Unique bodied Allard M Type with a fascinating history.

Sydney Allard was a successful trials and hill climb driver before the war, to such an extent that people actually ordered vehicles based on his winning car.

After the war he set up the Allard Motor Company and commenced motor manufacturing.

In all he made approximately 1,910 cars, but candidly admitted that he became a manufacturer to subsidise his competition activities, which included trials, hill climbing and winning the Monte Carlo Rally in 1952.In production of the M and L Type, Allard used a substantial box section chassis with a large amount of proprietary Ford components to enable spares and service parts to be readily available wherever the car was sent in the world.

The bodywork was a mixture of aluminium and steel components.

The UK cars were mainly fitted with the Ford V8 flathead engine of 3622cc and a modest but very torquey 85hp engine.

There were many power enhancement options available, but mostly to overse...