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The Allard Palm Beach is a small British roadster built by Allard Motor Company between 1952 and 1958, with a Mark II introduced in 1956. Based on the chassis of the K3, but with only four- or six- cylinder engine options. Production only reached 80 units by the end of 1958 when manufacturing of the Palm Beach ended.


Mark I

The Palm Beach was sold with a choice of four-cylinder 1.5-litre (1508 cc) engine from a
Ford Consul The Ford Consul is a car that was manufactured by Ford of Britain from 1951 until 1962. The name was later revived for a model produced by Ford in both the UK and in Germany from 1972 until 1975. Between 1951 and 1962, the Consul was the four-cyl ...
producing or a six-cylinder 2.3-litre (2262 cc) engine from a Ford Zephyr producing . There was one V8 model built to special order for an Argentinian customer, supplied new with a 4.0-litre Dodge 'Red Ram' engine. Consul-engined cars (only eight were built) are called "21C" (''C'' for Consul) while the six-cylinder cars are called "21Z" (Zephyr). The sole Dodge-engined car received the model code "21D".


Mark II

Introduced in 1956, the Mark II Palm Beach dropped the four-cylinder option, and introduced the availability of a Jaguar sourced six-cylinder 3.4-litre (3442 cc) engine.


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