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.

Morgan Aero 8 GT

This car took part in the Aston Martin GT Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2017.

It's Tom Andrew's 1999 Morgan Aero 8 GT which the programme of the event says has a 4,600cc engine, although the Aero 8 originally had a 4,400cc BMW V8 engine and changed to a 4.799cc V8 BMW unit in 2007.

Here's the car approaching Old Hall Corner during the morning qualifying session

These photographs show the Morgan above at Druids Corner, and below at Clay Hill during the race.