Amilcar C6 1927

 

Following Chassis 11023's purchase by AKVR founder Keith Bowley, the car was subject to a total ground up restoration along with another C6  belonging to the former Honda motor company CEO Nobuhiko Kawamoto. Due to the lack of parts available for these cars and known weaknesses in their mechanical design, AKVR instigated the re-manufacture of crucial replacement components. These ranged from Supercharger and Gearbox casings to Cam Covers and Gear Sets. Chassis 11023 has an interesting story as to it's discovery during the post war years.

In the October 1958 edition of the Veteran & Vintage magazine, an article from a correspondent Adrian Secker mentions his finding of two supercharged Amilcars in East Berlin just after the war. "They were too far gone for restoration" he writes. In 1960, the Amilcar register was then approached by a Swiss journalist offering an Amilcar C6 together with the remains of a second car. They were of course located in East Berlin. Engine 90016 used during the 500mile race at Brooklands was rescued from France whilst being used for powerboat racing.

The Amilcar register then received a letter from Mr Frost from the USA indicating that he had purchased the cars and restored one of them - allegedly this C6 Amilcar. Later while in England he met Mr Desmond Peacock, who expressed an interest and subsequently bought and imported the second car in bits. He pooled his resources with a friend Guy Weightman who had further missing parts bought directly from the Amilcar factory in 1930 and together they initially rebuilt the car without registering it for road use before selling the car to Keith Bowley in the 1980's.