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Restoration

I Think I Have One of Those in Stock!

I Think I Have One of Those in Stock!

So, I was in the final stage of assembly and testing of the Detroit car. Also known as Elan restoration #12. I had taken multiple rides through the neighborhood forest preserve. Everything was working as it should. Most things worked

Bob Herzog August 24, 2022April 29, 2024 Uncategorized Read more

Let There Be Lights, Please!

So things are moving along pretty well on my latest Elan restoration, which I refer to as the Detroit car or Elan restoration #12. Dash is all wired up. Rubber carpet installed. Interior side panels done. So I went and

Bob Herzog June 6, 2022April 29, 2024 Uncategorized Read more

Some Trouble With An Engine Build

Some Trouble With An Engine Build

There’s something to be said about a “Crate” motor. You see them being used on car and motorcycle shows shown on cable TV all the time. They eliminate a lot of the potential pitfalls in doing a car restoration or

Bob Herzog December 17, 2020April 29, 2024 Uncategorized Read more

Reuniting the Europa Body and Drive Train

Reuniting the Europa Body and Drive Train

The next and hopefully final stage of my Europa revival moves the car to Northshore Sportscars where Norb, Keith, Rich and Michelle took custody. Prior to sending the car, my friend Ron and I lifted the body shell off the

Richard Barenholtz October 26, 2020April 29, 2024 Uncategorized Read more

No More Project Elans… Maybe

No More Project Elans… Maybe

So my cell phone went “Ding” one day, telling me that someone sent me a Facebook text. Usually that is my brother, sending me a picture of some fabulous meal he is having in Barcelona or maybe a picture of

Bob Herzog September 22, 2020April 29, 2024 Uncategorized Read more

Trouble Shooting The Seattle Elan

Trouble Shooting The Seattle Elan

I graduated from DeVry with an Associates Degree in Electronics in late December of 1973. After taking a quick one week drive out to California and back with my buddies, I started work at the Illinois Bell Telephone company on

Bob Herzog July 23, 2020April 29, 2024 Uncategorized Read more

Engine Dyno

Engine Dyno

By Rick Barenholtz On July 5th 2019, I dropped off my Twin Cam engine parts to Barry Sales at PHP Racengines. I say engine parts because the engine was disassembled nearly 30 years ago. So was the 1973 Twin Cam

Richard Barenholtz June 23, 2020April 29, 2024 Uncategorized Read more

Time to let one go

Time to let one go

In the Fall of 2018 I was facing a small problem – Too many Elan projects. At least too many for the amount of storage I had. I was just finishing up the second restoration of my own S1 Elan.

Bob Herzog June 23, 2020April 29, 2024 Uncategorized Read more

Not Another Elan Project? (Part 2)

Not Another Elan Project? (Part 2)

A week later back in Des Plaines the POD arrived and I thought I had given myself a couple days to unload the car. But upon further review the POD was supposed to be emptied, cleaned and ready for pick

Bob Herzog May 18, 2020April 29, 2024 Uncategorized Read more

Not Another Elan Project?

Not Another Elan Project?

Surely you must be joking! I’m not joking. And don’t call me Shirley. Ah, the line that launched the second career of the up till then, a very serious and handsome actor named Leslie Nielsen. What has that got to

Bob Herzog April 27, 2020April 29, 2024 Uncategorized Read more
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