Avanti Evante!
In the February edition you did a very good write-up of what was my Evante, JIG 7317. My wife loved the Evante and we did quite a few classic rallies over the time we had the car – it never let us down and always attracted attention.
It had to go because I am trying to complete the restoration of our Lotus Elan +2 and now need the space to get the chassis down from the roof of the garage.
It needs restoration because we had an engine fire – the old problem of having the distributor under the carbs and an O-ring blowing, squirting petrol on to it. The fire extinguisher worked and I was just breathing a sigh of relief when it went up again, this time with the extinguisher empty.
I wasn’t going to rebuild the car but it is unique – the top comes off to reveal a Stag-type T-bar.
Paul Richardson
Guildford, Surrey