Jack,
I have never heard of a kit car body made from or to resemble the Type 14
Elite. In its original form the Elite was a glass fibre reinforced
plastic monocoque and had no metal framework. Someone may have cut the
body section off for the project You can buy a complete body / monocoque
unit today in fiberglass or , I believe in carbon fibre if the funds are
available but that has all come about fairly recently.
There was a car that was about the size of the Elite that was a body to
be fitted to a frame. Some were actually built on a purpose built tube
frame. That was the Heron Europa. I don't think most would mistake it for
an Elite though.
Sounds like it might be an interesting project. It could certainly be
made light.
Special wishes,
Bill
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:20:13 +0000 "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
writes:
> I was told about a Triumph Special that had resided in a garage about
> a
> half hour from my house since 1977. I was told that the owner had
> too
> many projects and he might want to sell it. Expecting and hoping to
> see
> a weird and wonderful rare TR, my son Tony and I went to look at it
> Sunday afternoon.
>
> It was weird, all right, but not too wonderful, and it aroused my
> curiosity.
>
> The "car" was an early TR chassis and drivetrain, apparently
> completely
> stock. A fiberglass body had been set on it. Nothing had been done
> to
> finish the interior. No floorboards other than plywood, and no inner
> rear fender wells. The front fender wells and firewall were the TR4
> parts, crudely torched off.
>
> Why am I bothering all of you with this? Well, the body was a source
> of
> great curiosity to me. It was a direct knockoff of a Lotus Elite --
> the
> coupe, of course. It looked like it had been lifted directly from
> the
> Lotus.
>
> I thought I'd seen or heard of all the kit car bodies that had been
> stuck on TR chassis -- but obviously not. Has anyone heard of a
> Lotus
> Elite look-alike kit car body being available, or was this a
> one-off?
>
> By the way, the owner said he is going to "spend a couple of months
> and
> get 'er runin' and then driver 'er up and down the gravel roads and
> then
> use it for landfill rather than sell it for what I
> offered............
>
> --
>
> uncle jack - red, white, and New Blue
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