Racing driver Sydney Allard's post-war cars combined the same virtues of light weight, 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.

Four- and six-cylinder engines were sourced from Ford, while the restyled 1956-onwards MkII could be had with Jaguar XK power.

Approximately 80 of all types were built up to 1958.

The left-hand drive example offered here - chassis number '21D-5151' - is the only Palm Beach s...