1951 Marauder

This was one of the exhibits at the Northern Classic Car Show at the G-Mex Centre in Manchester in August 1990.

It's a 1951 Marauder, one of only 15 cars built, 12 of which are thought to still exist. The car was created by two ex-Rover engineers who based it on a shortened version of the Rover P4 75 chassis. The engine is a modified version of the 6-cylinder inline 2,103cc Rover engine and the first few bodies were made by Richard Mead of Dorridge, Solihull, later ones by Abbey Panels of Coventry. The cars were expensive, and when Purchase Tax was doubled for cars priced at over £1,000 the cost became prohibitive and production ceased in 1952.

On 29 May 2016 I showed a photograph of another of these cars that I had taken at Silverstone in 1995.