Identification
On file- Badge
- No. 8 of 20
- Build serial
- 60267
- Window number
- —
- Exterior
- White
- Interior
- Black
- Last known location
- Maryland
- Indicated mileage
- 9,202 (2018)
Record confirmed 2020 All twenty chassis
Provenance
On file- Delivering dealer
- Kensington Motors (Long Beach, CA)
Nothing is on file for the ownership of this chassis. The whole track is an open gap — which is itself the fact this register exists to close.
Account
On fileChassis 60267 — badge #8 — is documented here chiefly through two period sales listings, reprinted below as they appeared. Fitted with the homologation edition’s full complement of equipment — air conditioning, dual sports seats, power windows and mirrors — it showed 9,210 miles when offered by Gentry Lane of Toronto in January 2016, and something under 22,000 miles when advertised privately on Lotus Talk two years later.
History
January 2016
Offered for sale by Gentry Lane in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
In 1990 Lotus needed a race program to promote the Esprit in the US market. To do this they upgraded an Esprit SE to race in the SCCA series. The new car, strictly race prepared, was called the Type 105.
The type 105 SCCA car encouraged Lotus to make a new road-going Supercar. Thus the X180R was born. It was based on the Type 105 having 285 hp. Twenty of these replicas were produced and sold as race-ready, road-going cars. They had air conditioning, dual sports seats and chassis galvanisation (which was missing on the racecars).
In 1991, Lotus made three racecars to enter the SCCA World Challenge. These cars benefited heavily from the 1990 race season. These cars adopted the road-going name X180R despite changing to the Type 106 designation.
1991 Lotus X180R. The exterior is White with a Black interior. 5 speed manual transmission. 9,210 miles. 4 cylinder in-line, 2,174cc engine. #8 out of 20 vehicles made. Dual Sport Seats. Options include power windows, power mirrors, radio and A/C.
The car on file
21 images on file for this chassis. Each is credited as far as the record allows; where the photographer is not known, it says so.
January 2018
For sale on Lotus Talk by Dista21 in January 2018:
1991 Lotus Esprit X180R for sale. Original owners and car is all original and running. Under 22k miles on it. Contact for more details or with any questions. Ajnova2@gmail.com or 774-276-6614.
The car on file
3 images on file for this chassis. Each is credited as far as the record allows; where the photographer is not known, it says so.
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
- 2020
- Provenance grade
- Not assessed
Not on file. No sources are catalogued for this chassis.