Austin Allegro 1750 SS
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Remember that Allegro?
Back in 2020, Tim and Jonny rescued an Austin Allegro 1750 SS (Sport Special) from a lockup garage. This car had been sitting there since the early 1980s, where the original owner from new had parked it up after the use of another vehicle.
The very entertaining video of “the barnfind” can be found on YouTube, on the The Late Brake Show channel.
Tim had carried out some initial work on the Allegro, including fitting a set of tyres that stayed inflated and also managed to get the seized engine to turn over on the starter. Tim kept the Allegro until 2023 when the custodianship switched to Andy, a young Allegro enthusiast who kept it before downsizing his fleet when I took it on.
Now I’m very busy running my own garage, I have more than enough to do so I’m not mentioning business names or indeed my own name and would like to keep as lower profile as possible. I’ve been involved with Allegros since the early ‘90s, but this thread is all about this Allegro.
That’s the very abbreviated history so far, efforts are now being made to get it running for further assessment and then it will be restored.
The other side of the story is tracking down the paperwork history (or rather complete lack of it, not being recognising by DVLA etc because it’s been out of the system for 4 decades), no other paper documents survive.
As I suspected from the heater date stamp of April 1973 it was going to be a fairly early example. The public launch of the Allegro was 17th May 1973 and they had been building up a stock of 10,000 cars beforehand. Factory records did survive for this Allegro (sheer luck here as the Chassis number before it was at the end of many missing records), the actual build date is 19/06/73. It was built in a batch of 23 White SSs (not by date order but by chassis numbers), but it hung round the factory till September, 01/09/73 until it was dispatched.
It was dispatched to Marshall of Peterborough which was the main distributor. After that, it went to a local dealer in Bourne, most likely to be Tuck Bros Austin & Wolseley agents which is in Lincolnshire and ties up with the NTL reg number. If anyone has any further information about this dealer please let me know. Strangely, the only surviving document is a keyring, W O Woolf a Morris dealer up the road in the same town.
I’ll leave it at that for now, as this is my first post on here I’m unable to post any photos or appropriate links. There’s plenty to report with progress so hopefully that will change soon.
Back in 2020, Tim and Jonny rescued an Austin Allegro 1750 SS (Sport Special) from a lockup garage. This car had been sitting there since the early 1980s, where the original owner from new had parked it up after the use of another vehicle.
The very entertaining video of “the barnfind” can be found on YouTube, on the The Late Brake Show channel.
Tim had carried out some initial work on the Allegro, including fitting a set of tyres that stayed inflated and also managed to get the seized engine to turn over on the starter. Tim kept the Allegro until 2023 when the custodianship switched to Andy, a young Allegro enthusiast who kept it before downsizing his fleet when I took it on.
Now I’m very busy running my own garage, I have more than enough to do so I’m not mentioning business names or indeed my own name and would like to keep as lower profile as possible. I’ve been involved with Allegros since the early ‘90s, but this thread is all about this Allegro.
That’s the very abbreviated history so far, efforts are now being made to get it running for further assessment and then it will be restored.
The other side of the story is tracking down the paperwork history (or rather complete lack of it, not being recognising by DVLA etc because it’s been out of the system for 4 decades), no other paper documents survive.
As I suspected from the heater date stamp of April 1973 it was going to be a fairly early example. The public launch of the Allegro was 17th May 1973 and they had been building up a stock of 10,000 cars beforehand. Factory records did survive for this Allegro (sheer luck here as the Chassis number before it was at the end of many missing records), the actual build date is 19/06/73. It was built in a batch of 23 White SSs (not by date order but by chassis numbers), but it hung round the factory till September, 01/09/73 until it was dispatched.
It was dispatched to Marshall of Peterborough which was the main distributor. After that, it went to a local dealer in Bourne, most likely to be Tuck Bros Austin & Wolseley agents which is in Lincolnshire and ties up with the NTL reg number. If anyone has any further information about this dealer please let me know. Strangely, the only surviving document is a keyring, W O Woolf a Morris dealer up the road in the same town.
I’ll leave it at that for now, as this is my first post on here I’m unable to post any photos or appropriate links. There’s plenty to report with progress so hopefully that will change soon.
OOoo very much looking forward to seeing this, and after we spoke in person I'm utterly convinced you are the right person to bring this one back from the brink!
For those looking for the video of the initial find:
Pic posting/linking might need a few more posts about the forums or a time delay - just enough tiem for you to get all the rust sorted and setup a flickr account, right?
For those looking for the video of the initial find:
Pic posting/linking might need a few more posts about the forums or a time delay - just enough tiem for you to get all the rust sorted and setup a flickr account, right?
I remembered this barn find and actually looked back at a few recently out of curiosity to see if I could find any record of any progress on them - there never seems to be any updates or barn finds revisited. Anyway I was disappointed to find a car and classic ad where it appeared that little work had been done and it looked like it had just been sat on someone's driveway for another few years. That chap who found it didn't do anything with it despite the apparent enthusiasm. It looked like it was perhaps too far gone... So this had made me pleased to hear this rare Allegro might get another chance! Look forward to updates
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