Bonnet Catch

I’ve just bought a couple of bonnet catches for my Elan.

In the 35 years I’ve owned the car it’s never had any of these fitted - so a couple of questions. Existing catches look like parts of tin of baked beans.

How are they supposed to be fitted ( a photo would be very helpful) and why has each bracket got 4 holes?

The Baked Bean Tin catches are correct… Does your bonnet pop up at speed with these? The later ones are for S4 onwards and I think the catch opening in the fibre glass is fully cut out (u-shape). On early cars, the tin sheet is folded around the remaining fibre glass bridge (rectangular cut out).
To make new ones for the S1, just take a suitable sheet of stainless steel, cut to size and fold around like the original.
On my car, the new catches like those you aquired are riveted on the rear outside of the bonnet over the fibre glass bridge and the bonnet still pops up at speed… :unamused: I then fitted a small stripe of soft foam at the front of the bonnet to press it backwards against those brackets: It works…
I have to fit the original bonnet springs to sort that out.

Anna

Those are not for an S1. Those look to be for the later S4’s, S1’s and S2’s mearly wraped a thin sheet of metal around the fiberglass.

Gary


Thanks for the info and the pictures.
I’ll stick with the bakebean solution