It was at the Mallala circuit back in 1966 that Mark Goldsmith first saw the Globe Products Elfin 400 Cobra. It was only the car’s second race appearance, but the sight and sound of the shiny new metallic aqua-blue Ford V8-powered sports car that day left a lasting impression on Goldsmith, then just 14 years old.
In his later teens he got into motorsport competition himself, in rallying (in a Datsun 1600 – but before he got his own car he ‘stole’ his mum’s Datsun and entered rallies in that!), and then in a Lotus Europa and Twin-Cam Escort hill climbing and in tarmac rallies, events like Targa Tasmania and Classic Adelaide.
Later in life he switched to historic racing, with a mid-‘70s Elfin 622 Formula 2 openwheeler – a car he would take overseas to New Zealand and a two-summer race season campaign in the UK and Europe.
It was at one of the Classic Adelaide events that Goldsmith got inspired to have a
