I'm going to look at the Lotus tommorow, so pictures to come, hell, I don't even know the year, or color it is, just that it's a 90's body style (like the one in the link above) and the story behind it. The VERY short of the story is, when it was new, it was stolen then recovered with a blown engine. The shop it was sent to didn't do the required work to fix it, so it sat for many years. The owner past away, wife didn't know what to do with it, so sold it to the shop. Shop didn't want it, so it sold to another shop where it's at now. From what I'm told the amount of time that a shop would invest in the car, would be way to much considering the price it would sell at. So it's not worth a shops time to bring it back to a running state.
To make matters even worse, my buddy said he would give me another GN motor to put in the Lotus
More to come...
!M!