I’ve made threads about other cars I’ve owned and worked on, and although that does not seem to be as much of a norm on this forum I hope it will be accepted. I recently became caretaker of a 1967 Elan S3 SE DHC, purchased from its original owner. He put 80-ish thousand enthusiastic miles on the car under his tenure, including doing a bit of hillclimb racing and several long journeys across swaths of the US. It had literally been part of his family for almost 60 years. When I discuss its acquisition I use the word ‘adopted’ rather than ‘bought’ because that is what it feels like.
I’ll use this thread to document the work I do to the car as I go. My main objective – for now at least – is to bring the car back towards as-new mechanical performance while preserving as much as possible. The car is largely original, and had been well maintained by the original owner, so it still has its original paint for example. But 80K miles and 60-odd years is still a lot of use and so I have some work ahead.
Here is the car in Al’s garage, before it came to reside with us. Yes he has a two post lift! It came in handy as we had to replace the LH motor mount and do some other things before I made the 1-1/2 hour drive back to my place.
Here it is in front of its current digs.
