Reason Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 No affiliation, surfing and found on Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MODERN-VERSION-LOTUS-7-/290595052762?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item43a8d09cda#ht_1596wt_1167 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitcat Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Wow! Whole lotta car. Will be interesting to see how much $ it goes for. Seems like a $28-$33 car??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reason Posted August 4, 2011 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 Wow! Whole lotta car. Will be interesting to see how much $ it goes for. Seems like a $28-$33 car??? It is a whole lotta car. I like it and the only thing I would change would probably be the engine to a Duratec motor. $28-$33K is too my for me but it will be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1Steve Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 It is a whole lotta car. I like it and the only thing I would change would probably be the engine to a Duratec motor. $28-$33K is too my for me but it will be interesting. That is a nice seven, but why would you swap out the engine ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersportsp Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Wow! Whole lotta car. Will be interesting to see how much $ it goes for. Seems like a $28-$33 car??? It was listed on Ebay last week and didn't sell. Didn't see what the top bid was, but if it was going to hit anywhere near this number it would already have the $15k initial bid. He would probably do better with it if he took the interior back to stock and sold the roll-cage and other major racy bits separately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitcat Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Duratecs are lighter, more powerful, have more abilty to make more power and cheaper. But, once the Zetec is there, I agree, it wld make little sense to try a swap.(Intake/exhausts are on wrong side of hood, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mca Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 The title says 2003 model year which would make it very difficult to register in California or anywhere else that cares about emissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMTX Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 I would be much more interested w/o all the modifications and a stock interior. But $28-33k. No way it is worth that much. I haven't even seen any original true Lotus Sevens selling for that in this recession. Plus, there are nice Bruton Stalkers available currently for far less. Remember, a car is hole in the pavement in which you can pour money. This is evidenced by the gentleman writing he would want to change it to a Duratec. Added modifications rarely add much value to a car. Sometimes, even properly done modifications actually lower the value of a car. While not as bad on a car such as a Seven, recent production cars modified with aftermarket performance parts are rarely worth more than the untouched clean original. My son has a aftermarket upgraded Audi A4 with 350 RWHP. Everything works nicely as it should. The installation was very clean. Fortunately, he didn't spend all the money that the original owner spent modifying the car. But he has been trying to sell it for more than clean stock Audi A4's of the same year for over a year. I have tried to warn him that he will never get it. I have a dead stock Mazdaspeed Miata, never driven in rain, always stored in a temperature controlled garage. As of this writing, it has 4400 miles on it. You can't tell any part of it from a car sitting on a showroom floor. It is still worth more than I paid for it. The few MSM's sold in clean stock condition have sold for much more than the ones modified with even the (reportedly) very good turbo aftermarket modifications that clean up Mazda's intake plumbing. The difference is as much as $8000 for cars with similar miles. BTW, where a car is stored when it is not driven is very important. Heat and cold cause deterioration of plastics and rubber, and corrosion. Paint holds up fine. The difference between the cars stored in my AC garage, and my regular garage is like night and day. If I ever re-restore any of my antiques to keep, I will insulate and AC the garage. Oh, and why do I have to restore them again? Nine years in a regular garage. To get back to the Westfield, once you start modifying a desirable car for your particular purpose, your customer base shrinks. I agree with the gentleman who wrote that the seller would likely be better off selling the goodies separately. I suspect this car will end up being a very good deal for someone who wants to go SCCA racing. But I'll bet they change the car again, pouring more money in the hole. :leaving: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusaNostra Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I would be much more interested w/o all the modifications and a stock interior. But $28-33k. No way it is worth that much. I haven't even seen any original true Lotus Sevens selling for that in this recession. Plus, there are nice Bruton Stalkers available currently for far less. Remember, a car is hole in the pavement in which you can pour money. I have a Westfield and offered $28,000 by a local man in the area. Probably will not get this much if my engine is Zetec. The man was very facinated with my Honda S2000 engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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