Re: Please Introduce your self and welcome to LotusElan.net
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:59 am
I really enjoyed reading the posts in this thread.
My name is Adi Granov. I was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia (former Yugoslavia). Left there in '95 with my family after we had had enough of the war, and went in search of a better life in the US. After a decade there, having met and married an English girl, I moved to Yorkshire. I am an illustrator and designer and I work mostly with Marvel Entertainment. My most prominent work has been designing Iron Man for the movie which came out last year (as well as its sequel out next year).
I've always been interested in everything mechanical, but classic cars in particular became an obsession when I was given my first ride in a muscle car, a '71 Mustang Mach1. While in the States I owned a '68 Oldsmobile 442, which was great fun, but really a pretty awful car to drive. Drove it from Seattle to LA once and at 8mpg it nearly bankrupted me.
My wife's father is one of the biggest petrolheads the world has ever seen and he has really become my guide and cohort with all things on wheels. He is a big AC man, but having completed the Ace he was working on at the time he was looking for a new project. We went to a salvage auction to look at a Daimler Dart and returned home with a crashed Sprint instead. Driving that Sprint convinced me that I had to have an Elan. It was simply the loveliest car I had ever driven. I decided I wanted a coupe, and after reading an interview with Gordon Murray, I decided it had to be an S3. It's a work in progress, but the ownership so far has been an absolute joy. Since bringing it home I've tried to complete at least a couple of jobs ever week, the sense of accomplishment has become incredibly addictive. This forum and website have been an incredible source of information and I've been logging on almost every day just soaking up as much information as possible.
Adi
My name is Adi Granov. I was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia (former Yugoslavia). Left there in '95 with my family after we had had enough of the war, and went in search of a better life in the US. After a decade there, having met and married an English girl, I moved to Yorkshire. I am an illustrator and designer and I work mostly with Marvel Entertainment. My most prominent work has been designing Iron Man for the movie which came out last year (as well as its sequel out next year).
I've always been interested in everything mechanical, but classic cars in particular became an obsession when I was given my first ride in a muscle car, a '71 Mustang Mach1. While in the States I owned a '68 Oldsmobile 442, which was great fun, but really a pretty awful car to drive. Drove it from Seattle to LA once and at 8mpg it nearly bankrupted me.
My wife's father is one of the biggest petrolheads the world has ever seen and he has really become my guide and cohort with all things on wheels. He is a big AC man, but having completed the Ace he was working on at the time he was looking for a new project. We went to a salvage auction to look at a Daimler Dart and returned home with a crashed Sprint instead. Driving that Sprint convinced me that I had to have an Elan. It was simply the loveliest car I had ever driven. I decided I wanted a coupe, and after reading an interview with Gordon Murray, I decided it had to be an S3. It's a work in progress, but the ownership so far has been an absolute joy. Since bringing it home I've tried to complete at least a couple of jobs ever week, the sense of accomplishment has become incredibly addictive. This forum and website have been an incredible source of information and I've been logging on almost every day just soaking up as much information as possible.
Adi