Time has marched on and it is now jonathan playfoot who is the talented engineer running playfoot engineering and pete barnard who drives the superbly prepared courier to achieve such outstanding results In spite of securing an outrageously expensive speeding ticket wheeling to the event almost thirty years ago, nothing could ruin that show for me Interestingly the same car was being run.
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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.
They have now been converted to pdf for download August 2022 was the final newsletter Elva owners and cars are invited and encouraged to attend this very special event A detailed schedule with timings will be announced soon
Award winning author janos wimpffen will be the keynote. 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 Harry suggested that he should apply to rover and vauxhall and he was welcomed into the experimental department at vauxhalls. 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!
I attended my first monterey historics in 1980, ironically another “year of the porsche” like 2009
