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Re: Have You a Photo of Your Elan in the 60s/70s?

PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:49 pm
by Slowtus
Posted elsewhere but worth reposting ...

S2 and a couple/few Plus 2's


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69-plus-2-top.jpg and


72-plus-2s-front-large.jpg and


during.jpg and

Re: Have You a Photo of Your Elan in the 60s/70s?

PostPosted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:07 am
by RedS4
My car in the early '70's about four owners back, in its original yellow, before it turned red about 25 - 30 years ago, and how it looked at its last outing (a few years ago).

Re: Have You a Photo of Your Elan in the 60s/70s?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:55 am
by trw99
Time for a bump!

This was the dash of my first Sprint (bought in 1976), with an 8 track stereo. The glovebox held only about four of those huge cassettes. On long journeys the music could get rather repetitive!

The black spoked Moto Lita steering wheel had come out of my Mini. I can't recall what I did with the steering wheel the Sprint came with, but I'm pretty sure it was not the original - at least, I hope it wasn't!

Post some more snaps, folks!

Tim

Re: Have You a Photo of Your Elan in the 60s/70s?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 12:20 pm
by TBG
Ere we go Tim! D

Elan S3 SAR 370D (6).jpg and


SAR370D (1).jpg and


Lotus SAR 370D (12).jpg and

Re: Have You a Photo of Your Elan in the 60s/70s?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 1:38 pm
by TBG
Bump start this one! I suppose those of us who were running Elans in the 1960s are now in their 80s - I know I am! Still driving them though and off to the Pyranees in June for a blast or two. The photos posted above were around the time our wedding in 1966 - we nearly went away from the reception in it but knowing our friends we went away in an old Landrover, covered in Properts white - remember that? and half a ton of tin cans. Went on to Heathrow in the Elan. Then children came along and in one photo you can see the Cortina Estate for SWMBO and the Moke for me - had it for 13 years as my daily driver and took it to the USA twice, Greece, Malta, Monte Carlo - Carribean twice, Gibraltar - all courtesy of Her Majesties ship HMS Bulwark. Happy days and probably not possible today. Come on you very oldies show us you are not dead - yet! D

Bulwark tour (88).jpg and

Re: Have You a Photo of Your Elan in the 60s/70s?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 2:02 pm
by NickWilmshurst
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Here's my S2 in the mid-70's along with a GT6 which was the worst car I've ever owned!

Re: Have You a Photo of Your Elan in the 60s/70s?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 2:37 pm
by DrinkMan
The original owner of our Elan was James Clark (not "THE Jim Clark") who was the son of Henry Austin Clark Jr (he is worth a google search) who owned the Long Island Auto Museum. At one point, the Elan was featured on a post card from the Long Island Auto Museum. Here is the post card (one came with the car, I bought another from the Henry Ford Museum):
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Re: Have You a Photo of Your Elan in the 60s/70s?

PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 1:27 am
by rgh0
My Elan in 1976 not long after i purchased it. Riding high at the front as the engine is out for my first learnings on building and modifying Twincams !

Elan 1976.jpg and


cheers
Rohan

Re: Have You a Photo of Your Elan in the 60s/70s?

PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:41 pm
by elanner
Well, I've posted this in a different thread sometime in the past but I'll repost it here mostly because I'm amazed that it's such a good quality photo.

Taken in 1974 with a Canon FT, probably with a 50mm (or 55mm?) lens, 35mm slide format. I scanned it with an Epson V600 scanner during the quiet days of early Covid lockdown. Few of my other slides have held up as well as this one.

Anyway, it's my first Elan. S4, 1969.

74-01-Elan-1.jpg and

I seem to have no good pictures of my second Elan, a red S3, 1967, except this one, viewed through a fence. This was taken at a Lotus meeting at Goodwood in, I think, June 1979. The other three photos were taken at the same event. Goodwood race track was pretty scrubby back then. :-)

Happy days!

Nick

79-06-Goodwood-Lotus-Day-Kathy.jpg and

79-06-Goodwood-Lotus-Day-1.jpg and

79-06-Goodwood-Lotus-Day-2.jpg and

79-06-Goodwood-Lotus-Day-3.jpg and

Re: Have You a Photo of Your Elan in the 60s/70s?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 5:36 am
by vstibbard
Jim (L) Bill (R) Pushing car onto trailer for Maiden drive.jpg and
26-S2-40 being loaded for its first test drive. Owner Bill Gates and Co Driver/Mechanic Jim Bertram


1st run in pits.jpg and
Waiting in pits before 1st drive


67-JB SPoctober 67 (6).jpg and
Orginal owner Bill Gates taking my 26R out for its first track outing


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My 26R Lakeside 68 12 hour race start, the car finished 2nd outright to the 250LM