Final dis-assembly

December 13, 2011

Really, I hope this is the last time.  This past summer (2011) I finally decided that everything had been properly pre-assembled well enough, that I could put the final coats of DP-90 primer on all the bits and pieces.  Damn, there are a lot of bits and pieces!  Individually painting all of them was more work than I expected, and took a lot longer than I’d hoped, but here we go:


Hello world!

September 24, 2010

This is my first post.  I have no idea what I am doing, yet.  My intention is to keep my friends posted on the progress of the restoration of this 1963 Elva Courier Mk3 from basketcase condition to a vintage racer.   Please let me know if anything looks amiss, because I am constantly making changes.

My name is Andy Rich.  I’m an engineer who is building a vintage race car, actually rebuilding one, which happens to have been built in the same year I was born — 1963. Coincidentally, this car is chassis number 1063.   I have been a British car restoration specialist for about 20+ years, but this is the most extensive project I have ever done.

Here are some photos of the current state of affairs:

Things are getting messy


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