bigvalvehead wrote:Lotus FerreiraPires2 (1).pdf
Hi Pete
here is anther pic from Angola. Alongside is the 26R I have recently purchased and brought back from Angola.
Can you enhance any of the other pics to see if the reg no matches my car AAM-20-20.
Dave Hughes
Hi Dave, I'll see what I can do! Not many of the photos I've found are brilliant quality and most are quite small, so it's not easy. Also several cars don't carry registrations. Do you know what colour your purchase was when it was racing back then? I can see two red "26/Rs" along with the SMART, plus some other Elans in B&W shots.
Looks like I have a new project- perhaps if anyone has access to ANY Angolan Elan photos they could post links here? Probably we'll get duplications but that does not matter.
What I can't really fathom is just why so many exotic sports cars would be over there- Ferrari 250SWB, GTO, GT40 etc. I'm not quite old enough(!) to remember the history of Portugal and it's colonies in that period; any info would be helpful.
Was your car on the "missing" list or did you already know where it was some while ago? If you could give me a PM regarding "African mysteries" perhaps I can find more photos; they turn up in the most unexpected places.
This thread:
lotus-carbs-f40/lotus-elan-26r-carlos-gaspar-t1888.html might be part of the jigsaw.