Description
Imperial War Museum | Duxford, Cambridgeshire
9th Apr, 2025 9:00
1953 Allard Palm Beach MkI
1 of just 80 Allard Palm Beach manufactured
Estimate
£40, 000 - £50, 000
Registration No: 4655 H
Chassis No: 21Z5080
MOT: Exempt
Believed to be one of some 18 home market and c. 80 examples built
Original and interesting registration number
Sympathetically upgraded, restored and improved by its second owner (out of four) in c. 1990
Ownership connection to the silver screen’s Norman Wisdom and TV's 'The Saint'
Racing driver Sydney Allard's post-war cars combined the same virtues of lightweight, independent front suspension and an abundance of American V8 power, which had been features of his first trials special of the mid-1930s. These favourable characteristics enabled Allard cars to establish a formidable competition record in the immediate post-war years; Allard himself finishing 3rd at Le Mans in a J2 two-seater and winning the Monte Carlo Rally outright in a P2 saloon. Introduced in 1952, the pretty, alloy-bodied Palm Beach was Sydney Allard's final sports car design, employing a K3-type tubular chassis and his trademark independently suspended swing axles at the front with a coil-sprung live axle at the rear. Of all -aluminium construction and a choice of engines it proved top be very desirable indeed of the c. 80 MkI’s built 58 were ordered by global customers as far afield as the USA, New Zealand, Sweden, Madagascar and Mexico. Of the 18 ‘home market’ cars, it is thought only a few survive today. Approximately 80 of all types were built up to 1958.
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