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Neill, Bill "Installations - Lotus Esprit Turbo" Car Audio & Electronics July 1989: 40-46.
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I got to drive one of these about 15 years ago. I am 6'1" and probably went about 290lbs at the time. I almost physically could not drive the car. It was damn near impossible for me to operate the clutch. I would say no shoe bigger than about a size-8 would fit under the dash reasonably comfortably. Let alone the fact that I could not hold my head straight up. And it was very poorly engineered. And, quite surprisingly, it was a slug. My 4x4 1972 Dodge truck was quicker. Fact, we raced. I smoked him in a hillbily 1/4-mile, badly.
I used to sell these at a dealer, mid 90's. Same car pretty much.. The Esprit S4. They were fun but oh Lawd try to get in and out of it. Even my mid-90's skinny butt could barely fit in it. But hard to find a sexier look from that era.
I tried to get in one about 10 years ago when I was considerably thinner. I would have had to bend myself in half to get my 6'5 frame in there. It was worse then getting in an S2000
I just haven't had my "Pretty Woman" moment yet...
There's no seeing one of these for me without this classic Bond flick coming to mind..
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Ya know.. While on the subject.. Us old farts will recognize this chick in the chopper from a bunch of 70's movies, Sinbad etc.. Not everything in the 70's was grungy hippie dippy.
Let's just have a hat in hand salute to Caroline Munro. Lord have mercy!
https://youtu.be/-GtuwgkM3w4
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