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A Moooote point.

When covid is a memory..................

Some time in the mid 1980s

Some time between mid 1977 and 1980.

Written off (insurance purposes but easily repairable) by an elderly gentleman in a Granada.
Sold on to a specialist who did re-build the car. Currently registered and MOTd somewhere in the east of England( Ipswich area ? ). I've been trying to contact the present owner, so far without success. If you bump into him at the filling station, please let him know.

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Is that a recent photo, Gordon? In the early 70s I was working on a radar speed meter for the big SRN4 hovercraft, a problem being that it rarely pointed in the direction it travelled. We designed a solution but it was never tried and nowadays I expect they use GPS. It was a terrible environment for electronics hanging on the back.

Meg,
Not too recent - 19.8.1989. The (swiss) guy in the picture came across, he had crashed his elan at Brands....
(I was also in electronics by the way - the hovercraft environment wasn't that great for humans either, especially when the sea was rough - one time after embarking on the french side I had to sit for 15mins until my full body pins and needles went away...)

... and that lovely red VW Polo „Bonzai-Shootingbreak“.Had one of these for more than 30 years. Moved a lot of Elan parts. 720kg, quick little car. Nice picture!
Anna

Just look how little space that lovely example takes up.
How can you fail to love these cars

Little space indeed!!