quicksilver Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 It's now over four years since the Stondon Motor Museum of legend closed its doors for the last time and several recent encounters with the collection's old Allegro set me thinking. I've only come across a handful of the former exhibits so it would be nice to find out what became of them. Here are the ones I know something about but can anyone fill in the fate of anything else? Austin Allegro - LVD620P To be honest this one's survival is a surprise as it was rough and full of wob. Not in the Brightwells auction but sold for £550 on ebay afterwards, the buyer restored but never used it. Sold again this year and now being enjoyed by a new owner from Warwick - I've just seen it at shows three weekends in a row. 1975 Austin Allegro 1100 Deluxe by Adam Floyd, on Flickr LVD 620P - 1975 Austin Allegro 1100 Deluxe by Adam Floyd, on Flickr Austin Cambridge - WPF685G Sold for £1800 by Brightwells. Seen on the club stand at Gaydon BMC and BL day 2017. 1968 Austin A60 Cambridge by Adam Floyd, on Flickr Vauxhall Astra - A616NUR I'm sure I saw a photo of this (on here?) at a show recently - anyone know more? 1983 Vauxhall Astra 1.6 SR by Adam Floyd, on Flickr Yugo - F94GFJ Joined Benjyp10's collection of low-mileage chod. Does he still have it? 1988 Zastava Yugo 45A by Adam Floyd, on Flickr Peugeot 104 - BCV179T Sold by Brightwells for £1300, then entered in a Coys auction and sold at a loss. Buyer said to be a well-known Peugeot club figure. 1979 Peugeot 104 ZL by Adam Floyd, on Flickr DAF - WHK573L Didn't this pass through a few Shiters' hands but where is it now? 1973 DAF 66 estate by Adam Floyd, on Flickr Invacar Mk12 - PEV627D Sold for £2400, allegedly to a collector in the USA. One for @LightBulbFun to track down methinks! 1966 Invacar Mark 12 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr So of the couple of hundred vehicles in the collection that's pretty much all I know the whereabouts of now. I know a lot were purchased by dealers and advertised at inflated prices so they may still be there, and most were a long way off roadworthy so they probably either got scrapped or are still awaiting/undergoing restoration. Has anyone else encountered any ex Stondon vehicle recently? It would be nice for this thread to form an ongoing record of where they ended up. JeeExEll, LightBulbFun, Burnside and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Wasn’t there a Talbot Alpine in there as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 CPC 34 has, depressingly, had the number robbed off it. It was for sale with its new id looking very tidy and has since sold so I assume in good hands. The number isn't even on a car, btw, just on retention. Let's hope the criminal who did it never sells it and ends up losing some money, eh. Bamboocarman, Angrydicky, Burnside and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Indeed I believe PEV627D is in the US im not sure who with currently, but id not be surprised if Ian hellings has it its specficly a Mk12B if your wondering http://classiccars.brightwells.com/viewdetails.php?id=5457 im not sure what happened to ORW132F sadly, I would not be surprised if this one was also sold to the US (a side note its a Very Early Tippen Delta 8, the Tippen Delta 8 being introduced in 1968) http://classiccars.brightwells.com/viewdetails.php?id=5456 of interest was also FON146 a 1941 Harding De Luxe http://classiccars.brightwells.com/viewdetails.php?id=5397 Sudsprint, Bamboocarman, Burnside and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 This bus Was bought by a very rich lady of the manor type who my friend works for. She was having ideas of doing wedding type faffery but I think its just been tucked away in a barn after being left outside for months. Presumably it will resurface at a future aution as a barn find. Burnside, Bamboocarman, Mrs6C and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 I'd love to know who's got the Muesum's blue Ro80 ("KAY ...N") now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabergé Greggs Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Wuv, then PBK and then I had the Daf 66. I did loads to it and got it running really nicely. I sold it to a bloke in Kent via RR. Someone dinged into it whilst parked and then the clutch went. He gave up on it and sold it via the Daf Owners club. It’s now being fully restored. Dick Longbridge, RobT, JeeExEll and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 WHK-L Mrs6C, Sudsprint and Fabergé Greggs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted July 6, 2019 Author Share Posted July 6, 2019 Some good info here already, thanks everyone. 1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: I'd love to know who's got the Muesum's blue Ro80 ("KAY ...N") now. KAY607N sadly appears to have left the country - it has the export marker with tax expired June 2017. I've discovered one more this afternoon, thanks to Mrs6C: KOA190W - Vanden Plas Allegro Pictured in the latest Allegro club magazine, having won the Harris Mann Award at the Nuffield Place rally recently. 1981 Vanden Plas 1500 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr Also the two sectioned display cars that were only on loan to the museum. The 1100 was returned to the 1100 Club and the Allegro is now in the Gaydon Collections Centre. 1966 Austin 1100 Countryman cutaway display vehicle by Adam Floyd, on Flickr 1973 Austin Allegro cutaway display vehicle by Adam Floyd, on Flickr Mrs6C, Sudsprint, Bamboocarman and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 2 minutes ago, quicksilver said: Some good info here already, thanks everyone. KAY607N sadly appears to have left the country - it has the export marker with tax expired June 2017.... Australia, I think. Not the only Ro80 to have been exported in recent years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead_E23 Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Anyone know what happened to the site? Covered in 'little boxes made of ticky tacky'? stonedagain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 4 hours ago, Dead_E23 said: Anyone know what happened to the site? Covered in 'little boxes made of ticky tacky'? Yes, it was sold for redevelopment, so there may well be unaffordable* housing there by now. Recent Street View photo showing some development underway. Another angle Just along the way*most private housing is by its very nature unaffordable, hence mortgages (unless you have serious piles of cash lying around spare) Bamboocarman, tooSavvy, loserone and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skoda_fan Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 The B reg Skoda Rapid Convertible sold for good money and returned to its homeland. The Czechs treasure such things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Did they ever get the floppytop Rapid in Czechoslovakia? My vague memories from the time are telling me that it was a conversion done by the importers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 I'm pretty sure the P6 Estoura, a wedgy Lagonda and possibly a CX estate ended up at a dealer in the Cotswolds. They have popped up on Ebay from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 19 minutes ago, anonymous user said: .... possibly a CX estate ended up at a dealer in the Cotswolds. .... That was the '83 Familiale from the JLR collection. Sold for £2600; quickly reappeared at Overbrook for 11 grand. No takers. Then appeared at an auction, where it failed to make guide price. Has gone to a second dealer who's asking seven grand for it at the moment. Still no takers. That CX is too well known now, and nobody likes being taken for mug punters. anonymous user, sutty2006, Burnside and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 8 hours ago, barrett said: CPC 34 has, depressingly, had the number robbed off it. It was for sale with its new id looking very tidy and has since sold so I assume in good hands. The number isn't even on a car, btw, just on retention. Let's hope the criminal who did it never sells it and ends up losing some money, eh. Had no idea Paisley marks were being issued, always fancied an XS mark for one of the fleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengartside Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 9 hours ago, sierraman said: Wasn’t there a Talbot Alpine in there as well? Yes, apparently so. A green B-plater. I’d love to know what happened to the Mk1 Fiesta, the blue TR7 and the Talbot Sunbeam. EDIT* Mk1 Fiesta is in Norn Iron, TR7 sold for £1k at Brightwells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 9 hours ago, LightBulbFun said: its specifically a Mk12B if your wondering nope its a 12A was looking at the vin plate closely and could make out an A, then had another look at the Date of First registration, then realised its Feb 66 (the Mk12B was introduced in April 1966) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 There was an NSU Prinz in the collection which is now owned by a HubNutter. It was at the Bromley Pageant. Burnside and skoda_fan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 I hate numberplate thieves. Our Standard had its original reg WF 8392 nicked long before we got it, now on an Audi TDi. Ffs. LightBulbFun and Amishtat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skoda_fan Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 11 hours ago, wuvvum said: Did they ever get the floppytop Rapid in Czechoslovakia? My vague memories from the time are telling me that it was a conversion done by the importers. Correct. The conversions were done by LDD Ltd in Kent. Because they never got a convertible in CZ, they have been keen to snap up the remaining ones from here. I sold my last one to them for £4k a few years back. It seems to be pretty much name your price if you have one now....though there are only a handful left here. garethj 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 now bang on some 65a glx alloys and its a beauty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeEP Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 15 hours ago, quicksilver said: KOA190W - Vanden Plas Allegro Pictured in the latest Allegro club magazine, having won the Harris Mann Award at the Nuffield Place rally recently. 1973 Austin Allegro cutaway display vehicle by Adam Floyd, on Flickr As above, the Applpejack VP was at the club's National Rally in May with it's new owner. It was never owned by Stondon, but on loan whilst its then owner lived in the USA. He came over specially in 2013 and brought it to the 40th anniversary (of the Allegro) rally at Gaydon. The cutaway was one of the last three cars (from memory) to leave the Stodon site. I had the pleasure* of transporting it to Gaydon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Is that a Citroen Familiale traction avant in the background? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Can't help with tracing any of the cars, but I was there the day it closed - bought boxes of car mags off them for a song Pics here; https://flic.kr/s/aHsm3wCd7d JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggersdog Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Just got back from Baston show@ Grimthorpe and the three wheel BSA from Stondon was there. The young lad was proudly showing us the photos of the restoration he and his father did of the car for his grandad. They used a lot of BSA Scout parts on it and the young lad (teenager) steamed and bent all the ash frame himself. Mrs6C and Angrydicky 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philmanns Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 On 7/6/2019 at 6:18 PM, Tadhg Tiogar said: Australia, I think. Not the only Ro80 to have been exported in recent years. It went to a buyer in the UK but he has now relocated to Ireland so the Ro has gone with him. Skizzer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 On 7/6/2019 at 2:34 PM, LightBulbFun said: Indeed I believe PEV627D is in the US im not sure who with currently, but id not be surprised if Ian hellings has it its specficly a Mk12B if your wondering http://classiccars.brightwells.com/viewdetails.php?id=5457 im not sure what happened to ORW132F sadly, I would not be surprised if this one was also sold to the US (a side note its a Very Early Tippen Delta 8, the Tippen Delta 8 being introduced in 1968) http://classiccars.brightwells.com/viewdetails.php?id=5456 further research leads me to believe that both of these actually ended up with Scott Milnes (especially as both have 2019 V5 dates, indicating they are still in the UK thankfully!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 On 7/7/2019 at 10:15 AM, DSdriver said: Is that a Citroen Familiale traction avant in the background? Is that a royale next to the astra? bangernomics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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