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SOLVED - What car #10 - 1992 Allard P4
« on: November 04, 2007, 05:40:24 PM »
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Re: What car #10
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2007, 09:17:00 AM »
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Re: What car #10
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2007, 09:23:36 AM »
Nope. Unless you were talking about that animal in the background - oh, no, that's a lion  ;)
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Re: What car #10
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2007, 10:16:13 AM »
This is one of two Allard P3 models built in 1992, based on the Lexus LS400.

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Re: What car #10
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2007, 11:12:22 AM »
Impressive, especially since there is hardly no reference at all to these cars anywhere on the web.

But congratulations!
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Re: SOLVED - What car #10 - 1992 Allard P3
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2011, 06:39:34 AM »
(...) especially since there is hardly no reference at all to these cars anywhere on the web.(...)
most likely because it is named Allard CL4 in most sources...?

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Re: SOLVED - What car #10 - 1992 Allard P3
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2011, 01:07:47 PM »
Wow! Was it a prototype of a production car or a concept model?

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Re: SOLVED - What car #10 - 1992 Allard P3
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2011, 01:10:01 PM »
I'm not sure, but as far as I understand it was a still-born project intended for a small series production car.

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Re: SOLVED - What car #10 - 1992 Allard P3
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2011, 02:06:49 PM »
I have a 1995 promotion package for the Allard P4 in my collection.
Well, it is just 5 pages printed in colour by a persional computer in that days.
Thatīs been all available at that time.

It was a Harold Radford creation, by the way.

And there must be a colour ad in CAR 6/95, as my hard discīs found out.

But do not ask me where I might find both...
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Re: SOLVED - What car #10 - 1992 Allard P3
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2011, 02:53:28 AM »
To add to Grobmotorix's correct information about this Allard P4, the car was the brainchild of designer Chris Humberstone who purchased the rights to the Radford name in the early 1990s to begin remaking and selling Radford Minis from a posh showroom in West London.  The Allard P4 was based on a Lexus LS430 and at least two were built.
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Re: SOLVED - What car #10 - 1992 Allard P3
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2012, 01:18:06 PM »
Another view -

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Re: SOLVED - What car #10 - 1992 Allard P3
« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2013, 03:25:26 PM »
Hereīs a scan from the CAR ad:

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Re: SOLVED - What car #10 - 1992 Allard P3
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2013, 01:18:25 PM »
I guess the title has to be changed to "Allard P4". Any objections?

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Re: SOLVED - What car #10 - 1992 Allard P4
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2013, 04:20:47 PM »
No... ;)