The Allard J2 Is The Anglo-American V8 Sports Car That Inspired The Shelby Cobra | Carscoops carscoops
. The one where a Texan chicken farmer hits on the genius idea of stuffing a big V8 into one of them pretty and light, but under-powered British sports cars. But less well known is that Shelby almost certainly got the idea after driving another Anglo-America V8 hybrid an entire decade earlier.
But what is an Allard? Starting in the late 1940s, London-based Sidney Allard’s firm produced a small number of sports cars and convertibles powered by Ford’s flathead V8. But then Allard spotted an opportunity to grow his business by tapping into the post-war U.S. market for lightweight sports cars that Detroit’s automakers were ignoring.
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