1965 LOTUS ELAN ROADSTER Authentic Vintage Ad ~ MSRP ,226 ~ FREE SHIPPING!

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1965 LOTUS ELAN ROADSTER Authentic Vintage Ad ~ MSRP ,226 ~ FREE SHIPPING!
1965 Lotus Elan Roadster original vintage advertisement.
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□ The Lotus factory is not a sponsored segment of a large manufacturing organization. It is a very small, very progressive, and very proud factory whose name appears in almost every motoring publication or newspaper sports page with startling regularity — IN FRONT, where it was "designed” to be. Frankly, we DO build more enthusiast competition vehicles than anyone else — we also SELL more of those vehicles than anyone else IN A FREE MARKET because they do what they are "designed” to do.
□ We believe the Lotus Elan has the same straightforward and logical abilities "designed” into it. Our enthusiast passenger vehicle, the Elan, has the finest braking, handling, and driver control systems of any vehicle in the world — not to mention an ultra-efficient performance curve. The factory builds the Lotus Elan one car at a time at a level of four a day . . . at the very lowest price we can, the very best we can.
□ The Lotus Elan, fully equipped without any options needed or offered, costs 4500 dollars. We are unable to offer the car for 3000 dollars . . . unless we made the car heavier and bigger with a conventional tin body, unless we mentioned additional seating for rear seat passengers without legs, remove the Weber carburetors, extract the twin overhead camshaft engine (used by other manufacturers only to create an advertising "sporting” image), put a 1920 rear axle on the vehicle . . . in short, build a car to a price that looks like what it isn’t. Then buy an advertising and competition department to build an image from cars that bear no resemblance to what is actually available to the public. In short, take a 3000 dollar pig and make it go for another 3000 dollars. Above all, DO confuse size and finish with design and quality ... at Lotus, we feel that one thinking design line is still worth twenty people polishing a part from an older, stupid design with dust on it. If we stripped the Lotus Elan "of its brains” it would probably sell ten times as many cars in one tenth the time ... it just wouldn’t be a Lotus. The Lotus Elan costs .00 a pound — you may buy hamburger for less.
□ The Lotus dealer on the west coast delivers between one and three Elans a month — that’s all he gets. He is a car enthusiast, he understands and enjoys the Lotus Elan, and he knows how to service it. . . if he has a fault, it is that he is perhaps a bit hardheaded and old fashioned that he respects his vehicles and his customers after service . . . and himself for what he sells.
□ There will be 280 Lotus Elans available on the west coast of the U.S. in 1965 — they cost 26 P.O.E. Los Angeles. It would be our pleasure to demonstrate the Lotus Elan for you ... it will be swift and silent, will out-stop and out-corner any passenger car made, and will cover 0-60 in 7.5 and 0-100 in 20.5 for a LONG, LONG time. The Elan accidentally gives 26 MPG. May we show you the Elan?
LOTUS ELAN ROADSTER 1558 cc top speed 117 mph □ acceleration 0 to 60, 7.5 sec.; 0 to 100, 20.5 sec. □ four cylinder Lotus twin cam □ Twin Weber Carburetors 105 bhp @ 5500 rpm □ four-speed close ratio all synchro □ all independent Chapman suspension □ Lotus/ Girling disc brakes. Approximate delivery 30 to 60 days □ 26 P.O.E. Los Angeles.
SHOW ROOMS AND SERVICE FACILITIES
MANHATTAN BEACH, Bob Challman Ecurie Shirlee. 2301 Sepulveda Blvd.
HAYWARD, Stan Peterson, Autocourse Inc. -, 21135 Mission Blvd.
LA CANADA, La Canada Sport Cars 1300 W. Foothill
MONTEREY, Leslie Motors 999 Del Monte
OCEANSIDE, Willie West Mtrs., Inc.
1617 So. Hill
SAN BRUNO, Bob Cole Motor Imports 444 El Camino Real
SAN DIEGO, Dale Shoupe Quality Foreign, 3464 Kurtz
SANTA ANA, Fritz Warren
702 East First Street
TUCSON, Jack Rowe, Precision Motors
3512 Speedway
PORTLAND, Pierre’s Motors 11614 South East Stark
TACOMA, Geno’s Imported Cars 5911 Steilacoom Blvd., S.W.
ECURIE SHIRLEE DISTRIBUTION CORP.
2409 Sepulveda Blvd., Manhattan Beach. Calif. Exclusive Distributors for Lotus Cars throughout the Western U.S.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Black & White - Mono-Color
Photo
Size -
Full Page - 8
inches x 11 inches -
20 cm x 28 cm
ALL SIZES ARE APPROXIMATE DUE TO CROPPING
Country - USA
Grading - Excellent
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