Stondon museum cars - where are they now?

[quicksilver]

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.

[sierraman]

Wasn’t there a Talbot Alpine in there as well? 

[barrett]

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.

[LightBulbFun]

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

 

[catsinthewelder]

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.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I'd love to know who's got the Muesum's blue Ro80 ("KAY  ...N") now.

[Fabergé Greggs]

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. 

[LightBulbFun]

WHK-L

 

[quicksilver]

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

[Tadhg Tiogar]

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.

[Dead_E23]

   Anyone know what happened to the site?   Covered in 'little boxes made of ticky tacky'?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

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)

[skoda_fan]

The B reg Skoda Rapid Convertible sold for good money and returned to its homeland. The Czechs treasure such things.

[wuvvum]

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.

[anonymous user]

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.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

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.

[cms206]

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.

[greengartside]

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.

[LightBulbFun]

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)

[dollywobbler]

There was an NSU Prinz in the collection which is now owned by a HubNutter. It was at the Bromley Pageant.

[Angrydicky]

I hate numberplate thieves. Our Standard had its original reg WF 8392 nicked long before we got it, now on an Audi TDi. Ffs.

[skoda_fan]

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.

[stuboy]

now bang on some 65a glx alloys and its a beauty

[BeEP]

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.

[DSdriver]

Is that a Citroen Familiale traction avant in the background?

[bunglebus]

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

[meggersdog]

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. 

[Philmanns]

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. 

[LightBulbFun]

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!)

[Bren]

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?