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Rochdale ST For Sale

Rochdale, fully restored after storage since 1991 now red with ford 100E engine mot to 15 august 2011 offers required i honestly do not know what its worth you tell me. With v5c taxed valuable number 97epg may px for rough 1930s riley cash ew £6000

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-page.php/carno/107245

Rochdale Olympic For Sale

Rochdale Olympic for Sale in France (I think) previously sold on Ebay in July 09, click on the following link:

http://www.sportetclassique.com/cars/index/3/restauration/

Rochdale Olympic For Sale

Rochdale Olympic to be offered at the Bonhmas Beaulieu Car Auction on 11 Sept 10

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-page.php/carno/107371

Lot No: 567

1968 Rochdale Olympic II Coupé
Registration no. VWT 144F
Chassis no. MGS6851600
Engine no. 2737E6015A

Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500, € 1,200 - 1,800

Footnote:
Rochdale Motor Panels started in 1948 as panel beaters before turning to the manufacture of aluminium bodies for competition cars and then glassfibre bodyshells for the specials-building industry. In 1959 Rochdale announced the Olympic 2+2 coupé, a radical design that is historically significant as only the second production car to use a glassfibre monocoque hull, the first being the Colin Chapman-designed Lotus Elite. Its designer Richard Parker came up with a very pretty and aerodynamically most efficient shape for the Olympic, while Rochdale's experience of working with glassfibre was evident in the one-piece body moulding, which varied in thickness so that it was strong at stressed points but not needlessly heavy elsewhere. Available in kit form or fully finished, the first Olympic was designed to accept BMC engines and running gear, though some had Ford power. The motoring press was universally impressed by the Olympic's quality of construction and all round competence, and there can be little doubt that more than 150 would have been sold but for the catastrophic fire that destroyed the factory in 1961.
For 1963 the design was revised, appearing as the 'Olympic II' with an opening rear hatch, improved suspension, separate engine/radiator compartments and an under-floor spare wheel. Ford power was now the norm. Motor Sport magazine tested an Olympic II shortly after its introduction, recording a 0-60mph time of 11.4 seconds and an astonishing top speed of 114mph, figures which were subsequently confirmed by other road tests. Approximately 250 Olympic IIs were sold between 1963 and the early 1970s.
This Olympic II was constructed by Martin Spencer, an employee of turbocharger manufacturers Holset Engineering, who spent £800 and 250 hours building it. He completed the car early in 1968 using a Ford Cortina GT 1,600cc cross-flow engine and wrote an account of the project in the Holset magazine, which subsequently appeared in Hot Car.
In 2004 the Olympic was acquired by the Malcolm McKay Collection (Mr McKay being the Rochdale Owners Club's registrar) as a restoration project but no progress had been made before the car was sold in 2009 to the current vendor. Unfortunately, the latter has spent much of the intervening period in hospital and now feels that its resurrection is best left to a new owner.
'VWT 144F' requires full restoration, though fortunately the Rochdale Owners Club is able to offer assistance to restorers and can supply almost all parts unique to the Olympic, including the windscreen and front subframe. The bodyshell and front subframe of this example appear sound. A full Rochdale trim kit and twin fuel tanks were fitted at the time of its original construction, though the tanks have since been removed and an alternative will have to be found. The engine is dismantled. Rochdale sourced the Olympic's running gear from BMC, Triumph and Ford, parts for which remain widely available at relatively modest cost. Offered with old-style logbook and sold strictly as viewed, 'VWT 144F' represents a rare opportunity to acquire an Olympic restoration project affording the prospect of a potent and enjoyable road/rally car on completion.

Rochdale Olympic For Sale

My German is not that great but if you look at the following web address I think the Olympic is for sale.

http://www.classiccarconnection.ch/Fahrzeughandel/andereMarken/Rochdale%20Olympic%20Phase%20I/Fotogalerie%20Rochdale%20Olympic%20Phase%201.html

This car used to own to a Rochdale Owners Club Member, some more info below from the Rochdale Owners Club Website;

First registered on 1st January 1962 to Boon and Porter Ltd. The original colour was British Racing Green (current colour Lotus Racing Yellow). The car was built for Penelope Porter, daughter of Bob Porter, one of the directors of Boon and Porter Ltd. It was hill climbed and sprinted by Penelope in the mid sixties. The car was quite quick, recording a best time of 32.16 sec. for the standing kilometre the average speed over the last 44 yards was 96 m.p.h. (Brighton Speed trials). Bob Porter had a very good relationship with the BMC Special Tuning Department, which probably accounts for the odd engine number on the original block and on some of the parts which, records indicate, were for works competition use only.

The engine is MGA 1588c.c. with Westlake modified big valve head, ported and gas flowed, gearbox: MGA close ratio whilst the main running gear and suspension is Riley 1.5 with Morris Minor steering arms and tie rods.

Rochdale Olympic For Sale