Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 8:05 am
I recently discovered this picture. I enjoyed watching all of the big banger sports cars from around this time.
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Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
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Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 9:28 pm
Me too! And I would love to see it..
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:41 am
The most important thing on the Elfin 400- it was a big block. The others that were built by Elfin in Aus were not big block.That I believe makes it all the more unique. Graham Harvey also removed the original Elfin body that Buchanan ran it with , and got a GEMCO Special body of Pederson to put on it.
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:45 am
Found this in old scrap book
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:36 am
Would Buchanan in the Elfin be Andy Buchanan? Bloody neat picture Rod!
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:56 am
Yes, Andrew Buchanan was the original owner/pedaller, Steve. Car was a crisp white with one red stripe down the side. Later, under Harv's ownership it was pale blue with orange stripes outlined in black. In either guise, it was one horn machine.
And we're STILL keen to see colinjt's pic from the original post...
And we're STILL keen to see colinjt's pic from the original post...
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:53 pm
Even better we would love to see some pictures and see the condition it is in today
Cheers
Lynds
Cheers
Lynds
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:17 pm
Hay Guy I think that is Puki as I was racing the cooper with the Supercharged 3.8 in it Jamie
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:15 am
jamie wrote:Hay Guy I think that is Puki as I was racing the cooper with the Supercharged 3.8 in it Jamie
I think you are correct Jamie, I remember we celebrated your 50th in the pub that night ;-)
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 2:01 am
As an aside, the Pukekohe esses pic wouldn't be from 1969 either. Harvey would have been in the Elfin by then, and Jim Boyd pedalling the Stanton Corvette. The pic is most likely from the '67/'68 season, and Boyd was probably not far behind in the Lycoming.
Which he'd probably driven to the meeting...
Which he'd probably driven to the meeting...
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:04 am
If that is the date no I would not have been there Jamie
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:20 am
Must have been away celebrating your 49th then, Jamie... 
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:17 am
GD66 wrote:Yes, Andrew Buchanan was the original owner/pedaller, Steve. Car was a crisp white with one red stripe down the side. Later, under Harv's ownership it was pale blue with orange stripes outlined in black. In either guise, it was one horn machine.
And we're STILL keen to see colinjt's pic from the original post...
Ahh, wow, thanks. Thats great info. The Ferrari he raced was well documented, but I didn't seem to know about the Elfin. Andy actually lives about 20 mins form me and is good mates with the guy who lives across the road. I keep meaning to organise to meet him.
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:57 am
He popped up in a Brabham, then the Ferrari, then the Elfin, then I gather packed in the racing to go back to being what he was always described as, a "gentleman farmer" from the Masterton area, if I recall. Certainly had some good tackle at his disposal during a short career.
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:07 pm
Hi Steve, there is no shortage of documentation on the Elfin out there under Buchanan and Harvey ,maybe a bit hazy with subsequent owners. Harvey change the big block 396 to a 350
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:11 am
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:19 am
Finally, the picture ! Thanks Colin, worth the wait. But the question is, to what car does exhaust of the third starter on the front row, just visible behind the Elfin, belong ?
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:45 am
I believe it was the Daimler Heron, a strange looking car and never really up there with the Lola and Elfin.
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 9:18 am
I don't recollect the Heron Daimler with anything other than 8 separate pipes going up.
Re: Elfin 400 and Lola T70 Baypark Raceway 1969
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 9:20 am
John Moynahan in the Stanton Corvette , maybe?