As you're probably aware by now, Barrett and I bought an Allegro last week, and due to overwhelming* demand I thought I'd finally put up some pictures and that.
The purchase of this was all Trigger's fault, as he put a link to the Car & Classic ad up on the Ebay Tat thread on the brown last Tuesday evening. Within minutes, Barrett had said he'd go halves and I'd called up to check whether it was still available. Obviously it was.
Plans were made, and I caught the train from Brighton to Martin's Heron on Thursday to collect it!
It's a lot cleaner than expected, apart from the obvious damage and a few minor rusty bits of bodywork it's pretty tidy. There is some rust underneath along the edges of the floors, we'll see what the MOT man says about that. Still, with about 6 weeks of MOT and tax til the end of July it seems like a massive bargain. The engine is about as smooth and quiet as an A series gets!
Anyway, pictures:
Quality reading material for the train journey courtesy of Trigger
Obligatory petrol station shot
On arrival back in Brighton, I met Barrett on Madeira Drive, there's a small monthly car gathering at some gallery thing.
Rug was included.
DENT
The radio is a modern* one out of a '90s Rover, but the original came with it as well.
Viewed from the 1950s
Here's the history file:
The original owner had it until 2001. It was then sold to a young guy who had it when the door was damaged in 2002. It was reversed into in a car park. The lady we bought it from had it since just after that, she bought it as a Cat C in November '02 for £75. She also has a white S reg Allegro 2 she does shows with, and said she was a founding member of the Allegro club as well.
The little book is from the original owner and shows every single journey the car made until January '97.
It mainly says 'Woking' a lot, with 'Doctors' probably in 2nd place. What is the point of this?!! When would you ever need this information?! At least I now know that it's first journey after I was born was to a farm shop and the mileage was 16,940. Interesting*
The 'highlight' of this rather pointless document is that in November '95 he got a new 'speedmeter' fitted, as he didn't trust the odometer on the old one for some reason. The car now shows 24.425 miles less than it should. (currently displaying just over 30,000, so actual mileage is about 55k)
