August 2022 was the final newsletter Harry suggested that he should apply to rover and vauxhall and he was welcomed into the experimental department at vauxhalls. The car and owner/driver recently had an outing at the kyalami circuit with details at the elva forum
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There is more about the ownership history of 70/067 in the elva.
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. 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 Interestingly the same car was being run.
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! 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. 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.
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
