Allora Moulds

[ProtoTipo]

I might have asked this before, but
Is this the car that the Allora moulds were taken from?
Or is it more complicated than that?
Scheldt and Pettet

[Guy Mayers]

I believe so! The Allora cars have a distinctive point to the from clam seen on this car in it's lifetime. I also believe that the shell was damaged on a number of occasions and this may not have been put straight every time, the screen aperture may have also been distorted....

Guy

[Strat Fan]

I was also under the impression that this was the case but the Allora moulds are Stradale & the rear canopy on this car is not (parts on centre tub obviously removable), I haven't seen the body lines behind the front wheel arches on this car which would be a give away aswell as the nose tip. I haven't seen any pics of the Scheldt & Pettet car with the "exaggerated" LHS body lines that the early Allora had but these would go along with the accident damage theory.
The version of the car in this pic also has modified front light rebates & roof spoiler. The top section of the roof spoiler is flat though.

[ProtoTipo]

I haven't seen any pics of the Scheldt & Pettet car with the "exaggerated" LHS body lines that the early Allora had but these would go along with the accident damage theory.

Craig,
Here's a LH side shot of this car:
S&P car

[strat24v]

I have some video of it on a vhs tape.

[colin artus]

This is one those 'yes and no' answers. The S&P car was built from a badly damaged tub and, for example, this is shown by the lack of curvature in the roof section. This error is reproduced by the Allora so I think it's safe to say that the tub mould was taken from the S&P car. The front and rear sections on both cars are aftermarket Italian sourced bodywork, which was all that was commercially available at the time. Did Stuart Gross buy his own or simply mould off S&P's? Probably the former.