1977 Lotus Esprit – Jay Leno’s Garage


This one-owner Lotus Esprit is unlike any other you’ve seen on the road! Jason and Detlef Claudius have been maintaining and modifying this 300 horsepower wedge since it was bought new in ’77.


27 Comments

  1. the steering wheel is very wrong late 90s style should be old skool at least 80s not 90s

  2. Jay is like a pornstar. They all bring him their precious one and he bangs them pretty firmly like a pro!

  3. Gotta love a guy who made his fortune in the tv business shitting on the tv obsessed youth who 'don't make anything anymore'. Worse than that it was his smug 'baby-boomer' generation that popularised trash media entertainment like no other, when they weren't destroying White America with their 'counter culture' that is.

  4. Huge Lotus fan here. Not sure where I first read or heard this quote, "You can't be too rich or too short to own a Lotus." I tried to fit in a Series one Esprit many years ago. Being 6'2" and especially long of leg, I had to give up.

  5. Great episode, I like the very tasty and well thought off modifications on an icon that broke too often. The wheels look good too but I would always stay with the lightest possible, avoiding wider tires than original

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