Elfin Sports Cars

Elfin MS8 Clubman

Elfin MS8 Streamliner

Elfin Sports Cars was an Australian sports car manufacturer.

description

The company was founded in 1959 by Garrie Cooper, a successful championship driver. In 1998 Elfin was bought by businessmen Bill Hemming and Nick Kovatch. Based in Clayton in the state of Victoria .

Elfin Sports Cars has won 29 championships and major titles including two Australian Drivers Championships, five Australian Sports Car Championships, four Australian Tourist Trophy and three Formula Ford titles, the Singapore Grand Prix (1968) and twice the Malaysian Grand Prix (1968 and 1969).

The company stopped production in 2012. The company was later dissolved.

Products

Car production at the end of 2006 included two models: MS8 Clubman and MS8 Streamliner.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Elfin (I).
• George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 490 (English).

Web links

Commons : Elfin Sports Cars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The company's website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Whatever happened to Elfin? .