Formula Junior Elhoo

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This car was built by the late Pentti Loivaranta, who had built some F3 500 Elhoo (Loivaranta-Havana) cars, he did also one Formula Junior. This has been inspired by Lotus 20 and 22 (for the rear suspension).
The brakes are from Fiat 1100, the engine is Ford 109e (Anglia) an dthe gearbox is from a BMW 700.

Here are some pictures.


Early sixties. The white car on the left is the Elhoo.

Stripping the engine

We needed to build a jig for fixing the frame

Out in the open for the first time in at least 25 years. That time was spent inside this lorry at the scrap yard


Looking for this style VDO instruments. Let us know, if you have white or black background oil or water temperature mechanical gauges.



Working on the frame