Identification
On file- Badge
- No. 4 of 20
- VIN
- SCCFC20B1MHF60259
- Build serial
- 60259
- Window number
- sticker missing
- Last known location
- New Hampshire
- Indicated mileage
- ~499 (2020)
Record confirmed 2023 All twenty chassis
Provenance
On file- Delivering dealer
- Midwestern Auto Group (Columbus, OH)
- First owner — from newnew — 2020 documentedRegistry: one owner from new until 2020 (offered for sale that year by Curated).
- Current owner — New Hampshiresince 2020 documentedRegistry: acquired 2020; owned to the present.
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.
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1991–2020
Single owner · Ohio
Delivered through Midwestern Auto Group of Columbus, Ohio, and kept by one owner for close to thirty years — roughly 499 miles from new.
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2020
Curated · Miami, FL
Offered for sale by John Temerian Jr. as the Lotus in the ’80s Time Capsule Collection.
Account
On fileChassis 60259 — badge #4 — is the lowest-mileage X180R known to the registry, having covered roughly 499 miles from new. Delivered through Midwestern Auto Group in Columbus, Ohio, it remained with a single owner for close to thirty years before surfacing in 2020 as the Lotus in Curated’s “’80s Time Capsule Collection,” offered for sale by John Temerian Jr.
November 2020
Offered for sale by Curated as part of the Time Capsule Collection with the following description:
FIVE BEST-OF-THE 80s TIME CAPSULE CARS FROM A SINGLE OWNER, AVAILABLE AT CURATED
- CURATED announces the “The Time Capsule Collection” – a five-car, single-owner, preservation collection.
- “The Time Capsule Collection” headlined by a spectacular Mercedes-Benz SEC 6.0 AMG, joined by a one-off 3,200 mile Lamborghini Jalpa, a “new” 1,200 mile Lamborghini LM002 American, 2,668 mile Lamborghini Countach and a 499 mile Lotus Esprit X180R.
- All the cars feature a range of unique factory specifications and incredible concours quality preservation.
Miami, FL (02 November 2020) – CURATED is excited to offer an unparalleled five-car, single-owner collection of incredible European Icons. Listed for sale individually, each vehicle forms part of ‘The Time Capsule Collection’ and has been lovingly preserved to an exceptional standard by a passionate collector from new. All the cars have unique factory specifications and liveries. The collection is arguably the best example of low mileage 1980s and 1990s automobiles Curated has had the opportunity to represent.
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Concluding the collection is the 499 mile 1991 Lotus Esprit X180R. 1 of 20 produced for the world. The Esprit X180R were produced as road-legal homologation cars for Lotus to compete in the IMSA Supercar Championship. The Esprit X180R was the last factory-built race car with a full roll cage that was Street Legal and sold new in the United States.
“These outstanding cars represent some of the most iconic Automobiles of the 1980s and 1990s in arguably the best condition and preservation we have seen.” said John Temerian of Curated. “Not only are they in incredible condition but they are complete with original tools, records, books, documents and more! It’s truly an honor to represent cars of this caliber.”
Attachments
The car on file
12 images on file for this chassis. Each is credited as far as the record allows; where the photographer is not known, it says so.
2009
496 miles reported
Documents
Not on fileNot on file. No window sticker, invoice, title or service record is on file. A single delivery document would anchor the whole entry.
Photographs
Not on fileNot on file. No period photograph of this chassis is held — a delivery photograph, a window sticker, or a shot of the dash plaque would open the record.
Contribute a photographRecord & sources
On file- Record confirmed
- 2023
- Provenance grade
- Not assessed
Not on file. No sources are catalogued for this chassis.