ELH 884T - Where is it now...?

[kev131]

I found the owner of this car in London through the Fiat Twin Cam register - I met him early on a cold Saturday morning and he took me for a fairly quick demonstration run around his local streets. A cool car with some complimentary modifications and wheels - I liked the non standard steering wheel and neat extra dials in the centre console. A nice guy as well - Very enthusiastic about his car.

[Gremlino]

Ah a familiar sorry tale associated with ELH 884T.

This was my old mate Neil Crandons car and originally it was very clean.
The problems started after he'd owned it for a couple of years and used it daily, the MOT man said uh-urrrr to some mediocre rust on the front floor/lower bulkhead.
Neil took the car to a 'specialist' welder/body repairer and had the holes welded over (the welder said he'd cut the rust out  ).

The next year the MOT man said the rust was back and worse than before, so Neil took the car back to the same 'welder'.
This went on for about 4 years and each time they just slapped another bit of metal over the previous years crust.

Eventually I became involved when he lost his parking space and we ended up using the same garaging, this was ok up to...........yes you guessed..........the MOT.
By this time there was no original sound metal left to weld to and the structural integrity had been lost through countless weld-ups, the car flexed quite a bit but still looked good on top.
The decision was made to break it in our mate Pearcey's garden in 1997.
Upon breaking it was found to be much worse than we had thought, in many places it was just underseal holding things in place.

Not all bad news though, the sweet Revolution wheels are the very same ones on my Volumetrico, the body panels were sold on , the steering wheel went to Ireland,Frank Church bought the gearbox/ running gear and I still have some pieces of trim in the garage.

I think Neil still has the interior and some structural parts in storage somewhere, I'll check if anyones interested.