Topic: Solved: DAR 27 - Jaguar-Allard

[D-type]

This picture is taken from a contemporary advert.   I don't know whether it gives the correct name of this car.  So, can you tell me the chassis and the engine for a point?

[D-type]

No interest from the rookies so it's up to the experts.

[FrontMan]

Tojeiro-Bristol?

[D-type]

Not a Tojeiro chassis and not a Bristol engine.

[mekubb]

Jaguar XK-based ?

[D-type]

Jaguar engine.  From the date of the advertisement I would say it is an XK engine of some form - but I have no idea whether an XK, C-Type, D-Type or even a Mk VII
Judging from the name of the car in the advert, the underpinnings are NOT from a Jaguar.

[FrontMan]

....with a Microplas Mistral body on an Allard K1 frame?

[D-type]

You've got it!  A point is winging your way. 
I can't vouch for the Mistral body but it certainly looks like one to me.
Here's the advert I came across.  I have grave suspicions about the "Jaguar-Allard" name - hence the way I phrased the question.

[D-type]

Here's another car with a Microplas Mirage body.  It looks very similar to me.

[Allan L]

It may not be relevant but the Allard Palm Beach II could be Jaguar-powered, so the puzzle car could have been one of those re-bodied.

[FrontMan]

Anything is possible in the Wide World of "Autopuzzles",....but I respectfully suggest that only the K1 used that style of pierced road wheel. I can't even recall any other make using that same wheel .  Many thanks for the point.

[D-type]

It may not be relevant but the Allard Palm Beach II could be Jaguar-powered, so the puzzle car could have been one of those re-bodied.

If it was a rebodied Palm Beach, surely the vendor would have said so in his advert as it would hve made it more saleable. 
The choice of name, Jaguar-Allard, suggests to me it wasn't simply an Allard chassis with a Jaguar engine fitted, which would have been called an Allard-Jaguar, but a special with a Jaguar engine fitted in a modified Allard chassis.  Hence the description "Especially built for sprints and hillclimbs".
But this is all mere speculation.

[nicanary]

I have just checked the registrations of the ex-Tommy Sopwith and Brian Croot Sphinx.  Croot installed a Jaguar engine before he purchased a Jaguar C-type. Sadly the licence plates are not the same. That was an Allard chassis with Jaguar engine.