Equipment
RHD. Trunk and dual rear mounted spares, Lucas headlamps and center mounted driving light, polished wheel discs, glass windshield visor, separated running boards. First owned by the Chairman of Park Ward on long wheelbase chassis. Intriguing coachwork with the close coupled passenger compartment leaving the luggage trunk abundant room between the rear wheels. Cosmetically restored in the 1980s, then mechanically restored in 2003 by UK specialists at a cost of $200K plus. Known history from new and showing only limited evidence of age and use.
Market commentary
Offered at the NY Auto Salon auction in 1999 where it was sold for only $104,500. Its had extensive work since then but the estimate range indicates the seller finds its attractive (but idiocyncratic) close coupled coachwork more desirable than others might. Even adding up the purchase price and the mechanical work, the reported high bid is a reasoble one for the car.