1959 Elva Courier

Photographs of two 1959 Elva Couriers here that I took at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

This is an early morning (8.35am) photo of Paul Andrew's 1959 Elva Courier in the scrutineering bay, Around 400 of the MkI and MkII Courier were built between 1958 and 1961 when the company went into voluntary liquidation, the MkI cars having 1500cc MGA or Riley engines, and the MkII cars the 1600cc MGA engines. The programme of the event shows this car to have a 1500cc engine.

I took this photograph in the paddock a little later in the morning.

The car was due to race in the Equipe Pre '63 race and here it is at Druids Corner during the morning qualifying session being driven (according to the results sheet) by Tom Andrew, who also drove the car in the race.....

.....and here's the car at Britten's chicane during the afternoon race leading the 1961 Austin Healey 3000 of Mike Thorne.

This is the other Elva Courier I photographed, Tom Andrew's 1959 Elva Courier, also with a 1500cc engine, which was listed in the programme as being a reserve for the Equipe GTS race, but doesn't appear on the results sheet.