What type of car is this

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Richard Towle · #1 Post by **Richard Towle** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:24 am

What is this, and how many where made?

Rich

Brett Johnson · #2 Post by **Brett Johnson** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:48 am

[quote="Richard Towle"]What is this, and how many where made?

Rich

It is an Elva/Porsche -- allegedly 19 were made. Many more Elvas of roughly this configuration were made with other engine types

Rod Emory · #3 Post by **Rod Emory** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:17 pm

This is a photo of me standing inside the body of our Elva Porsche in 1975. I was just over a year old. And no I don't have a beer belly anymore.

Barry Brisco · #4 Post by **Barry Brisco** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:28 pm

Richard Towle wrote:What is this, and how many where made?

Rich

Brett Johnson wrote:It is an Elva/Porsche -- allegedly 19 were made. Many more Elvas of roughly this configuration were made with other engine types

Brett, how can you tell from that single photo that it is an Elva with a Porsche engine?

Barry

Tim Havermans · #5 Post by **Tim Havermans** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:42 pm

this car is on Display in the PROTOTYP Museum (link to pictures of the museum (and the car shown) can be found on my website).
Too bad I don't have a VIN number of the car, since it wasn't displayed
and the owners of the Museum were far to busy receiving congratulions so I just didn't want to bother them. In case any of you
has VIN of this particular Elva, I'd be glad to get it.

_______________________________________________________
Tim Havermans
http://www.liebe-zu-ihm.be

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Richard Towle wrote:What is this, and how many where made?

Rich

It is an Elva/Porsche -- allegedly 19 were made. Many more Elvas of roughly this configuration were made with other engine types

Brett Johnson

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Brett Johnson · #6 Post by **Brett Johnson** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:18 pm

Brett, how can you tell from that single photo that it is an Elva with a Porsche engine?

Barry[/quote]

It looks like an Elva -- and it has a Porsche script on the front and since it is on this forum and not on -- say -- the Coventry Climax Forum, I just assumed.

Those with more knowledge can probably point out other subtleties of the body work.

Richard Towle · #7 Post by **Richard Towle** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:46 pm

Its from the Belgium guys site and yes it is at the prototype museum, with the logo, so you gotta assume its real.

Rich

Larry Wilson · #8 Post by **Larry Wilson** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:15 pm

Barry:

Here's a clue: Can you see the name on the nose of the car? What does it say?

Larry Wilson

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