We start beneath the overgrowth, stumbling on a beautiful 1967 Lotus Elan Coupe, last sold 1983, and unused since 1993. The Elan isn’t necessarily considered one of the more memorable Lotus’s through the years, but it was the first to use a steel backbone chassis with a fibreglass body, which became the style of construction that was to be repeated in subsequent Lotus models for nearly three decades.