“How on earth did I end up with another project? Well, it started like this....”

  

 

Having a daily glance at the Rochdale Owners Club website forum I noticed an entry from a fellow member who I partly blame/thank for the purchase of this Mark VI stating, there is a Paramount roadster chassis on Ebay, may have been Rochdale bodied at one stage according to the description.

It was following this that I contacted the previous owner of this once Mark VI bodied chassis advertised on Ebay, the previous owner informed me he had big plans for the Paramount Chassis and wanted to use the Mark VI shell for projects further down the line.  Unfortunately other projects took over so the Paramount chassis had to go, so he sold it at auction a while back. The new owner had obviously decided to sell it on through Ebay. Brian did still have the Body Shell in his garage though and was prepared to sell it!

Although the sentimental side of me wanted to reunite this Body Shell with the chassis for sale on Ebay I was too late as it had already been sold. I had other plans but decided to telephone the new owner of the Paramount Chassis to get a copy of the history file for my early Rochdale records, it was at this point he told me he no longer intended to use it for the fitting of a 4CS Maserati body and offered me first refusal before he put it back on the market or sold the engine separately.This is where the rebuild diary carries on, follow the links on the right hand side of your screen. 

This particular car is probably the only Paramount Mark VI to have survived intact having been built originally on its Chassis by Mr I Martin from Kirriemuir. This then changed hands in 1995 being sold to the well known classic car enthusiast Duncan Rabagliati and finally resting with Brian Parodi in 2007.