New(ish) Sprint Owner

[ppnelan]

Well, it's fairly watertight-ish and mostly reliable-ish...

The 'distressed paintwork' is a bonus. No worries when leaving it in the supermarket car park, and I often use it as a workbench when sawing wood... This would make a good photo/caption competition as it is parked next to my original B&D (Ron Hickman-designed) Workmate!

Matthew

[Elanintheforest]

Matthew, your car doesn't begin to compare with the green horror. What I hate about mucked-about Elans is any sort of flaired out arches, formed from a corn flake packet, with wheels that are then too small to fill the arches. The other sins on the green car are easily fixable, but those arches would take a lot of work.

Your car looks like an old family friend...but I'd have to, at least, take that bumper off and paint it! Having said that, I bought the yellow S4 that was in the 'for sale' on this forum a couple of moths ago. A few gel coat cracks...no problem, and hand painted silver bumpers. Hand painted with a toothbrush by the looks of it, and it's too cold to paint them for a while...but they will be done.

Have you seen Brian Buckland's S3 Coupe? It doesn't look like it's done 650,000 miles...more like 250,000 But he is getting it painted soon....
Mark

[garyeanderson]

Matthew, your car doesn't begin to compare with the green horror. What I hate about mucked-about Elans is any sort of flaired out arches, formed from a corn flake packet, with wheels that are then too small to fill the arches. The other sins on the green car are easily fixable, but those arches would take a lot of work.

Your car looks like an old family friend...but I'd have to, at least, take that bumper off and paint it! Having said that, I bought the yellow S4 that was in the 'for sale' on this forum a couple of moths ago. A few gel coat cracks...no problem, and hand painted silver bumpers. Hand painted with a toothbrush by the looks of it, and it's too cold to paint them for a while...but they will be done.

Have you seen Brian Buckland's S3 Coupe? It doesn't look like it's done 650,000 miles...more like 250,000 But he is getting it painted soon....
Mark

Like this?

Gary

[Elanintheforest]

Did you use a corn flake packet, and are 4.5 inch wheels on the car
Mark

[garyeanderson]

Did you use a corn flake packet, and are 4.5 inch wheels on the car
Mark

The S3 Coupe is a RHD and had a monster roll bar when I bought it. It also came with 6 inch front and 7 inch back JAP Magna wheels. I bought it in Canada from Brian Robinson. Brian had it stored at Ken Mason's shop. When I picked it up Ken asked if I wanted a Plus2, I assume it may be the same car that was recently bought in Calgery.

the S3 came with a rather unique engine out of a Lotus Cortina, the 4 bolt crank was modified to except a lip seal and had a new rear seal holder machined from billit Aluminum and the Pan had a machined steel piece welded to it. All real nice work.

[elj221c]

Gary,

A bit like mine, then?

Mark, I like my wonky arches!

Roy
'65S2

[garyeanderson]

Gary,

A bit like mine, then?

Mark, I like my wonky arches!

Roy
'65S2

Hi Roy

Your rear arches appear to have curves, my Coupe looks like a carpenter added a 3 pitch shed dormer over each rear arch.

Gary

[ppnelan]

Hey Roy (ELY221C), I like the colour-coordination in your photo... Do you have clothing to match your car's colour too?!

Matthew

[Elanintheforest]

Tell us more, Roy. How long have you had it...when was it last on the road.. what plans..if any?! A lot of work if you wanted to return that shell back to stock...but a new shell is only ?3k or so.

Looks like a great refugee from the tasteful 70s It would have then run alongside one of these (the bloke, not the Mex!)

Mark

[elj221c]

Thanks for your interest, Mark. I've had the car since '75 and it was as it is now except it was much less knocked about. I did put a Spyder spaceframe under it in '82 because a front turret collapsed due to the usual rust, fortunatly without causing too much damage. I also rebuilt the engine on a 1600 crossflow block as the old block had worn out, which I didn't rebore as it was already out to 83.5mm with Cosworth pistons. I made the mistake of scrapping the block.......! I also changed the BRM phase 3 cams for CPL2s. I still kept with the 83.5pistons so we had a 1700 but it was never as nice as the 1600.
The car clocked up 100000 miles in '83. It was stolen in January '89 which was the last time it was on the road. It has been stored in various places and now sits in the front garden awaiting the completion of my new garage come workshop. I just have to put power and lights in and paint the floor and walls then the rebuild can start. I had wanted to get it sorted for it's fortieth but only got as far a building a new engine before the decision to extend the house with the bonus of the new garage so the rebuild was put on hold.
The plan is to keep the body the way it is. I was told from the seller that it had been made like this in '70 so to me it is original. I must confess that at the time I was looking for a +2 but the seller was a friend's neighbour who needed to sell in a hurry so I took it off his hands, just to help him out....
Hopefully it will back on the road before 20 years is up!
Err, Mathew, no I don't have matching gear!

Roy
'65S2