The latest event was "The Rush to Gold Bridge 2019".
We started in Pemberton, about an hour the other side of Whistler the famous ski resort and went on gravel roads to Lillooet at the top of the pass.
It was rough!
I mean, I would have hesitated to take my all wheel drive Volvo on most of it-it was seriously rough!
My navigator was Ted Wilkinson, of Wilkinson Automobilia, who some may know. He is an experienced rally driver/navigator and would urge me on at the rough sections: "GO, GO, GO! Momentum, momentum..."
We had bloody momentum-the rear muffler looks like a garbage can after a bear finished with it!
But the Elan made it! And was first on the road throughout that run. But it was hard on the car.
We had two more days of driving on brilliant roads-sometimes unpaved but not like that first day. Swooping mountain roads for the most part and the Elan was brilliant!
We stayed in "interesting" places and had a great time.
The final run to the finish was from Kamloops to Boston Bar on mostly empty roads with a couple of unpaved sections-this is one of the nicest stretches:
We are doing almost 60mph but you cannot tell from the photo.
We got to about an hour from the finish and I noticed the oil pressure suddenly drop-I drive with one eye on the oil pressure gauge. I found that if I kept the revs up the oil pressure was not too bad-down from 50 to about 35-40 so we kept going running in train with a Porsche at about 75 mph.
We reached the finish at Boston Bar and had lunch and then I decided that with a cooler engine I should examine the cause of low oil pressure-only to find NO oil pressure on start up.
Subsequent strip down has found the following-the oil pick up pipe had cracked badly and #2 rod bearing is damaged and the crank is blued. Shit!