1976 Lotus Esprit S1 [Type 79]

1976 Lotus Esprit S1 [Type 79] in The Cannonball Run, Movie, 1981

Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: — Made for: USA

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Author	Message
DtRockstar1 ◊ 2009-12-26 03:18	Is that a Lotus Excel to the left of the Porsche 911?
marioman3138 ◊ 2019-11-21 11:41	Owned at the time by John Harrison, who ran it in the real Cannoball Run with his brother. DNF (accident). Sold after this, now in Netherlands being restored (as per VinWiki on YouTube)
blk95ta ◊ 2019-11-25 00:52	This is actually a 1977. There is a video about it on youtube. It was used in the real cannonball run. https://youtu.be/1y3u3Si2NxM
rtsbusman1997 ◊ 2020-10-16 16:35	Made for USA
Don1 ◊ 2023-08-08 14:45	Dtrockstar1 wrote Is that a Lotus Excel to the left of the Porsche 911? Haha came here especially to find out what that car was. Saw it on Rakuten(free) last night, memories came flooding back from the early vhs rental days for us car mad kids.