I recently discovered this picture. I enjoyed watching all of the big banger sports cars from around this time.
I recently discovered this picture. I enjoyed watching all of the big banger sports cars from around this time.
Me too! And I would love to see it..
The most important thing on the Elfin 400- it was a big block. The others that were built by Elfin in Aus were not big block.That I believe makes it all the more unique. Graham Harvey also removed the original Elfin body that Buchanan ran it with , and got a GEMCO Special body of Pederson to put on it.
Found this in old scrap book
Would Buchanan in the Elfin be Andy Buchanan? Bloody neat picture Rod!
Yes, Andrew Buchanan was the original owner/pedaller, Steve. Car was a crisp white with one red stripe down the side. Later, under Harv's ownership it was pale blue with orange stripes outlined in black. In either guise, it was one horn machine.
And we're STILL keen to see colinjt's pic from the original post...
Even better we would love to see some pictures and see the condition it is in today
Cheers
Lynds
Hi Steve, there is no shortage of documentation on the Elfin out there under Buchanan and Harvey ,maybe a bit hazy with subsequent owners. Harvey change the big block 396 to a 350
Finally, the picture ! Thanks Colin, worth the wait. But the question is, to what car does exhaust of the third starter on the front row, just visible behind the Elfin, belong ?
Hi all,
I was having a big nostalgia moment today & tripped over this forum...... what a great bit of kit & a lot of the fuzzy memories are flooding back.
Back in the mid 60's my brother (19yrs my senior) worked for Hamlin, Charles & Grant, later Hamlin & Charles(after Kerry's horrific accident) so I was a very lucky kid to sit in & in some cases get a ride in awesome cars.
The best sit'in was Jim Clark's Lotus & the wildest ride'in was Andy's Elfin tho the 250LM was a very close 2nd.
My brother, Graham had maintained both the 250LM & Elfin 400 but was lucky enough to spanner on Andrew Cowen's Rally Clubman GT + did the engine work for Colin Taylor's 1600 & 2lit BDA's.
Graham rebuilt the 396 out of the Elfin before it did a 2yr stint in Spinner Blacks Power Boat.
When I worked for Joseph Lucas Electrical I met & became good friends with Kerry Little when he had purchased the now rebuilt to 427B/B & installed it into his front engined VW beetle hotrod 'King Rat'.
I can see myself spending hour catching up/reading heaps on this site.
Congratulations on this amazing forum & thank everyone for doing a lot to preserve our motor racing history.
Cheers,
AL
hi Al....spent a lot of time around Hamlin & Charles during this time what was your brothers surname ???
Hay Guy I think that is Puki as I was racing the cooper with the Supercharged 3.8 in it Jamie
As an aside, the Pukekohe esses pic wouldn't be from 1969 either. Harvey would have been in the Elfin by then, and Jim Boyd pedalling the Stanton Corvette. The pic is most likely from the '67/'68 season, and Boyd was probably not far behind in the Lycoming.
Which he'd probably driven to the meeting...
If that is the date no I would not have been there Jamie
Must have been away celebrating your 49th then, Jamie...
He popped up in a Brabham, then the Ferrari, then the Elfin, then I gather packed in the racing to go back to being what he was always described as, a "gentleman farmer" from the Masterton area, if I recall. Certainly had some good tackle at his disposal during a short career.