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Elan with "patina"

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When I bought my Elan with a patina, the plan was to just get it running and drive it. Then we found out that it took 17 bolts to remove the body. Three years later..... the ground up restoration was complete /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
You've an "extra" bolt someplace! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
 
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You've an "extra" bolt someplace! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif

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Ha, ha, I am sure it fell out by now. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

it was eight years ago, I knew it was a number close to that
 
Seems to me my 140 Jag had 22 bolts just holding the oil pan to the block. And it still leaked.

Those Elan body fasteners were patented, weren't they? The folded up sheet metal frame idea wasn't new but the fastener anchoring method in the fiberglass was.
 
ACBC dubbed 'em "bobbins". Kind of an ovoid/hourglass shape. Glassed into the body they hold well.
 
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