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H&H Classic Auction @Pavilion Gardens | Buxton, Derbyshire
29th November, 2023 13:00
1951 Allard P1
No Reserve
Registration No: Un-Registered (Formerly ?DMS 169?)
Chassis No: 72411981
MOT: Exempt
1 of just 44 known survivors (from a production run of only 559)
Current ownership since 2009
Supplied with the ?buff? logbook
Requiring full restoration but is believed to be mostly complete
Driving a 1951 Allard P1, Allard Managing Director Sydney Allard, co-driver Guy Warburton and navigator Tom Lush won the January 1952 Monte Carlo Rally, a spectacular success in what was described in contemporary accounts as "impossible winter conditions." This famous win was just the highpoint of many Allard P1 competition successes in post-war international rallies, including the Lisbon Rally, Alpine Trial, Rally Soleil Cannes and Monte Carlo Rally. In production from 1949 through 1952, the five-passenger P1 was advertised as "The family saloon with sports car manners." The lightweight body is hand-formed aluminium over a framework carved from ash wood, supplied by Abbotts of Farnham. With 559 examples built, the P1 was the best-selling Allard model, yet only a mere 44 are known to survive.
Manufactured in 1951, the same year as the Monte Carlo Rally winning example, the Allard offered has the 3622cc 85hp Ford V8 engine and three-speed manual transmission. Understood to have originally been finished in Red, the Allard was changed to Grey around twenty years into its life. Formerly a resident of a significant private collection, the vendor purchased the Allard from the collection with a view to restoring the P1. However, other projects took precedence and the restoration never materialised. Always dry stored in current and previous ownerships, the Allard is offered for sale requiring full restoration but believed to be mostly complete, with the complete engine accompanying, but is removed from the car and dismantled. A very worthy restoration project with the P1's low survivor numbers and motor racing history, the Allard is offered with a VE60 ?buff? logbook.
