sha'awa ne ga masu ababen hawa. Amma tare da ko ba tare da Thatcher, farkon Lotus Esprit mota ce ta musamman.