Will it be a show or concours car?

 

Unfortunately no.  Prior to me owning the car it had already been in an accident which has left it's mark.  My aim is to get it roadworthy and use it in the dry as a general get me around for as long as I can maintain it.  The winters will be handy to undertake the maintenance required!!

 
 

 

The History

 

So there I was no Sprint, no money, no wife.

 

Decided to change jobs and start afresh.  Got a great job, girlfriend, mortgage and a second hand Inca Sprint (yes I know, glutton for punishment)

 

Bill duly returned the spares from the rally Sprint which I set about transferring to the road car during 1984.  When I had finished, about 3 months work, I naturally wanted to take the car out for a blast but my insurance had expired.  (you think you know what's coming ha ha).  I asked my girlfriend, who was insured on her own policy, if she would get some petrol and drive me out to a gated, private road to have a blast.  A phone call not many minutes later was to advise me that the Sprint was stuffed into the back of a Nissan Sunny about half a mile up the road.  Next piece omitted for younger readers.

 

Car was drivable to home but a broken radiator, fan and significant frontal damage meant that major remedial work was required.  As my girlfriends' insurance was only TPFT when driving someone else's car it was hands in the pocket time.  Not being good at body work the car went to a local body shop for repair and re-spray.  I decided that the mechanicals could do with an overhaul so just as the car was to be hauled off for fixing I removed engine, gearbox ancillaries etc so I could work on them when the car was away.

 

Car was returned, repair was excellent but re-spray was not of a high quality, more curtains and tears than any theatre production you may have seen.

 

Whilst the engine was out I Hammerited the engine compartment, inside front valance, behind the headlamps, inside the front and rear wings and under boot, up to the back seats.

 

Sprint of Ken Clarke above pictured at Silverstone on 16 August 2003.