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elvacar

elvacar

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The Elva is getting completed. I will post pictures of the process when I figure out how to diminish them to fit the Gallery Page.

I re did the parts list I had from the Elva Club in the 80's
with new sources for all the required parts

It will be the most expensive elva ever

Scott
 
Ooohhh!!!! Yes. piccies, PLEASE!!! :laugh:

You DO know there are a couple OTHER Elva ~freaks~ hangin' out in here, don'tcha? :smirk:
 
And welcome in from th' cold, too. :thumbsup:

We're a good surrogate support group... or at least you can use us as an excuse. :wink:
 
Too nice! Knew some guys who raced them back in the day. None looked this good.
 
In some ways I agree on the too nice - the bodies were painted after Gelcoat but done to an acceptable standard with waves. I have had this car for 30 years and my old race car dated before that to when I was 15 - So I too knew them in the day

You have to remember it was priced just under a Big Healey - it couldn't look too off. This one has a very high dollar single pack paint job - but nothing more. The ripples were no more no less than a Lotus Elite or early Elan standard fiberglass fair for the standard car. This car is bone stock

My friend Ray Hoepper has the 100 mile Courier featured in the 1958 Playboy magazine and his car vouches for the quality of the original vehicle as delivered.

If you had met Frank Nichols the Elva founder as I had back 20 years ago - You would know Frank didn't let junk go out the door- Of course he said my car still looked better before the restoration than most cars he delivered -

This car exactly matches the one traveling down the assembly line in the Elva brochures and in fact it is the one.

It is interesting the body was designed by the same guy who did the Hillman Imp as a moonlight job.

As you remember all race cars in the day had been stripped and the floors removed (wood is flammable) almost immediately after their arrival. This car was un_raced and unmolested with the original motor and this car even includes the tools and jack, weather gear et al-


But the body is so beautiful, and it has been such a good friend it really deserved a class job
 
VERY NICE!! :thumbsup:

-Bear- :cheers:
 
Ok, you're pulling one over on us! Those are pictures of the car when it was NEW...and the garage background is Photoshopped in!! :laugh:

VERY nice work!! You must be quite the proud "Poppa"! :smile:
 
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