Allard Safari

Production period:	1952 to 1953
Class :	Luxury car
Body versions :	station wagon
Engines:	Petrol : 3.6 litres (62.5 kW)
Length:	16 ft. 0 in
Width:	5 ft, 10 in.
Height:	5ft, 3 in.
Wheelbase :	9 ft. 4 in,
Dry weight :	29 cwt

The Allard Safari is a was a massive three door woody estate car with three-door, five-seater sports Combinatorial by the British firm Allard from 1952 as a derivative of the model P2 built. The Safari estate car shared the same chassis and the same front end as the Monte Carlo, but had constructed as a woody station-wagon cabin. Surprisingly, it was priced a long way below the Monte Carlo saloon. 

Any number of engines could be fitted, but Ford's side valve V8 was the standard, though by now inadequate dated, unit, as was its three-speed gearbox. As on the K3, the gear lever was outboard of the seats. The safari had the same powertrain as the saloon P2. The side-steering V8 engine came from the Ford Pilot, as well as the three-speed gearbox. The engine had a displacement of 3622 cc (bore x stroke = 77.79 mm x 96.25 mm), was 6.1: 1 compressed and made 85 bhp (62.5 kW) at 3500 rpm.  Instead, on request could other V8 engines - mostly from US car models can be installed.

• Engine Performance: -3622 cc
• Max. b.h.p. - 85 at 3.500 r.p.m.
• Max. b.m.e.p. - 102 lb./sq. in. at 2,000 r.p.m.
• BHP per sq. in. piston area - 1.44
• Peak piston speed per min. - 2,190

Fitted with a 112in-wheelbase X-type chassis, with a multi-tube layout and coil spring De Dion rear suspension. The front wheels were suspended individually and had coil springs. The driven rear wheels on a De Dion axle. The wheelbase was the same as the Monte Carlo sedan, 2845 mm, the track front / rear 1486 mm. The station wagon was 152 mm longer than the saloon with 5029 mm. At the front, and like the M2X, there was an "A" (for Allard) motif to the grille, and the entire front-end wings,
bonnet and front shroud tilted up for access. The chassis frame was made of steel pipes with aluminium body. At the back of the station wagon was the wooden frame structure of the body, as was the case with many contemporary station wagons in the USA from the time. So, it was a Woodie.

The car at the time was a commercial flop in total, ten copies were made.