Lotus X180R No. 17

Identification

On file
GROUP LOTUS PLCHETHEL ENGLANDTYPE: X180R1991 PRODUCTIONVIN: 6027917 OF 20
Chassis record
Badge
No. 17 of 20
VIN
SCCFC20B7MHF60279
Build serial
60279
Window number
Last known location
Minnesota
Indicated mileage
18,500 (2005)

Record confirmed 2020 All twenty chassis

Provenance

On file
Delivering dealer
Scottsdale Lotus (Scottsdale, AZ)
Sold new
June 22, 1991
First owner
S. Hanson
Market
United States
Bought new through Scottsdale Lotus of Scottsdale, Arizona, on 22 June 1991 by S. Hanson of Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Provenance
  1. Steve Hansen — Paradise Valley, AZfrom 1991 documentedRegistry: original owner, bought new through Scottsdale Lotus, 22 June 1991. Whether this is the LotuSport sponsor Steve Hansen of Paradise Valley is not established. Sale date to the next owner is not recorded.
  2. D. Crowto 2002 inferredRegistry ownership research: held until 2002; acquisition date not recorded.
  3. S. Lefferts — Marylandto 2007 inferredRegistry ownership research: Maryland owner until 2007; acquisition date not recorded.
  4. D.C. — Minnesotalast known inferredRegistry: last known owner, Minnesota; record last confirmed 2020. Both boundary dates are reconstructed.

Ink is a documented tenure; grey is an owner on record whose dates are reconstructed; an open gap in the bar is a period for which the record is lost. Corrections and dated paperwork are welcomed.

  1. 1991–?

    S. Hanson · Paradise Valley, AZ

    Original owner; bought through Scottsdale Lotus.

    The first owner S. Hanson is the same man as LotuSport’s Arizona-based sponsor and gentleman driver Steve Hansen, also of Paradise Valley — the two spellings preserved as each source has them.
  2. ?–2002

    D. Crow

  3. ?–2007

    S. Lefferts · Maryland

  4. ?–?

    D.C. · Minnesota

Account

On file

Documents

Not on file

Not on file. No window sticker, invoice, title or service record is on file. A single delivery document would anchor the whole entry.

Photographs

On file
Photographs supplied to the registry; the photographer is not recorded.

Record & sources

On file
Record confirmed
2020
Provenance grade
Four-owner chain with three broken date joins; first-owner identity contested
What would complete the fileThe dates on which the car left each owner, the finish as built, and the identity behind the first owner’s name all remain open.
Sources
  1. X180R registry ownership file, chassis 60279
  2. InterMarque Monthly, September 2010 (reproduced on this page as a document)