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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
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