• Iconic British make • One of 151 K1s produced • Extensively restored • Photographic record available After WW2, Sydney Allard progressed from specials-builder to motor manufacturer, though the latter activity was really little more than a means of financing the company's competition programme.

Despite its small size and limited resources, Allard's achievements were legion, Sydney himself finishing 3rd at Le Mans in a J2 sports-racer and winning the Monte Carlo Rally outright in a P-Type saloon.

Introduced in 1946, the competition-orientated J1 two-seater employed a 100" wheelbase chassis featuring Allard's trademark independently-suspended 'split' front axle and a De Dion rear end with inboard brakes.

Like the vast majority of production Allards, the J1 used Ford/Mercury V8 components, these being readily obtainable from Ford in the UK.

The K1 tourer was broadly similar apart from its longer wheelbase.

Described by the vendor as in very good condition throughout, this K1 was res...