Litton Corse

**Stratie.fr** · 27-05-2021, 16:51

Originally Posted by john

The Litton Corse S ( like Steves) can make a nice car with diligent effort, and some expense of course.
I know the ballpark figure thst this car sold for some years ago. And I know very well what it cost to do and how long it took.
There's a profit to be made in Steve's car even at £20k.

For sure with diligent effort some expenses and skills you can make a nice car with an old Corse S

(below the original car few years ago before your works)

Thank you John for posting this nice photo in Perigord during one of our great and memorable adventures!!

**FiveHundred** · 29-05-2021, 18:08

Originally Posted by Stratie.fr

For sure with diligent effort some expenses and skills you can make a nice car with an old Corse S

(below the original car few years ago before your works)

Thank you John for posting this nice photo in Perigord during one of our great and memorable adventures!!

Now that you've posted this latest photo, Frederic, it broke a memory, since I remember test-driving this very car sometime during the late '90s, down in South Staffordshire. It was a mixed experience overall, or (as they used to say in England) "Like the curate's egg, good in parts".

I do remember it as being nicely-built (by the standards of the time) which makes sense since the owner/builder was a professional model-maker and so equipped with the kinds of skills still relevant for this type of project. (Although those white, twin-boom door mirrors were a real aberration...).

It drove OK, and the agile turn-in was great (short wheelbase, of course) but unfortunately the 2.0 Lampredi twin-cam fitted didn't exactly deliver on the big cheque signed by that jaw-dropping 'Alitalia' bodywork. If I can unearth the 1990s advert for it, Frederic, I'll happily send a copy over, but yours & John's years of hard work on it since have certainly wrought some terrific improvements to the original car as I viewed it.

**ProtoTipo** · 29-05-2021, 18:23

This advert?:

**FiveHundred** · 29-05-2021, 19:22

Originally Posted by ProtoTipo

This advert?:

Err... no, Chris. That was certainly the same car but with a completely different photo, and it doesn't read at all like the advert I remember answering, on that Wolverhampton-coded number shown.

Particularly since "£10,000" was the asking price by then, if I remember things a'right... and, yes, it was road-legal, possessing an SVA & MoT.

(But 'no', I wouldn't have bought it at either price; although its better aspects certainly helped to inspire my next project then following).

**Longtimefan** · 29-05-2021, 19:36

Fredric, that was Milton's car wasn't it?

Robin

**john** · 31-05-2021, 06:49

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

Fredric, that was Milton's car wasn't it?

Robin

It was Milton Hollands car. There was a large black painted 'MH' on the underside of the bootlid when I removed the trim!
Interesting information Clive.
Not sure where it had been between you seeing it and Frederic purchasing it, but it had been fitted with an Alfa 12v.
Not particularly well fitted it has to be said. I still have the 'fabricated' engine mounts in a box marked 'Exhibit A', but they had to be replaced, along with most of the other work carried out under Napiersport banner.

**Stratie.fr** · 01-06-2021, 15:12

Right Robin and Clive you well recognize this Corse S ex Milton Holland I bought at Mapple Leaf garage in Daventry more a decade ago .

After some tribulations with Napiersport John helped me to find the car lost somewhere in Yorkshire and he made a fantastic job for converting and improving it in Gp 4, but the 12v engine refurbished twice still had some overheating issues ... I finally sold the car almost a misery...but such a great memories though!!