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Prototype Elfin 300
The initial Sports racing 300 was originally ordered by Carl Haas in 1965 for SCCA Sports Modified Racing in the States. Single seaters took priority at the Elfin factory, so, by the time the car was completed, testedat Mallala and shipped to the New York, the contract had been passed to Chuck Kreuger, his home track was Watkins Glen -it was raced sparingly there and at Cumberland in SCCA National events before an extended period of storage in Upstate New York.
The prototype passed into the hands of Graham Allen in the UK in 2007, receiving a thorough restoration, all the while, in Graham's words "retaining the remarkable originality of the car" - with only modifications being concessions to FIA safety requirements such as the rather demure original roll bar making way for a more substantion hoop. Even the original aluminium hand beaten body courtesy of John Webb that was used to create the mold for the following cars has been returned to it's brilliant best. Graham ran the car at Brands Hatch and is now in the process of shipping it back to Australia, where Ron Lambert, a member of the Elfin Build Team in 66/7 is looking forward to reacquanting himself with SS67-4.
Photo attached of car looking as fresh as a daisy a few months ago.
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