Spotted - North America!

[tigerdog]

This will make for a short but fun thread. I'll start it off:

Yellow Elan, westbound Del Mar Heights Rd at Carmel Canyon, San Diego. My son spotted this is a garage about .5 mile from my house some time back. If you read the list, please PM. We're neighbors!

[tigerdog]

Red Fed Elan - nice shape, driven by a gentleman named (maybe?) Greg. We were both distracted and off in different directions quickly, so we didn't get a chance to chat. Still, two Elans in the same place at the same time in the US without prior planning. What are the odds? I followed him into the car park - a mini caravan!

[Doug]

I saw three Elans within spitting distance yesterday:
Ekapol's 2 Elans and Jack's new smoky-flavoured Elan

[tigerdog]

I saw three Elans within spitting distance yesterday: Ekapol's 2 Elans and Jack's new smoky-flavoured Elan

I just read the story - just the kind of thing that makes LEC such a fun place to be. I'm jealous I couldn't join you.

[TheBard]

Can I spot my own Elan? It is the only one I've ever seen on the East Coast!

[tigerdog]

Spotted: San Diego I-5 southbound at Genessee, 2010-07-15 16:40. SILK RED Elan . As far as I know, Silk Red wasn't available on Fed cars. Wasn't it introduced on S2s? But this was definitely Silk Red and by the rear wing configuration, definitely a Fed car. So now in San Diego, we have Calypso Red, White, BRG, Black and Silk Red!

If this is your car, please PM me - I would love to get our cars together in La Jolla or someplace similar for a photo.

[rip]

If this is your car, please PM me - I would love to get our cars together in La Jolla or someplace similar for a photo.

An Elan meet in the US really would be something....

[tigerdog]

There's getting to be enough in San Diego to make a meet possible, if I can just contact everyone. Now, who has this Silk Red???

[lotos]

Denver is right in the middle of the country. And we've just built these big mountains perfect for Elan photographing...

[tigerdog]

If you'd kept the yellow one in San Diego, you could come, too. But NOOOOooooo...
Now if we can just find someone to buy the Pac Blue in Utah, San Diego can corner the market on exotic-coloured Elans in the USA. But I'm getting

[Dave Eds]

Cross posting from TLF member Trevor on Boxing Day

Norfolk Mustard in Half Moon Bay

"Went to Poplar Beach this morning to walk the dogs. Then went to a surf shop towards the harbor. As we were at the lights where the 92 joins the 1. It was heading south on the 1 and turned on the 92 to head towards San Mateo. It was probably around 12:30 or 1 o'clock".

[tigerdog]

Sweet! Is this anyone we know?

[Dave Eds]

He's been seen again Doug!



"While I was driving on the 92 from San Mateo heading towards Half Moon Bay this morning at 9:30. It was heading east. Anyone on here?"

[tigerdog]

My son spotted the Silk Red exiting I-805N to head east on Mira Mesa Blvd at about 2PM yesterday. Grrr! I want to see this car!

[Specky]

Is this silk red your nemesis!

TTFN

[steve matthews]

Red, he said RED.

[tigerdog]

Is this silk red your nemesis

Yes it is - the mythical questing beast I'll chase until the end of my days, so it seems.

Red, he said RED.

No, I said Silk Red. Very different color and one that was supposedly never imported to the US, at least according to the numbers floating around the interwebz. That's why it is so mythical!

[GeoffSmith]

as opposed to Steve.

[tigerdog]

Spotted the mythical San Diego Silk Red - this time in a Costco parking lot! Snapped this photo and by the time I got through the gas line, it was gone. Of course, wife had phone off and son left phone in car, so I couldn't get someone to watch until the owner came out or I came back. Also, in my dear wife's car, no little notebook in the glovebox so nothing with which to leave a note. It's clear from the photos this is a North American car and not the Arizona hot-weather test mule. Note the missing antenna on the left side - AZ car's was on the right - plus Fed body panels. So the mystery continues but at least I have photographic proof the car exists!

NorthAmericanSilkRed.jpg

[DeanG]

Somebody run those plates.