So what does your Elan/Plus2 look like today?

[bast0n]

Gary

Your bumpers look almost black........................................

[garyeanderson]

Gary

Your bumpers look almost black........................................

They are body color which is 1988 Jaguar Brooklands Green. All of my Elans are painted the same way, the front bumper is blended into the body with a slight radius and painted the same color as the body. If we all liked the same color and mods life would be boring wouldn't it? Almost as boring as me...

Gary

This photo is the backside of the North Scituate beach photo just after the houses start.

[RedS4]

It's up to $4.10 a gallon so I'll be cutting back soon, Vote with your wallet and all that crap.

Try $1.50 a itre = $6.82 AUS = $7.30 US a gallon!!! - and that's for what you woud cal "regular"....

[garyeanderson]

It's up to $4.10 a gallon so I'll be cutting back soon, Vote with your wallet and all that crap.

Try $1.50 a itre = $6.82 AUS = $7.30 US a gallon!!! - and that's for what you woud cal "regular"....

Don't worry, it will go up and we will be there soon. When it does folks in the U.S. will stop spending that money on other things like all that crap made in China and the rest of the world. Then you will see a real world wide recession. Fight the war and vote with your wallet and reduce your driving! Maybe that leaky 1700cc 150 hp Twin Cam will come out and the NOS 1500 pre-crossflow will go in. I guess that would be called taking some cam(s) out of it.

[bast0n]

Gary

I must admit your car looks very smart indeed. If mine had not been white when I bought it yours is the colour I would choose. I would not blend in the bumper for fear of some idiot in a car park bashing it. I assume that blended in it is not as easy to get off for repair?

[garyeanderson]

Gary

I must admit your car looks very smart indeed. If mine had not been white when I bought it yours is the colour I would choose. I would not blend in the bumper for fear of some idiot in a car park bashing it. I assume that blended in it is not as easy to get off for repair?

The bumper is blended to the nose (aka the bondo is spread on the bumper to blend it to the body) so if /when its hit you need to repair the bumper. I screw up and forgot with 36/5520 and blended the body to the bumper and when I got it home I was jacking it up to get some work done and it dropped off the jack and rolled into the end 12 x 16 shed I was finishing the assembly in. So I had to fix it again and get my friend to repaint the nose and bumper. shit happens and you fix it...

I did a write up on blending the bumper on Tingles ex race car body in this post.
elan-f14/tingles-production-race-elan-body-t16586.html

Please have a read and learn something, maybe we can have some fun if you can understand the passion. This isn't a half ass hobby, its a life long addiction that most of you don't seem to understand. Maybe you use your Elans for something different but mine puts a grin on my face each and every time I see it or get in and drive it.

Gary

[John Larkin]

It's up to $4.10 a gallon so I'll be cutting back soon, Vote with your wallet and all that crap.

Try $1.50 a itre = $6.82 AUS = $7.30 US a gallon!!! - and that's for what you woud cal "regular"....

Here in Ireland we're paying ?1.60 per litre for petrol with 5% ethanol added --- the only choice they give us. That's U.S. $9.72 per imperial gallon, or $8.10 per U.S. gallon.

John Larkin.

[bast0n]

Gary

Maybe you use your Elans for something different but mine puts a grin on my face each and every time I see it or get in and drive it.

Absobleedin spot on. In my family we measure cars by "grins per mile" and the Elan wins hands down every time. I have a great chum who has 13 cars, some of them quite nice, Daimler Dart, DB7, AC Greyhound etc and none of them come close in GPM. We have what we like to term a handling course around the roads in this part of Somerset so that we can compare like with like.

Even the grand children adore it!

[DeanG]

Just after its first drive in 13 years.

Next up CV joints and new rubber around the windshield.

[garyeanderson]

Hi Dean

The doors look great please don't do any new door seals or you may need to paint and do other unmentionables. David will be over joyed with you Bumpers, seems to be a trend developing on both sides of the pond. Glad you got to smile and I hope that grin is stuck on you face for the rest of the year...

Gary

4:30 pm
Well I couldn't resist a nice sunny day so I went out at 3:00 pm and drove over to to a friends in Cohasset, he wasn't home but his son and I talked for a while and then I got some more pictures.

[Spyder fan]

Tim

Your handbrake position. Does it not interfere with the relaxed left/right arm rest that makes the Elan so comfortable?

Woh, I missed something from sleeping in one day. What happened?

And where did that handbrake handle spring up from Tim? I don't remember Sprints losing the underdash umbrella handle???

Roger

Pay attention chaps! The centre console handbraked car belongs to me, it's definitely not an original feature amongst many others. See my long running thread topic here http://www.lotuselan.net/forums/elan-mods-f31/duratec-project-the-finishing-touch-t22006.html rather than block up Gary's topic, please add any questions or comments to my thread in the MOD's section.

Regards

[bast0n]

Alan
Apologies for not reading through the 16 pages of your other thread.

I asked

Your handbrake position. Does it not interfere with the relaxed left/right arm rest that makes the Elan so comfortable?

A simple answer would be nice - or ignore me. Don't care really as I know the answer.

[Spyder fan]

Alan
Apologies for not reading through the 16 pages of your other thread.

I asked

Your handbrake position. Does it not interfere with the relaxed left/right arm rest that makes the Elan so comfortable?

A simple answer would be nice - or ignore me. Don't care really as I know the answer.

David,
I have sent you pm in answer, this is Garys topic and its regarding how your Elan or +2 looks. I don't want to drift off topic too much here which is why I pointed you towards my topic specifically about modified Elans.

Regards

[rgh0]

The Elan loaded on the trailer and ready for Phillip Island historic races next weekend. It been raining for the last week so i hope it fines up for next weekend. Phillip Island is a fast track and in the wet it can get a little scary.

cheers
Rohan

Elan on the trailer for racing next weekend

[DeanG]

A photo from last weekend. It lives.