The following items are articles, books, web pages and more that have some content related to Elvas in general or the Elva Courier specifically.  Their are a couple of new books rumored to be in the works.  The official book about the Elva story is due out sometime, tentatively titled "The cars just happen - the Story of Frank Nichols & Elva Cars" is being co-written by Jeff Allison & Roger A. Dunbar.


Automobile Quarterly, Vol 35 No 4

Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalog 2 1960 Courier Nanumea 21 (pic at right)

Sports Car Graphic, July 1964, road test of Mk. 4

Sport & GT Market, November 1986, a brief history of the Courier

Classic & Sportcar, July 1983, history of the Elva Courier

Classic & Sportcar, Feb 1988, detailed comparison of Couriers

Classic & Sportcar, Sept 1992, Elva Courier in Mitsubishi Marathon

Classic & Sportcar, May 1986, Elva GT160

Classic & Sportcar, Feb 1987, Elva Mk7 track test

Car Graphic: Cooper, Lola, Elva, ISBN 4-544-04215-1, Japanese text the majority dedicated to Cooper but does include 18 illustrations of Elva cars

British Specialist Cars, by Chris Rees, Windrow & Green Automotive, ISBN 1-872004-22-9, a chapter devoted to the Elva Courier

British Sports Cars in America 1946-1981, Jonathan Stein, Elva along with other low production run cars are given their due in this book

Formula Junior Racing Cars Remembered, Bernard Cowdray, Rare British book, Elva had some success with this the original spec racer class

British Car,#37 June 1992, includes an Elva Mk7 track test

British Car,#72 April-May 1998, history of the Elva Courier with some nice pictures, both current and past. They have an upcoming profile of the Mk3 Coupe

Grassroots Motorsports, ???????, Profiles Elva Courier in vintage racing

The Complete Catalogue of British Cars, Covers a lot of automobiles from 1895-1975, so a single page and a couple of pictures for Elva is all we get

Specialist Sports Cars by Peter J Filby, 1974, ISBN 0-7153-6417-0, Reference of British cars includes about 5 pages of Elva Courier history/road car info

Victory Lane has a nice little history of Elva from their April 98 magazine

Road & Track, June, 1959, featured road test of an early Courier Mk1

Sports Cars Illustrated, October 1956, Review of the Mk1 racer

Sports Cars Illustrated, August 1958, Review of Courier Mk1

Auto Sport, Sept 1959, test of Courier and Mk IV at the races

Viva Las Vegas, the movie, 1964. Elvis Presely drives a Elva Mk6, and Ann Margret too!

Sports Cars at Sebring In Stereo...Riverside RLP-1144 Recorded in 1959. A phonograph record which includes many cars from the race. Elva race cars and the Courier are mentioned in the liner notes. Found at Burnin Rubber

Equinox, a quirky movie whose main character drives around in a Elva Courier Mk3

Elva Cars, published by Unique Motor Books, ISBN 1 84155 035 3, is a collection of magazine road test reprints, similar to the Brooklands series.

European Car Magazine had a nice article on the Courier in the October 1997 issue.

Sports Car International, March 2001, A brief history of Elva and some lovely photos of Mark Leonard's Mk7.

Autoweek, October 29, 2001, a brief mention of Jesse Prather's (ex John Kelly) E Production Mk II Courier competing in the 2001 SCCA runoffs.

Autoweek, Novemer 26, 2001, Cory Farley craves Elva Couriers..."What makes more sense than to buy an Elva Courier?"

Autoweek, August 7, 2006, Cory Farley still "Jones for an Elva" especially if it had a Mazda rotatry engine!