Three-quarters front view of a Blue, 1949, Allard L, on display in the Allard Owners Club Zone of the 2023 Silverstone Festival.
Allard Motor Company Limited was a London-based low-volume car manufacturer founded in 1945 by Sydney Allard in small premises in Clapham, south-west London. Car manufacture almost ceased within a decade. It produced approximately 1900 cars before it became insolvent and ceased trading in 1958.[citation needed] Before the war, Allard supplied some replicas of a Bugatti-tailed special of his own design from Adlards Motors in Putney. Allards featured large American V8 engines in a light British chassis and body, giving a high power-to-weight ratio and foreshadowing the Sunbeam Tiger and AC Cobra of the early 1960s. Cobra designer Carroll Shelby and Chevrolet Corvette chief engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov both drove Allards in the early L is a 4-seat roadster, produced from 1946 to 1950. It was on a 112-inch ( m) wheelbase and available with a choice of 3622 cc ( cu in) Ford V8 or 4375 cc ( cu in) Mercury engines. The top speed is estimated to be 85 mph (137 km/h). Priced at a little more than £1000, 191 were produced.
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Location: Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 8TN
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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