Over the past 3-4 months I must have looked at getting on for a dozen Elites in the UK & Europe but nothing (so far) has 'ticked all of the boxes'.
Paul Matty (who, for those that don't know, is one of the longest-established/best known Classic Lotus specialists) is only 10 mins from my home so I often call in to see if anything new has come in.
I was there a couple of months ago checking out an Elite - one of 3 that they currently have for sale - & got chatting to Gordon Murray (of McLaren fame) who was collecting his gorgeous S3 Elan after having had some work done to it.
He was very enthusiastic about Elans & that got me thinking - maybe I should consider one of those as a 'stop-gap' whilst continuing my quest for an Elite ...
I looked at/tried a few at Paul Matty's - it had to be an S3 FHC - but again, nothing was exactly what I was looking for (apart from Gordon Murray's car which definitely wasn't for sale !)
Several DDKers had noticed a trend in the pictures I was posting in the 'non-Porsche picture of the day' thread & one contacted me to see if I might be interested in an Elan that he'd just acquired...
To cut an even longer story short, it turned out to be a car that I'd inquired about a few months before when it had been for sale at the Hairpin Motor Co !
So a trip down to see the car in question at Robert Barrie's storage facility in Iver Heath & the deal was done.
After that long-winded introduction, here are a few poor quality pictures taken after the car arrived earlier in the week:
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