Back in February of 2020, our longtime Lotus customer reached out about potentially building an Elise from the ground up. The idea was to build a car to his exact specs, a reimagined Lotus Elise. The plan was to buy a brand new tub chassis from Lotus and hand-pick, or fabricate, custom parts for one goal: his perfect “streetable” track day car. Most of the drivetrain and miscellaneous bits would be taken from his current 2011 Elise.