Volvo 144s Rally Car

[Sam Barker]

Hi All,
I'm in the half fortunate position of getting hold of a Ginetta, a car I've always fancied, but unfortunate in that I'll not be able to keep the 144 and the Ginetta, so anyone here fancy a rally car?
It has been continually worked on, and used in the NESCRO rallies, and has always finished, and never last! Basically, it's a great first car for these kind of motorsport events.

So, currently it has:

1968 car with 187,000 miles on it.
1972 B20E engine, from a 40k miler I dismantled. It's running twin SUs just rebuilt, the overdrive gearbox from the B20E.
It has the Amazon cars progressive springs on it, KYB gas shock absorbers, full set of polybush bushes from KG Trimning. Recent steering rods.

All the brake calipers have been replaced with reconditioned items.

Steel FIA spec sump guard

It runs on 740 steelies with rally tyres on it, I've the original set of wheels and hub caps too.

The fuel tank has been removed and it now has an alloy tank over the rear axle, firewalled also.

Interior, hmm, two Sparco seats, 4 point harnesses, 6 point Safety Devices roll cage, still has door and ceiling trim in place, the rear seat is now foam backed.

It's a great fun, car, MOTed and taxed (which is free), but I think it's too far modded to convert back to original, however it is a great way to have a fun car that you don't worry too much about.

There's also a load of spares and K cam, steel timing gear and crank scraper that I haven't yet fitted which will come with the car if the price is right!

What I plan to do is keep driving and working on it until it sells so spec may change slightly as I go.

It has also been used in Practical Classics and also Full Throttle magazine, which I was involved in.

Hmm, hard to put a value on this so I've totted up what it owes me for the purchase and all the parts, then halved it, I hope the wife doesn't check this site!

£1950 ono, feel free to PM me for any questions or further details, I've put on a few pics, but I'm overseas so will upload more detailed ones when I return.

Cheers all,

Sam