Tips and tricks for restoring the fabulous Lotus Elan M100. It's one of the best cars that Lotus, one of the world's best car manufacturers, every made. But they are 20 years old now and we all need some good lovin'. All restoration jobs take a long time. But they take even longer when you haven't done them before (or watched someone else doing them first). So I've doubled up on the pain for you; done the jobs and filmed myself doing them to save you some hours or some garage bills.