fastback elan

[1964 S1]

What the heck is that Europa hovercraft thing???

[elansprint71]

Look again at the back end of that blue Elan guys, then check the shots from Geneva 1964.


Btw, some fastback Elan shots over in the gallery; and a conundrum re the "one-off" IWR Coupe!!!

When you've all stopped guessing I'll tell you what I think.

Pete.

[Elanintheforest]

The back end looks the same, but the front and the middle are different....extra side window. I'm confused now
Mark

[handi_andi]

The black one looks fantastic though!

[jiminy]

HISTORY QUIZ TIME. ANSWERS OPEN TO EVERYONE EXCEPT elansprint71.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT BLUE ELAN COUPE PICTURED ABOVE WITH THE WHITE CH OVAL?

Jiminy, what year Elan do you own that you're thinking about chopping into a fastback?

i dont actually own an elan, but i like the plus 2, i saw a pic of the frua elan (not the blue car) and wondered if it was possible to do something similar to that or a shapecraft as i have loved fastbacks since seeing a fastback mustang

[jiminy]

nice pics, ive only seen a pic from the back before, that looks pretty sweet

the rear glass on the frua is about twice the size as the blue car

[twincamman]

perhaps a B M W ???--ed

[handi_andi]

wonder if you could take a mould off a GT6 as a starting point.
Andy

[elansprint71]

Mark,
The back end is not the same as the Frua, which has a window that comes right down to the deck, whereas the blue "mini Gordon Keeble" has a much shorter rear window and more rounded rear.

[twincamman]

T hey both appear to have elan windshields ---ed [26r s2 33 ]

[hatman]

What the heck is that Europa hovercraft thing???

I may be mistaken but I think it's probably the 'creation' (Frankenstein?) from that TV show that was on C4 or 5 a couple of years ago where they took a Europa and made it amphibious. Wonder if they're taking orders for them.

[trw99]

Pete

You have me foxed by your blue fastback. There is a black and white photo of the car in the C&SC Mar 92 edition, but it is attributed to Ian Walker, who seems to have made some road going fastbacks as well as his better known racing fastbacks.

You clearly know that it is not an Ian Walker creation and it is clearly not the Frua or a Shapecraft. Not a Harry Radford conversion by any chance?

Tim

[Elanintheforest]

OK, I give up...I'm not going through every edition of Classic Car since Oct '73 to try and find it!

On closer inspection, the Frua side aiir vents and wrap-around rear bumper cues have been used, but the doors and wheels are std...makes me think that it wasn't a big design house.

That front end looks so GK though......Hmmmm

[jiminy]

wonder if you could take a mould off a GT6 as a starting point.
Andy

thats an interesting idea, ive always liked the mk3
anyone got an idea of the relative differance in size between the two cars

[ppnelan]

According to p.83 of 'Lotus' by Graham Arnold (Sutton's Photographic History of Transport series), the blue car that looks like a Gordon Keeble is 'the Ian Walker-designed Elan coupe, built in Switzerland'.

Matthew