British car manufacturer Allard Sports Cars completes restoration of original Palm Beach Mk2
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13 November 2013
The ultimate original restoration is on display at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show on 15-17 November: Allard Sports Cars Ltd, owned by the original Allard family, has completed a full nuts-and-bolts restoration of a very rare (one of only six ever made) prototype 1956 Palm Beach MkII.
With very few British car manufacturers still operating under the original name, this Palm Beach is especially notable for having been restored to its former glory by the same family business and name which launched it as a new car in 1956.
The Palm Beach Mk2 was found in poor condition just a year ago, and has been painstakingly restored by Alan and Lloyd Allard’s team over the last ten months. Carrying chassis number 72/7000Z, it is one of only six ever made, and its restoration has taken over 1,200 hours excluding the body’s preparation and paint; the original chassis houses a fully-rebuilt Ford Zodiac six cylinder in-line engine and gearbox, whilst the aluminium body panels are painted in period carmine red inspired by the 1961-64 Jaguar E-type colour range.
The car takes pride of place on the Allard Owners’ Club stand at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, NEC Birmingham, together with an original Cadillac 331 engine (used in the Allard JR model) and a range of bespoke Allard Aluminium products.
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For further information and high-res photos contact:
AV PR Lloyd Allard
The Studio Allard Sports Cars
194a Upper Richmond Road West, Stanley Court
London, SW14 8AN Edison Close
tel. 00 44 (0) 203 632 5924 Gloucester
Mob. 00 44 (0) 7415 095 543 tel. 00 44 (0) 1452 725666
Email: angie@angievoluti.com Email: info@allardsportscars.co.uk
Website: www.angievoluti.com Website: www.allardsportscars.co.uk
Note to Editors: the Allard Motor Company ceased manufacturing vehicles in 1958 but its motorsport activities (rallying, racing and drag-racing) continued; Sydney Allard’s son, Alan, took over in 1963 and business, selling components and accessories, is still on-going. Lloyd Allard, Alan’s son, took over from his father in 2008 and a new Allard Sports Cars Company was founded in 2011. The team retains key people from the original Allard company and the business has always stayed wholly under the Allard family. Fewer than 2,000 Allard sportscars were built from 1946 to 1958 and their value as classic cars (especially if with a racing pedigree) has been steadily increasing over the last few years. The 1953 ex-Le Mans, ex-Zora Arkus-Duntov No. 5 JR was sold in January this year for $605,000 by RM Auctions.
Allard Palm Beach Mk2 specs
Original date of manufacture: 15.10.1956
Registration number: 545 EXR Chassis number 72/7000Z
Chassis frame - Twin tube side members, braced with flitch plates and with both tubular and box cross members.
Engine - Fully rebuilt Ford Zodiac six cylinders in-line. Capacity 2553 cc. Carburation by triple SU with six branch fabricated exhaust. Gearbox - Ford four-speed.
Body - All aluminium with steel/aluminium inner panels. Two doors, two-seater.
Trim - Cream and red leather, with black carpeting edged in red leather.
Suspension and axles - telescopic shock absorbers with all-round coil springs, twin trailing arms and Panhard rod at the rear; forward-mounted radius rods at the front. Divided front axle, Salisbury solid axle at the rear.
Steering – Right-hand drive with Marles high-ratio steering box.
Brakes - Lockhead with 12" x 2 1/4" drums front and rear.
Fuel system - Twin tank arrangement with the tanks mounted each side within the rear wing.
Wheels - wire type, mounted on splined hub with centre lock spinner.
Dimensions - wheelbase 8' - track 4'3" - width 5'3" - overall length 12'6"
Allard Palm Beach Mk2, outside Allard's workshops
Angie Voluti
AV PR
The Studio
194a Upper Richmond Road West,
London
SW14 8AN
tel. 00 44 (0) 203 632 5924
Mob. 00 44 (0) 7415 095 543
Email: angie@angievoluti.com
Website: www.angievoluti.com
