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Put-in-Bay 2025 celebrates 70th anniversary of Elva

The 2025 Put-in-Bay Sports Car Races celebrates the 70th anniversary of Elva and will host a "Mini-vs.-Spridget Challenge.”

Thoroughly restored Elva Mk VII | Car Catcher

This Elva is said to have logged zero miles since its ground-up restoration.

Car Catcher: A Factory-Backed Elva Mk IV With Notable Racing History

A factory-backed Elva with a podium finish at Sebring.

In the September Issue: Project Elva Part 4 | Repairing a Badly Battered Body

While molds do exist to completely replace our Elva’s body, we decided to repair our fiberglass instead.

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1962 Mk VI

This rough fiberglass body might not look like much, but it's actually a rare 1962 Elva Mk VI sports racer—and one with a storied history nonetheless.

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The final touches before we paint our Elva Mk VI racer

Our primary goal at this point was to finish our entire Elva Mk VI chassis and mechanical bits so that we could then disassemble everything and paint the frame.

Before painting …

How much throttle cable does an Elva Mk VI need?

The next item on our Elva sports racer’s to-do list was to figure out how the throttle cable was going to be routed. While we did not have the throttle …

Why a more modern fuel pump is a wise upgrade for our Elva Mk VI

We’ve been working diligently to restore our Elva Mk VI sports racer to factory conditions, returning it to its 1962 Sebring trim.

But we did deviate a little from stock …

Deducing the correct location to mount our Elva’s rebuilt fuel cell

Now that our Elva’s fuel cell had been restored by ATL, we needed to mount it. But how? There isn’t any kind of restoration manual for this.

While going …

How we restored the one-off fuel cell in our Elva Mk VI

As an endurance race car built to run the Sebring 12 Hours in 1962, our Elva Mk VI sports racer originally came equipped with twin side-saddle aluminum fuel tanks.

While …

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Aug 17, 2021 by ElvaMKII
1957 Elva MK II Sports Racer

Imported by Burdie Martin, raced by him and by Frank Campbell and Chuck Dietrich at Road America in '58. Restored in 1994 and raced at Monterey Histoirics 2007, 2008 and …

Aug 17, 2021 by mgbgtracer
1964 Elva Mk IV

Sebring IRS - Always a race car - Prepared at factory for Sebring in 1966

Aug 17, 2021 by RonDavis
1962 Elva Courier Mk IV

Roadster, slightly enhanced MGB engine, Sage Green metallic colofr

Aug 17, 2021 by vintageracer98
1960 Elva 200 Formula Junior

This a very early 200 and is currently completing restoration. I hope to have it on track in the spring. Two of my racing buddies (Tom Grudovich & Hervey Parke) …

Aug 17, 2021 by elvacar
1961 Elva Courier

http://elvacourier.blogspot.com/ A recent issue of the magazine indicated that the Elva was a suitable alternate foil for a person hankering after a MGA/MGB as they shared a similar engine. I …

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