How much would you pay?

Nice looking car, but proper cars need a lid even if only a removable or fabric one. The purchase price unless very cheap is irrelevant with out a good proper engineered wet weather lid.
Further to that if it had said lid I would fully expect the car to be a much higher price given what we can see looks like good work, 15K or more I would expect with appropriately well engineered cover 1.2K with out!

PS Maybe the hubcaps would grow on you but they really are not doing it for me.

Graeme
 
On a further note it is a bit odd that he has series one'd to the extent he has ie BW35 and body panels etc.
 
To suggest it is a cut'n'shut is a bit strong,as that implies its 2 different car halves welded together!
Chopping the roof off,welding up the back doors to the wings,and welding in a beam onto the sills is a job any competent engineer/mechanic could achieve!
I do wonder if the front seats tilt for rear passenger access,or is it a matter of climbing in! :shock:

I wonder what happened to Richard Taylors convertible project after his passing?
 
Inspiration looks early 60's fiat / Lancia from some angles with radius rear arches and chrome hub caps.
Proportions are wrong with short front doors.
A lot of work - but a lot of money for a hybrid - with no roof -
£3000 as a novelty toy / talking point for someone - who can afford for it to get trashed in a storm ?

Mark
 
The problem with it is that it falls foul of the 8-point rule, and as such should have had a BIVA, which I would bet that it hasn't otherwise it would have been mentioned by the seller. If you buy it and DVLA/VOSA find out then it becomes your problem....
 
harveyp6 said:
The problem with it is that it falls foul of the 8-point rule, and as such should have had a BIVA, which I would bet that it hasn't otherwise it would have been mentioned by the seller. If you buy it and DVLA/VOSA find out then it becomes your problem....

That's what I was thinking!

Also, if you're going to do a nut and bolt resto on the car, why didn't he at least lengthen the doors? Standard-length front doors means that even if the front seats tilt, you'll still have a hard time getting into the back seats.
 
This car has been extensively restored over 3 years and has completed only 30 miles since completion.

No offence but that is hardly a ringing endorsement, is it?

It is 30 miles between my home and my garage of choice and I know from experience that just because a car can get me from Lake View to Manchester on its maiden voyage after a nuts and bolts restoration, it doesn't follow that the car is good for, say, a road trip to the Southern Uplands of Scotland.

That's exactly what happened with WXC426K - it made it to Manchester then Scotland and broke down on the way home.
 
I do like the look of it very much (even the hubcaps) bar the short front doors, & the work does seem to be of a high standard. It is however totally impractical even for a summers day with the smallest threat of rain (unless light shower under constant cruising conditions) & possibly non-compliant with regulations.

£12k is a lot of bread under those circumstances.
 
There's too much wrong with it for my liking. The work looks to a very high standard, but the rear wheel arches look wrong...too high...it has no roof of any kind...wrong.....no place for headrests.....wrong.... side windows - does it have any? It's really unusable in this country with no roof.

Dave
 
I considered putting plain hubcaps like these on one of my cars and I am glad I didn't, now I have seen them on a P6.
Vitesse alloys or extra shiny rostyles would be more suitable for the convertible.

I like P6 hubcaps though - very much indeed.
 
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