Lister Storm - Chassis No 6 - Project to finish....PLEASE READ the advert..LHD Car - DEPOSIT TAKEN

DEPOSIT NOW TAKEN.

Lister Storm V12 7.0 Twin Supercharged. Chassis SA9STRM2BSP0530006.

LHD Car.

This is ‘Chassis number 6’ and has never been registered and does require a degree of finishing to make it road worthy.

Although this is chassis 6, there were 8 cars built, 2 were converted to race cars, and two were exported. This leaves 4 road cars including the one you see for sale here that are possibly still in the UK.

The chassis number history is as follows:

The Prototype - number 992A

001 - Ex-Malcom Detchon - Green car sold at Historics in mid-2018

002 - Exported to Brunei

003 - Exported to Brazil

004 - UK - Dark blue that went to the northeast of England when new

005 - UK - Converted to race car

006 - The car as advertised here....

008 - UK - Yellow sold to London owner and converted to race car

This information is from the old records for production, and I have no idea why there isn't a chassis no7.  But if I find out any new information as this advert goes live, I'll be happy to update.

I am advertising and organizing the sale of this car for the current owner.

History of the car:

Purchased in 2008 essentially because he needed an engine for one of his other Listers, G612 XPL a 7.0 Lister Le Mans. This was one of two Le Mans models that he was undertaking a restoration on at the time. The engine in the Storm was in fact the original engine from G612 XPL, so they were re-united.

Note: If you go to the Shmoo Automotive website and look at the last page of the ‘For Sale’ section, you will see the two finished Le Mans cars, one of which is the black car I sold back in 2020.

He then acquired from Lynx Engineering a Lister 7-litre twin-supercharged engine that had been built for a customer’s Jaguar E-Type V12 to dry sump spec for track days. The customer decided after a couple of outings that he wanted a full race engine and Lynx built one for him. My client had this engine rebuilt by Rob Beere to the correct wet sump spec and Rob confirmed that it exhibited very little sign of use. This is the engine now fitted to the Storm.

When he acquired the Storm in 2008, it was incomplete due to being a cancelled order. This has been confirmed recently in correspondence by Fiona Pearce, wife of Laurence Pearce who owned Lister up until 2013. As you’ll see on my Shmoo Automotive website, there is a section showing the car at various points in the past and as purchased by my client. You’ll also see photos of the first build that is mentioned below.

A summary of what’s been done, and what remains to be done to get the car on the road:

In 2010/11 with some time available while the Le Mans bodykit moulds and bodykits were being produced, the owner spent just over a year doing the first build of the Storm. There were wiring looms but without any connectors or terminations so this was corrected. There were lots of missing parts such as lights, suspension, wheels and so on so which were acquired. He got most of the electrics working, although the alarm and central locking doesn't work reliably, he thinks the aftermarket motors are too weak or the linkages too tight. He had all the brackets for the supercharger installations made by a local engineering company. He had all the carpets remade as some were missing and had special hides made by Connolly to match the existing blue and parchment so he could complete the missing trim.

Most of the carbon fibre parts are present except a couple of wheel-arch liners which will need manufacturing. Also, the circuit board to make the headlamps go up and down is missing, the system uses BMW 8 series motors allied to a circuit board that Lister had made up specially.

There is an issue with the rear suspension which is mostly BMW 8 Series with a couple of specially fabricated arms. Two of these arms are in place but with insufficient thread to be safe so they will need modifying and modification is required to centralise the wheels in the arches. Not complex work, but outstanding currently.

The exhaust system will need to be fabricated, the car does have a variety of exhaust manifolds and two tailpipe sections, but the pipes in between would require fabrication and the radiators and swirl pot are mild steel blanks fabricated just to get the sizes and outlets. They need to be given to a radiator manufacturer to get functioning items made. Salmon Diavia AC Ecu is missing and there is no heater valve fitted. The fuel tank is a bag tank installed on factory-build and should be replaced with aluminium to avoid the need to change it every couple of years. Bag tanks are ok for race cars but not great for road cars. The car is supplied with twin Bosch Racing 5 Bar fuel pumps which are too powerful for the fuel regulator, so these would need to be replaced with standard Jaguar pumps.

There are several boxes of spares including some spare carbon fibre mouldings – Lister gave him everything they had left on the shelf for the road cars when they closed their unit.

There is a spreadsheet with the car that details all the work undertaken which amounts to over £35,000 in parts alone. It does not account for the many years taken to bring the car to its current position.  You will see various photos of the work being carried out by my client in the ‘First Build’ section within the advert for the car on my website.

Terms of sale:

The car is sold strictly as seen and the buyer must make their own judgement without recourse on the safety and quality of the work completed by my client. The suggestion from the current owner is that the buyer should get familiar with the car as built, identify all the outstanding issues, and then strip and rebuild the car as required resolving these to their satisfaction. The major mechanicals of the engine, gearbox and differential should all be fine, and all ancillary parts are brand new.

It comes with three lever arch folders of drawings for components accompanied by notes, some of which may relate to the race cars.  Many hours were spent getting familiar with them all before starting on the first build.

My Opinion:

I'm not a Lister Storm expert but it has to fall into the same category as the TVR Speed Twelve in terms of rarity and desirability.  They did after all race against each other in period 25yrs ago.  We all know what a Speed Twelve sold for recently, so you'd have to think in the future there is some headroom in the prices and values of Lister Storms.  These cars were for sale for £220,000 back in 1994.  To my mind, it's well worth the investment to purchase and finish this super rare car.    

Registration:

The car does not currently have a V5, it would need to be registered with the DVLA once completed. I'm currently looking into what would be required to do this and will share my findings as I progress with this.

Export:  I am happy to help facilitate an export sale, please go over to my Global Sales page for an initial idea of potential shipping costs. 

Contact me on:

+447970 464360 by phone call or WhatsApp