Lotus Elise

This is a car that I photographed in one of the car parks at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in May 2019.

It’s a Lotus Elise, a car that was produced from 1996 to 2021with a choice of various engines of around 1.8 litres. The DVLA says it no longer has a record of this registration number, but the ‘V’ in the number indicates that it was registered between September 1999 and February 2000 which means that it’s Series 1 car.

2000 Lotus 190 Sport Elise

This is a photograph I took in the paddock at Oulton Park at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting in May 2002.

It's the 2000 Lotus 190 Sport Elise of Alistair Mackinnon which competed in the Lotus Road Sport Series race. The car has a 4-cylinder inline 1,796cc Rover engine. The number of the car behind it isn't visible, but it seems to be either the 1998 Lotus Exige of Gavan Kershaw or the similar car of Neil Glover. In the background is the silver 1998 Lotus Elise of John Vickery.