Trying to restore a esprit s3 . Thought it would give me something to do during the lockdown.. driving me daft such a delicate car .. a,real challenge but it will be worth it . When I'm finished il never sell her too much hard work gone into it a real labour off love .
What a blast. Did a similar trip after purchasing a 1976 Fiat X1/9. Similar outcome. After one starting issue it never missed a beat. These are lifes' memories.
+ulteriorz A gorgeous, deep blue '76 X1/9 was my first car, and a daily driver for 5 years, making regular 700-mile trips to and from college (Florida to Virginia). Apart from the wheel bearings regularly failing, and some minor electronics gremlins, it too never missed a beat. I only let it go when I moved overseas, and am often tempted to find another...
Cool video. We do the same over at The Wedge Shop. We drive our late 70's Triumph TR8's. We regularly drive our cars 600 miles, run 12 second 1/4 miles, take first in the shows and drive 600 miles home!
my dads got one of them in the garage hasn't driven it for years, I remember how cool it was when he took me out in it as a kid the old cliché it cornered like it was on rails great fun
Hagerty Company, I,m accept I'm nothing special, but this video is one of the best examples I have ever seen on youtube / television. It is passive, charming, sensible, shows good people, the driver respects the car, and at 11.30 mins the music changes as the Lotus arrives. A comment to the driver, "An idiot would have broken the car in less than 100 miles" - they were / are beautiful cars, but fragile. I believe it's a 2.2 litre engine taken from a Vauxhall / Bedford van.? (I'm sure some were used) -- a quiet, reliable, powerful engine with a "quirky" water pump that required assembling into the engine ? But ? What a truly great, video. Thank you very much.
So Gallagher is working for Hagerty now? I think the S2 is, at least from an aesthetic perspective, my favorite Esprit. A beautiful, horrifically fragile car.
Sorry at 6.20 you are being a bit daft, the 2 tanks have a balance pipe, you just fill up on whichever side. Easy mistake though. Otherwise this is one of the best S2s I've ever seen, it sits perfectly.
As a fellow owner of a calypso red 78 s2, I would love to know how many are left. Out of a proposed 1060 made I have never seen another one in the flesh, a very rare beauty.
Huh. I went to high school with Rob Sass. He was one of about 4 guys I knew who liked sports cars. Well, I'm pretty sure we both liked anything with wheels, but non-muscle cars in general. That said, I ordered a brand new '82 Mustang GT my Junior year and it arrived a few months before graduation However, I sold it and bought a 240z after my 2nd year of college (thanks Missouri Highway Patrol -- speeding tickets). It was a major step back in reliability, but it was a great car with cheap insurance. Anyway, that's besides the point. Another friend from high school had a '77 Esprit but he moved to Australia. After being gone a while, I was asked to take it out of hibernation and get it up and running and baby sit it for a couple years. Still being pretty young, the car was solid, but the fuel tanks were loaded with rust. I can't tell you how many times I was stuck on the side of the road with clogged fuel filters. I finally got that ironed out, but not before I almost burned the thing to the ground when hot fuel hit the exhaust manifold when I was swapping fuel filters. :eek: Good times!!
And this same car now lives in that same friends garage in Australia. Now registered in Queensland. You better plan a trip to Oz and do a road trip to Sydney to recapture some of our misspent youth.
@@hughcdavies Wrong. Not the same chassis not the same engine. Lotus did help with construction of it . De Loren is a rear end engine car.Esprit is mid engined.
the Esprits are great cars, yes there not exsacly the most reliable car out there, but the most common problems with these cars are mainly electric problems
Sorry you think that way . I have a 1977 esprit S1. The were built broken. However if you work out the quirks. They can be reliable. But don't be driving it like you stole it. You need to maintain and respect the car. And it will work for you.
