" Only a few men have designed, built, and then put into production, cars bearing their own name.

Even fewer, if any, have gone on to build their own racing cars and compete in them, with such great achievements in such a wide range of motor sport competitions.

From mud-plugging trials to hill climb champion, Monte Carlo winner, and Le Mans 24 hours third overall, to building and driving the first dragster outside the USA.

Sydney Allard was that rare and outstanding personality...

" 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, a...