Lotus Elan and Lotus Elan Plus 2 Forums

Thanks MBell, we have but the results are inconclusive, and do not pinpoint the specific car.

Rob/everyone

I've just bought an Elan +2 that has a compass on the dash. I haven't seen any like this before. Do you happen to know if it's similar to the Avengers one you're talking about?

Has anyone else got one of these? Seems like a odd but fairly nice accessory - if a little quaint.

Cheers!
Josh

Welcome to the forum.

A compass was a fairly common auto accessory in the 60's and 70's.

Please tell us more about your car, photos are always appreciated.

Mazzini wrote:Welcome to the forum.

A compass was a fairly common auto accessory in the 60's and 70's.

Please tell us more about your car, photos are always appreciated.

Hi Mazzini,

it's actually in pieces lol! I only bought it recently thinking it was just the rolling body and chassis, but it came as a complete car!

I wanted to do a Zetec conversion, but I reckon now I'll rebuild it as is. Do you think this compass may be original then? I assumed it was aftermarket.

If you want to see some pics of the project they're here on my shared google account - https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipM ... RuTUM1WUF3

Josh

Quite a jigsaw puzzle you have there.

I expect the compass is aftermarket.

I bought one back in the 70's with a sucker to stick on the windscreen. I used it to dive NE to E in Paris to avoid the centre while en-route to Switzerland.

I think it's aftermarket too as someone has done a somewhat unique crashpad recover. The PO certainly liked red - crashpad, parcel shelf, manifold, Airbox and cover, oil filter to name but a few.

One hell of a project you have there. Are you planning a total restoration? What sort of timescale do you have in mind?

Original thread now well and truly hijacked -Rossua -start a new thread on your car and it will act as a record for you progress and keep all your queries in one place.

For some reason the link to elan registry dot org is going to xxx hacker or something not nice.