Interestingly the same car was being run. Courier chassis await the fitment of bodies and final assembly. Having left the elva team just before christmas 1956, ‘mac’ worked for a while at a local hurst green garage but soon turned to harry weslake for advice
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Harry suggested that he should apply to rover and vauxhall and he was welcomed into the experimental department at vauxhalls.
Some months ago i received an email from david white who is a very knowledge model maker and collector regarding the elva engineering van which he had seen at the goodwood revival
He subsequently put together the following article which appeared in the “diecast collector” magazine. A look at the photograph of the elva engineering team outside the york workshop shows charlie in the light overalls, but his working relationship with fgn goes back far longer and lasted for nearly fifty years. The car and owner/driver recently had an outing at the kyalami circuit with details at the elva forum There is more about the ownership history of 70/067 in the elva.
Friday night elva car show for race and street cars will be the largest gathering of elvas in the us be part of the photo shoot!
