KDU 499N - Happy 40th Birthday

[trickyx12000]

at malvern i picked up another book on tr7-8

Well at the back a picture of a girl on a rally car. KDU499N..
well i have been looking for a picture of this car for a long time but all i have ever seen was KDU498-497N. and even KDU366N?
i was starting to think my memory was playing up.
does anyone know any thing about KDU499N. is she still running?
i use to see this car around the works (longbridge)in the 80's being privately own by a cooling engineer and being used as daily transport.
in 1988-89 i went to view her on a housing estate in halesowen with a veiw to purchasing the car but bottled it as she was looking a bit sad.. i was told she did a bit of privately entered rallying after..?

[Roy Hankins]

I bet you wish you didn't bottle it all those
years ago.

The good news is it's still showing on the DVLA database
but not been mobile for a very long time.

Vehicle enquiry
The enquiry is complete.The vehicle details for KDU 499N are:
Date of Liability 01 01 1990
Date of First Registration 15 07 1975
Year of Manufacture 1975
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1998cc
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type PETROL
Export Marker N
Vehicle Status Unlicensed
Vehicle Colour MULTI-COLOUR

I hope it's still out there.

Roy

[Chris Turner]

The car is in the process of being totally rebuilt with a brand new shell. It was never a factory rally car, more of a press car.

THE Coca Cola car
The C+C Conversions rally car
TR7 Sprint
TR7V8 rally car

[John Wood]

Was it fitted with a Sprint engine?

1975 TR7
1977 TR7 Sprint

[trickyx12000]

hi when i saw it she had a standard engine in, the owner said he had brought her from BL motorsports and had once been fitted with a v8, but from her age i guess she would of had a sprint engine first off. she was in the later colours but i was told she had been in the earlier colours, which rings true with the picture i found the other day.

i'm still waiting for a friend of my to get me a picture of a sprint tr7 he had from the works and wrote off!! twice

[John Wood]

I remember the yellow flatbed with the registration SJWxxxS

1975 TR7
1977 TR7 Sprint

[rugbyref1]

Registered today 40 years ago today - anyone know who the current owner is? Dropped off the radar in 1990

[mak]

Erm, call me shallow, but what happened to the girl?

Would it be terribly misogynist to suggest a feature on what became of the girls of British Leyland? I think I know the answer to this, apologies in advance..... (didn't one of them become an Archaeologist?)

[mak]

(sorry, I know i'm deviating) http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/facts-a ... bes-1970s/

[rugbyref1]

I know it's out there! ... but my usual bloodhounds can't locate it .... anyone know where it is?

[whitenviro]

I'm sure you are only interested in the car in that photo....

[Chris Turner]

This car is in a private collection along with a few ex works cars, may be out next year.

[FI Spyder]

Not nice calling that young lady an "it" but I'm sure she's retired by now.

[John_C]

Page 343 of Bill Price's book has an even better picture. The numberplate is obscured so we can only read 'KDU 4' but I think we now know which car it is. No doubt all of us on here have got Bill's book, haven't we?