Driving the Elva Courier for the First Time

[@johndavey72]

You certainly landed on your feet with this little beauty Steve . ......what a find ! 😊

[@julianwinn4502]

Great to see the Elva on the move again!

[@seanwalsh999]

Thanks for explanation of the fuel system on that older vehicle. Thanks for posting.

[@Al-os2cg]

The size of the Elva against the cars and trucks, in the car park, as you drove out of your storage unit made me smile.

[@greavous93]

Back in high school I had a 1965 Ford Econoline pickup that was nearly mint. What an outstanding vehicle it turned out to be. That Elva is a good looking car.

[@willgrime]

Great to see some older American cars with a useful commentary. They certainly have some style, but are largely unknown here in Europe, so good to learn what they are and how you guys feels about them. Fairlanes and Galaxies I recognise from British saloon car racing in the sixties, and I can spot the back of a Chevy Impala with those amazing light clusters from miles away, but would love more of your vids from local US car meets with your fascinating commentary…

[@paulhall170]

The old MG engines always sounded nice, doubly so with a race exhaust system. Lovely to see another of the old English small-capacity sports cars back on the road and undoubtedly turning heads..

[@BoonesMountain]

Car sounds great Steve! More videos on it please! Great show as well, I enjoy the tours you take us on!

[@stephenricketts7764]

That quick clean made a real difference to the car. The Elva seemed to behave itself on the trip to the meet so the mice have thankfully not done too much damage to the wiring and so on. Yes some great cars there for the meet, I loved the old Chevvy so good to see it in it's original state. You mentioned the 'Fox bodies' being hard to find now. My understanding is they were more prone to rust than some cars of the same era, correct me if I am wrong but I can say that I have rarely seen one here in the UK if at all. Thanks for taking us along to the Cars and Coffee meet Steve. 👍👍

[@ThisWeekWithCars]

I don't think it was the rust that took them out, like Miatas are popular road race cars, the Fox body Mustangs were popular drag race cars and many of them were wrecked or ruined racing by now.

[@Simon-ry1lw]

Beautiful Mid West sunshine, some very cool cars, love that sixties muscle

[@peteredwards7760]

Those Autumn colours are vibrant in the sunlight. Great car by the way. It's always interesting to see your latest project.

[@TR4zest]

Plenty would love to own that Elva. Great find. She has found a good home.

[@johnparsons5793]

Sounds great.

[@fepatton]

I suspect you _always_ show up with the most interesting car at these events. 😂

[@Jmp5nb]

Beautiful set of vintage wheels!

[@ralphdeex6671]

Sounded amazing

[@jonswinfield9336]

Definitely want more videos like this 👍🏻

[@kerryjackson5729]

I really like the Elva.

[@demej00]

I want to hear more of that fine exhaust.

[@bobmanzi7712]

Great stuff thanks

[@jimringo2569]

Neat cars there.

[@jlwilliams]

Would have loved to be able to hear what people had to say about the Elva!

[@davidnelson6893]

Yes that. was cool Peace out

[@k.kristianjonsson1537]

Once again: What a nice car. Very unfair that I don't have it!!!!!!!

[@kimbarron]

Steve, the Elva looks like it will be a fun car. Quite the find! Was the Cars and Coffee at the Ford dealer yesterday (Sunday)? I was at Lowes on Saturday and I did not see anything going on.

[@stephensim5839]

How did it go?

[@KerinCrowe]

I think that the ELVA enjoyed its outing - it sounds happier and happier. It obviously is accustomed to being used. Hope the mouse smells have abated

[@ThisWeekWithCars]

Two big mice nests came out to the exhaust, but since the only interior is the drivers seat this one doesn't smell too bad.

[@thomasmiller1650]

No license plate on the Elva?

[@timlorlor6888]

Ace

[@shockingguy]

That was fun yes and your little toy car is so cute ha ha ha ha watching it pull out of the parking lot and being dwarfed by all these other vehicles was a good perspective

[@kawazukisoddbits2717]

Don't know how you guys do it - a Race car on the street, with race exhaust and no plates - the LEO's in the UK would have a field day with you, if here!

[@421CentralIowa]

It's one of the perks of living in Iowa. I've pulled motorcycle frames off of a trash pile and have been able to restore them with non-matching engines and get a bonded title and get them back on the road somewhat easily. It's gotten more annoying needing to have a notarized bill of sale when registering vehicles but still doable. You do need license plates and an up to date registration here, but I've run vintage plates on multiple vehicles (incorrectly) and the police don't care if you're obviously just out enjoying an old vehicle and you have the real ones with you. You also have to have active liability insurance. But you can pretty much cobble together steel fence posts, wheels, and an engine and get it titled in this state if you know the right people to stamp your paperwork. We don't have any emissions inspections.

[@mundanestuff]

Even in the People's Republic of New Yorkistan we have pretty easy rules with respect to antique cars. They don't have emissions to pass, they don't have many restrictions, but they do have to have a basic safety inspection once a year, liability insurance or better, and you have to pinky-swear to not have modified exhaust. You don't need much of anything to register one just physical possession if the car is old enough. My 77 Midget was old enough to get away with no prior title or registration, I just needed a photo of the VIN plate, and I'm sure my Sprites are the same way when I finally get them registered (one of my Sprites came with a transferable NY registration, so that was a non-issue)

[@mundanestuff]

Oh, for license plates here, they technically have to be issued by the state, but you can use old antique plates if they were issued the year of the vehicle, and if you register them as vanity plates. For example, my NY plate on my 1960 Sprite is "MOWOG", and if I really wanted to, I could get a fake 1960 license plate reading MOWOG and get away with running it right now. The police would see it as a 1960 plate, read MOWOG, run it and it would come back to my vehicle. I doubt even the state police are going to check to see if the license plate was made in 1960 in New York. So long as it looks like it was, we get away with it.

[@gregperigo937]

Any Elva Courier Mark 3 owners out there with a set of front and rear bumpers that I can pull a mold off of? Please leave a reply.

[@robertcallahan4065]

audio goes in and out...........

[@donparker1823]

Just wondering if your car has a high lift cam. It sounded terrible in the parking lot but pretty good on the road.

[@insAneTunA]

Out of protest of what happened with the American election I am blocking all American content creators that appear in my recommended video list. For now I am done with the American society.