New member looking for a previously family owned Elan Sprint
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 11:35 pm
Hi Guys,
My dad used to own a Sprint, he sold it approx 35 years ago to fund a family business, at the time it meant nothing to me other than it was pretty cool.
Now that I'm a little older I have started to appreciate the sacrifice he made in selling it
I've looked on the gov MOT checker and it appears to be sorn but not MOTd for a long time so it's probably scrapped or in a garden/garage somewhere.
My plan is to make a model of it as fathers day/birthday present (I'm quite into making airfix type stuff but this would be my first car as I usually build model planes)
I already have the Gunze Sangyo Lotus Elan S3 kit which I can convert to the Sprint colours etc
As this will be a surprise I cant ask him for any pics/info specifically about his car although my mum is going to try and find some photos of it so I can model a decent copy of it. but I thought I'd join this group and see if anyone had any recent history or even knew where it was (if I could build a model then hand him the keys to the real thing that would be the best birthday present I could give him)
The original reg was DKT666K
I'm really just after any pics of it but if it still exists then I would be interested in buying it as well.
Drop me a line if you can help, even if you have owned it but have no pics I'd ben interested in quick chat
Axe
My dad used to own a Sprint, he sold it approx 35 years ago to fund a family business, at the time it meant nothing to me other than it was pretty cool.
Now that I'm a little older I have started to appreciate the sacrifice he made in selling it
I've looked on the gov MOT checker and it appears to be sorn but not MOTd for a long time so it's probably scrapped or in a garden/garage somewhere.
My plan is to make a model of it as fathers day/birthday present (I'm quite into making airfix type stuff but this would be my first car as I usually build model planes)
I already have the Gunze Sangyo Lotus Elan S3 kit which I can convert to the Sprint colours etc
As this will be a surprise I cant ask him for any pics/info specifically about his car although my mum is going to try and find some photos of it so I can model a decent copy of it. but I thought I'd join this group and see if anyone had any recent history or even knew where it was (if I could build a model then hand him the keys to the real thing that would be the best birthday present I could give him)
The original reg was DKT666K
I'm really just after any pics of it but if it still exists then I would be interested in buying it as well.
Drop me a line if you can help, even if you have owned it but have no pics I'd ben interested in quick chat
Axe