page_title: Allard Motor Company
section_title: K3
hierarchical_section_title: Allard Motor Company / Post-war models / K / K3
caption_attribution_description: English: 1953 Allard K3 at the 2011 Mille Miglia Tribute in California. 63 K3s were built and 46 of them remain. Chassis number K3/3192, 331 ci Cadillac OHV V8 with ~210hp and drums all around. Three-speed manual. The K3 has an independent front suspension and a De Dion rear. At this time it belonged a Dr. Allard (not a relative) who owned the car for 33 years.
context_page_description: Allard Motor Company Limited was a London-based low-volume car manufacturer founded in 1945 by Sydney Allard in small premises in Clapham, south-west London. Car manufacture almost ceased within a decade. It produced approximately 1900 cars before it became insolvent and ceased trading in 1958. Before the war, Allard supplied some replicas of a Bugatti-tailed special of his own design from Adlards Motors in Putney.
  Allards featured large American V8 engines in a light British chassis and body, giving a high power-to-weight ratio and foreshadowing the Sunbeam Tiger and AC Cobra of the early 1960s. Cobra designer Carroll Shelby and Chevrolet Corvette chief engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov both drove Allards in the early 1950s.
context_section_description: In 1952, Allard adapted the Palm Beach in a K3, an attempt to offer a more civilized variant of the J2 and J2X models seen at the track. Exported to America as a potential "Corvette slayer" Dodge dealers had been clamoring for, it featured one of the most powerful engines of its era, the 331 cu in (5,420 cc) Chrysler hemi engine, fitted with a pair of 4-barrel carburetors. Essentially a rebodied Palm Beach, it failed to find a niche in either market in spite of its performance. Today the exceptionally rare automobile can fetch the better part of US$250,000 at auction. 62 examples were built, of which 57 were delivered to the United States.
caption: 1953 K3
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