fastback elan

[Old English White]

Pete

You have me foxed by your blue fastback. There is a black and white photo of the car in the C&SC Mar 92 edition, but it is attributed to Ian Walker, who seems to have made some road going fastbacks as well as his better known racing fastbacks.

You clearly know that it is not an Ian Walker creation and it is clearly not the Frua or a Shapecraft. Not a Harry Radford conversion by any chance?

Tim

Does this help !?!



As you can see , specialy from the front end , not that elegant ... Only unique.
Please , do not add one !
Christian.

[Elanintheforest]

Thank you Christian, the agony is over.
So, apart from the IWR, the IWR special, the Shapecraft, the Frua and the Elanbulance, what else have the Romans ever done for us?

[trw99]

The blue fast back looks like the Frua Elan. The Swiss Lotus importer commissioned a one-off styling project and showed it at the Geneva Motor Show in 1964. It took three years to actually get onto the road after the show, according to one account. However the Frua had a larger and squarer rear window and rear three-quarter windows behind the doors.

About this time Ian Walker also produced a one off fast back for a Swiss customer and maybe this is the blue car above.

Tim

So Pete

I was right and you prolonged the agony! Or is there something else your not telling us?

Well done - a good quiz.

Tim

[elansprint71]

Tim,
I was going to say that I though that it WAS the IWR road car (but I was not sure).

[twincamman]

welll the old saying of --' give and englishman a piece of aluminum and he will do something stupid with it now extends to fiber glass -- -ed

[jiminy]

[quote="Old English White"]
As you can see , specialy from the front end , not that elegant ... Only unique.
Please , do not add one !
Christian.quote]

never going to happen, my aim would probably be to produce something simalar to the frua
i would start with a coupe and if i couldnt produce something worthwhile, i would keep the body standard

[SADLOTUS]

welll the old saying of --' give and englishman a piece of aluminum and he will do something stupid with it now extends to fiber glass -- -ed

er.......and who said that then?

[Old English White]

... Let's see Jiminy's masterpiece in a few years .
Maybe , until this day , we 'll know more on Jiminy (new-tral today) and have meet each other.
I just wonder how you are going to built it , what are your knowledge and facilities ... If you are just speaking arround for collecting infos or docs on the subject ... for everything else ...
Christian.

[twincamman]

welll the old saying of --' give and englishman a piece of aluminum and he will do something stupid with it now extends to fiber glass -- -ed

er.......and who said that then?

I heard it from the French --ed

[elansprint71]

... Let's see Jiminy's masterpiece in a few years .
Maybe , until this day , we 'll know more on Jiminy (new-tral today) and have meet each other.
I just wonder how you are going to built it , what are your knowledge and facilities ... If you are just speaking arround for collecting infos or docs on the subject ... for everything else ...
Christian.

Yeah, let's wait and see, but in the meantime Christian, let's not hold our breath!!!

Quite interesting to check isp addresses, btw; reveals a few split personalities; or should I say Trolls?

[trw99]

I found this cutting of a targa fastback Elan from an old French car magazine; no clues as to date other than the car appears to have been exhibited at the Racing Car Show in London. Must be around 1966 I would guess.

On the signs at the base the centre one reads "camossmie muller, 80 rue anntole france paris, tel 737 24 26" and the next sign reads "Elan Lotus Europe, transformations racing, ou coupe convertible, passages de roues, arceaux sieges, rous de 6 pouces, bottom line un-readable". The other signs presumably refer to their work on BMW, Escorts and Capris.

Anyone throw any light onto this?

[elansprint71]

That's quite an idea!
No, that's a new one on me- does not feature in any of my books.

Cheers,
Pete.

[trw99]

It's Friday afternoon and I'm bored!

These two advertisements for the same car are probably from Autosport and Motor Sport. Gold Seal of course were a well known garage in SE London; Dave Brodie campaigned an Elan for them in the early 70s. The rear three quarter windows are not the normal Shapecraft style, so what is this?

[elansprint71]

Hey, keep this up! Not seen that one before either, the squared off rear arch predicts the series 4.

Pete.