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In 1986 my father in law bought an Allard P1 – EBA 666.
Sadly soon after some hooligans decided to fill the boot with newspaper and set fire to it, so the whole rear end of the car was destroyed.
In August 2020 he decided that it was time for the Allard to move on to a new home (me).
Can we have some current pictures please Ben
A couple of old pictures of the interior. I’ll upload loads more of progress very soon! I want to keep the timeline accurate so you can see progress from the start to the finish.
Realising that a 5 inch windscreen / chopped roof and a 6 foot driver weren’t compatible I set about raising the roof.
The plywood “windscreen” is made from an original P1 screen
I very quickly realised however that it needed a little more er… attention, in other areas so removed the roof entirely.
Most of the rest of the body work soon followed!
…and then more was dismantled!!
At this stage I thought I could get away with treating / painting the chassis as it was, wire brushing and painting etc.
The 3rd picture here is where I’d kind of “done” the back end and was looking at how to fit the doors back on. Oh the innocence of those early days!!
I then realised it wasn’t quite so simple, because the B pillars, to which the door hinges were mounted, were set further inwards than a standard P type, which meant the rails on which the doors would now sit were in the wrong place and the doors wouldn’t fit. Also the doors that came with the car had been adjusted, and swapping them out for original doors to give me the correct top profile meant they didn’t fit.
The ones that came with the car didn’t have insides / winding windows either which I definitely wanted
At this point I decided to go the whole hog, whip the engine out and just strip everything back to get the chassis sand blasted. In for a pound n all that! Fully committed now.
Next the engine and gearbox.
Having painted the chassis a slightly more appealing colour off it went to Jim Turnbull at Royal Kustoms for some modifications to take a Tremec T5 g speed gearbox and rebuilt flathead.
This would involve removing the torque tube and subsequent strengthening of the chassis to take the new mount for gearbox and rear radius arms.
I also set up the brakes at the same time, and Jim’s welders (I was still very much learning to weld at this time) put in a sturdy structural upright for the seatbelt mounts.
Here is the car as it came back, you can see the seatbelt mounts, some rear inner mudguards (which I later needed to modify quite significantly) and a spare engine block in the front so I could continue with bodywork while Jim was finishing my engine. I needed everything to be roughly level hence wanting the weight in the front.
This last picture was taken during the MOT, a handy opportunity to see the underneath whilst on a ramp.
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