Identification
On file- Badge
- No. 5 of 20
- Build serial
- 60260
- Window number
- —
- Last known location
- Colorado
- Indicated mileage
- 25,126 (2015)
Record confirmed 2023 All twenty chassis
Provenance
On file- Delivering dealer
- Classic Automobiles
- Sold new
- May 13, 1991
- First owner(s)from 1991 inferredRegistry: delivered new through Classic Automobiles, 13 May 1991. Ownership before 1999 not on file.
- Current owner — Coloradosince 1999 documentedRegistry: owned 1999 to the present; photographed by William Taylor for The Lotus Book.
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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May 1991
Classic Automobiles
Wholesaled the car new; it reached the Seattle area through Barrier Lotus of Bellevue (salesman Bud Hoelscher).
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1991–1999?
D. Havens · Bellevue, WA
Bought reportedly for $91,000. A later owner, uneasy with the race-bred car, sold it back to Havens — himself a professional driver in NASCAR, the Rolex Grand-Am, and the American Le Mans Series.
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1999–present
L.M. · Golden, CO
Account
On fileChassis 60260 — badge #5 — worked its way through the Pacific Northwest’s Lotus network before settling in Colorado, where it has stayed for a quarter of a century and earned a place in the marque’s photographic record.
Wholesaled by Classic Automobiles in May 1991, the car reached the Seattle area through Barrier Lotus of Bellevue, Washington, where salesman Bud Hoelscher — who moved four or five X180Rs — handled the sale. D. Havens of Bellevue bought the car, reportedly for $91,000, and but for one brief interlude kept it: a subsequent owner, uneasy at the wheel of the race-bred Esprit, sold it back to Havens, himself a professional driver who competed in NASCAR, the Rolex Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series.
Since 1999 the car has resided in Golden, Colorado. There it was photographed by William Taylor for “The Lotus Book .”
The window sticker
Every X180R left the factory with a Monroney label — the window sticker US law requires on a new car — and it is the most useful single document a road car can carry. It fixes the model year, the options, and the price as the dealer advertised them, on paper, at the moment of sale. This one survives with the car.
The sticker fixes the price exactly. The manufacturer’s suggested port-of-entry retail price was $126,500; preparation added $350 and destination $895, for a total suggested retail price of $127,745. The same figures appear on the surviving sticker for No. 10 — a different chassis, delivered through a different dealer and a different port — so this was the X180R’s set price, not one car’s negotiation.
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.