1967 Lotus Elan

I took this photograph at the Northern Classic Car Show at the G-Mex Centre, Manchester in August 1991.

It's a 1967 Lotus Elan and was on the stand of 'Cars of Character', but the brochure of the event gives no information about the car, nor about 'Cars of Character'. The Lotus Elan was introduced in 1962 with a 4-cylinder inline Lotus Twin-Cam engine based on the 1,498cc Ford Kent engine, but after only 22 cars were built the engine size was increased to 1,558cc and the car redesignated the Lotus Elan 1600. At this Northern Classic Car Show the fibreglass body is raised up to show the steel backbone chassis which was likened to a double ended tuning fork.