This was one of the entrants in the HGPCA Race for pre 1959 Drum Brake Sports Cars at the Historic Sports Car Club's Historic Tribute meeting at Silverstone in June 2004.
It's Dean Butler's 1953 Allard J2R, chassis 3404, which was driven in the race by Michael Windsor Price. Prior to the Second World War Sydney Allard produced a series of Allard Specials, and in 1945 founded the Allard Motor Company Ltd, which soon began to produce lightweight cars powered by large American V8 engines that were sold on both sides of the Atlantic. Sydney Allard himself drove his cars several times at Le Mans in the early 1950s, the best result being a third place finish in the 1950 race with an Allard J2. The J2R was Allard's final competition car, and it has a 390 cu in (6.4 litre) Cadillac V8 engine. The company continued to produce the Palm Beach and K3 sports cars and the P1 Sports Saloon until finally going into administration in 1957.
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