Emma Peel's Lotus

Rhonda · Post by **Rhonda** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 7:30 pm

mousemeat wrote:
Rhonda wrote:Roger Moore's Persuaders car sold for over £500'000. I remember a figure of around £80k 'The Cars Of The Stars' museum roughly 10 years ago as an estimate for Emma's Lotus Elan.
way above my means..lol....wow

Me too, but I'm thinking "do I really need a house"

It simply amazes me that Emma's beautiful car is for sale; I dream about it!

Ian Wegg · Post by **Ian Wegg** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 2:17 pm

Ian Wegg wrote:...and sadly Dezer didn't seem to have any interest in it. It was up for sale on their website back in July but I notice it's gone now so it could be anywhere.

Three years later and I've picked up the trail again!

By chance I noticed the car transport company "Circuit2Circuit" have this posted on their website:

1966 Lotus

This car, a 1966 Lotus Elan was collected from Heathrow by Circuit2Circuit and delivered to Northants safely and descreetly in one of our covered car trailers.
This particular car was used in 'The Avengers' by Diana Rigg's character Emma Peel and was owned by Rigg for a period.

No date on the news item but the photograph appears to have been taken in Feb 2013.

Around the same time the user "scottyn" posted on a Lotus Forum that he is rebuilding the car:
http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/f165/sj ... s3-123588/

Unfortunately he/she hasn't posted again since. The car still is not registered with the DVLA but at least it appears it was back in the UK in early 2013.

~iw

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:52 pm

Ian

I'm happy to see that this iconic car associated to The Avengers has been returned to the UK. Though as you indicate it would be nice to know the current state of play.

It does not look to be in bad condition from the photograph, although I realize that only so much detail can be made out. Further to this, I was never aware that Diana liked the Elan so much that she actually owned it at one point.

Ian Wegg · Post by **Ian Wegg** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 5:34 pm

An article in the Hertfordshire Mercury. The owner of the second Elan is one Deryck Norville, who is now in the hunt for the first one...

http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/H ... story.html

~iw

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 5:59 pm

Great news that Deryck Norville has tracked down the Lotus Elan from the colour Rigg episodes and intends restoring it to its original condition. I wish him all the best with his search for the earlier white Elan from the black and white episodes. Still the Big cat Jaguar from The New Avengers surfaced eventually, so there's always some hope.

Post by **dissolute** » Mon Jan 09, 2023 12:34 am

Emma's gorgeous Elan S3 Drophead CoupÃ© is up for sale!

https://silodrome.com/emma-peel-lotus-e ... -avengers/

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa0 ... e-avengers

GUIDE PRICE: Â£80,000 - Â£120,000
+ buyers premium of 12.5% plus VAT (15% incl VAT) on the first Â£300,000 of the hammer and 10% plus VAT (12% incl VAT) thereafter

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Mon Jan 09, 2023 12:38 am

dissolute wrote:Emma's gorgeous Elan S3 Drophead CoupÃ© is up for sale!

https://silodrome.com/emma-peel-lotus-e ... -avengers/

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa0 ... e-avengers

GUIDE PRICE: Â£80,000 - Â£120,000
+ buyers premium of 12.5% plus VAT (15% incl VAT) on the first Â£300,000 of the hammer and 10% plus VAT (12% incl VAT) thereafter

interesting price..and info...so glad this was posted...

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:35 am

dissolute wrote:Emma's gorgeous Elan S3 Drophead CoupÃ© is up for sale!

https://silodrome.com/emma-peel-lotus-e ... -avengers/

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa0 ... e-avengers

GUIDE PRICE: Â£80,000 - Â£120,000
+ buyers premium of 12.5% plus VAT (15% incl VAT) on the first Â£300,000 of the hammer and 10% plus VAT (12% incl VAT) thereafter

"one of the first British shows picked up and shown in the USA by American networks." One of the first, or the first? Was Richard Greene's Adventures of Robin Hood networked?

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Mon Jan 09, 2023 4:08 am

Frankymole wrote:
dissolute wrote:Emma's gorgeous Elan S3 Drophead CoupÃ© is up for sale!

https://silodrome.com/emma-peel-lotus-e ... -avengers/

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa0 ... e-avengers

GUIDE PRICE: Â£80,000 - Â£120,000
+ buyers premium of 12.5% plus VAT (15% incl VAT) on the first Â£300,000 of the hammer and 10% plus VAT (12% incl VAT) thereafter
"one of the first British shows picked up and shown in the USA by American networks." One of the first, or the first? Was Richard Greene's Adventures of Robin Hood networked?

yeah, it was was....CBS PICKED up the series in late september 1955.....series was shot in 35mm...with slots for commercials (U.S.) ran for what, 145 episodes ?

I remember seeing it on TV....and the only thing I didn't like about it, was the theme song...ugh......

I do believe it was the first UK series picked up for U.S. broadcast...

Andrew Pixley · Post by **Andrew Pixley** » Mon Jan 09, 2023 6:57 am

mousemeat wrote:I do believe it was the first UK series picked up for U.S. broadcast...

I've never got around to checking in detail, but I think that "The Vise" was picked up by ABC before CBS got "... Robin Hood". I've got a long term background project about the history of ITC (and ITP before it) underway, and it's one of the things that I want to get to the bottom of. But there British pilots being shot for series to be made in the US at the very start of the 1950s.

All the best

Andrew