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elansprint71 wrote:Ginetta sandwich.

Oulton Park Gold cup 2010.

The front bit of bread!

Hello, I'm new here. I thought I would share this sequence of photos of an Elan loosing a wheel during the Croft race meeting in August.
If anyone knows the driver please tell him about the photos. He may like to know what happened !!!


Elan 1 by Bravo Papa, on Flickr


Elan 2 by Bravo Papa, on Flickr


Elan 3 by Bravo Papa, on Flickr


Elan 4 by Bravo Papa, on Flickr


Elan 5 by Bravo Papa, on Flickr


Elan 6 by Bravo Papa, on Flickr

brian p wrote: Hello, I'm new here.

Welcome aboard, Brian...

brian p wrote: I thought I would share this sequence of photos of an Elan loosing a wheel during the Croft race meeting in August.

And what a sequence!!

Is the first car in elansprint71's photo a Turner? Ken.

ken ob wrote:Is the first car in elansprint71's photo a Turner? Ken.

More like a Rochdale than a Turner I would say.

Well done on the Harrington spot- this one is an Alpine (were there any Harrington conversions on the Tiger?).
As for the other one, I think it is a Milano GT but I'm usually wrong!

Here's one from a shady pit lane at Le Mans Classic 2010.

elansprint71 wrote:...were there any Harrington conversions on the Tiger?

At least one...

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/2548 ... Coupe.html

ardee_selby wrote:

brian p wrote: Hello, I'm new here.

Welcome aboard, Brian...
And what a sequence!!

Indeed welcome and what an unusual sequence, don't think I've ever seen a car sit on a wheel it has just shed before. Looks like he needs some TT output shafts.

elansprint71 wrote:

ardee_selby wrote:

brian p wrote: Hello, I'm new here.

Welcome aboard, Brian...
And what a sequence!!

Indeed welcome and what an unusual sequence, don't think I've ever seen a car sit on a wheel it has just shed before. Looks like he needs some TT output shafts.

And some hub shafts to go with them, p'raps?

(Pedant...junior rank)

brian p wrote:If anyone knows the driver please tell him about the photos. He may like to know what happened !!!

I think that I know who the driver is ...... Howard B.

I will email him to check!

Ian.

Edited to say that it was Howard (not a member of this forum) and he is extremely
grateful Brian to see those excellent pics.

The Old Italian wrote:

brian p wrote:If anyone knows the driver please tell him about the photos. He may like to know what happened !!!

I think that I know who the driver is ...... Howard B.

I will email him to check!

Ian.

Edited to say that it was Howard (not a member of this forum) and he is extremely
grateful Brian to see those excellent pics.

Ian,

I am please to hear that Howard has seen the photos. Thanks for directing him to them. There are a couple of others with Howard out of the car on my Flickr.

Brian - awesome sequence!

Pete - cracking shots that really capture the atmosphere.

thanks gents

Elan-racing the Norwegian way........




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Well if you like that sort of thing, I have attached a link to a Youtube video of my Elan chasing a Sunbeam Harrington at Spa a couple of years back. It was the second race of 2 - in the first race the Elan had seized its engine so we blagged one from a Lotus Cortina and switched them over between races. Grid positions were based on race 1 so we were about 60th at the start!

First lap was tricky on cold tyres and Sunbeam was pdquick!

Things were going well and had got halfway through the field when it all came to a messy end.

Happy to report no injuries and the car is repaired and back racing again.

Let me know if this is your bag - I've got ones of Elan on Ginetta G4 and TVR Griffith too.

Paul


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9XWWZyxHuI