1969 Ashley 1172
(Triumph)
Registration No. FVW 6H
These Ashley 1172 photo's have been taken from the internet.
There were only three photo's shown and unfortunately no information was given about the cars builder or owners.
Current DVLA information 1/1/2013
The vehicle details for: Triumph - FVW 6H are:
Date of Liability 09 08 2005
Date of First Registration 19 09 1969
Year of Manufacture 1969
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 948cc
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type PETROL
Export Marker Y
Vehicle Status Unlicensed
Vehicle Colour White
Vehicle Type Approval Not Available
Should anyone have more knowledge of this Ashley 1172, please contact me at the email address shown below:
There were only three photo's shown and unfortunately no information was given about the cars builder or owners.
Current DVLA information 1/1/2013
The vehicle details for: Triumph - FVW 6H are:
Date of Liability 09 08 2005
Date of First Registration 19 09 1969
Year of Manufacture 1969
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 948cc
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type PETROL
Export Marker Y
Vehicle Status Unlicensed
Vehicle Colour White
Vehicle Type Approval Not Available
Should anyone have more knowledge of this Ashley 1172, please contact me at the email address shown below:
Then in March 2013 I was contacted by John Karampelas from Greece,
(See Greek Ashley 1172 - No.1)
he sent me a link to the Facebook page of George Nikolopoulos,
also from Greece.
The link was to these Ashley (Triumph) 1172 photo's
on the Facebook photo album of
George Nikolopoulos, who with Nassos Kravaritis
participated in the Regularity section of the
5th Historic Acropolis Rally 2006 ELPA in Greece.
This Ashley 1172 was entered into Regularity section of the 2006 rally and registered as a "1969 Ashley Triumph Special" and given the number "91" for the rally.
The main rally was held over 3 days with a total of 1112km over 3 legs through the area surrounding Athens
Maps showing Route
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The Scrutineering for the cars took place in front of the Zappeion in Athens, Greece and the rally, The 5th Historic Acropolis Rally, organised by ELPA, took take place from 3 to 7th May 2006.
This unique international motorsport event is one of the top rallies in the FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship.
The Sporting rally counts for the FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship
while the Regularity rally counts for the FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies.
2014
In January 2014 I contacted George and when he replied
he added a new dimension to the story by telling me that
his Ashley 1172 was originally registered in UK as
FVW 6H
He had purchased it on eBay in December 2005 from Darryl Tidd of Northampton who had only owned it 4 months, previous to that a Jonathan Saunders also of Northampton had owned it since February 1998 and before that Robert Chappell of Derbyshire since May 1992.
If any of these previous owners, there friends or relatives see this please contact me if you can provide more information about the car or just want to sign in with me.
he added a new dimension to the story by telling me that
his Ashley 1172 was originally registered in UK as
FVW 6H
He had purchased it on eBay in December 2005 from Darryl Tidd of Northampton who had only owned it 4 months, previous to that a Jonathan Saunders also of Northampton had owned it since February 1998 and before that Robert Chappell of Derbyshire since May 1992.
If any of these previous owners, there friends or relatives see this please contact me if you can provide more information about the car or just want to sign in with me.
George confirmed the year of construction as 1969 also that the
Chassis # REBECC1087 was a Triumph,
with a 948cc engine # 9S/H695,
probably both from a pre 1962 Herald.
(Essex C.C. issued chassis # for chassis's with no known number)
( REBuilt EssexCC 1087 )
Once in Greece George replaced the engine with a 1275cc Mini Cooper Engine and has since 2006 been competing in it on a regular basis as can be seen from the photo's above.
I will be adding more photo's and information as George provides it
so keep watching this story.
Chassis # REBECC1087 was a Triumph,
with a 948cc engine # 9S/H695,
probably both from a pre 1962 Herald.
(Essex C.C. issued chassis # for chassis's with no known number)
( REBuilt EssexCC 1087 )
Once in Greece George replaced the engine with a 1275cc Mini Cooper Engine and has since 2006 been competing in it on a regular basis as can be seen from the photo's above.
I will be adding more photo's and information as George provides it
so keep watching this story.
Then in June 2014 I spotted this advert for an auction in Greece
COYS AUCTIONS
Lot 103 - 1969 Triumph Ashley Special A243 Athena, Greece
Estimate: €10,000 - €12,000
Registration Number: Greek Historic
Chassis Number: REBECC1087
Keith Waddington and Peter Pellandine founded ASHLEY Laminates in 1954 to supply bodies for Austin Seven and in 1956 started to produce fibre-glass body shells for Ford 8. The exotic looks and the sleek lines were the main characteristics of Ashley cars success. Ashleys have been built on many wonderful and weird chassis , so we have Ashleys based on 1938 Singer, 1935 Talbot, Ford 10, Triumph Herald and Spitfire. That Ashley made a superior product may be gauged by the fact that in 1960 Autocars Ltd of Israel bought the rights to an Ashley body for its Sabra sports car (Reliant Sabre) and in 1990 a new Cortina-based car was built on a widened Ashley shell, Body shells were available for a few years after Waddington's death in the mid sixties and the Ashley Laminates company was wound up in 1972.
This particular Ashley on offer is finished in White with a red interior and fitted with an 1,172 Ashley shell. It is built on a Triumph Herald chassis and powered by a 1275 cc BMC engine. It was imported in Greece from UK in 2005 and has been restored.
In 2006 the car had successfully participated in the 5th Historic Acropolis Rally. Since then is carefully maintained and garaged and ready to use. This pretty and fully exotic roadster will provide its new owner with the looks and style of a much more expensive car. It comes with FIA paper. According to the perigafes is in very good condition and has a beautiful leather upholstery. Kept in a secure garage.
COYS AUCTIONS
Lot 103 - 1969 Triumph Ashley Special A243 Athena, Greece
Estimate: €10,000 - €12,000
Registration Number: Greek Historic
Chassis Number: REBECC1087
Keith Waddington and Peter Pellandine founded ASHLEY Laminates in 1954 to supply bodies for Austin Seven and in 1956 started to produce fibre-glass body shells for Ford 8. The exotic looks and the sleek lines were the main characteristics of Ashley cars success. Ashleys have been built on many wonderful and weird chassis , so we have Ashleys based on 1938 Singer, 1935 Talbot, Ford 10, Triumph Herald and Spitfire. That Ashley made a superior product may be gauged by the fact that in 1960 Autocars Ltd of Israel bought the rights to an Ashley body for its Sabra sports car (Reliant Sabre) and in 1990 a new Cortina-based car was built on a widened Ashley shell, Body shells were available for a few years after Waddington's death in the mid sixties and the Ashley Laminates company was wound up in 1972.
This particular Ashley on offer is finished in White with a red interior and fitted with an 1,172 Ashley shell. It is built on a Triumph Herald chassis and powered by a 1275 cc BMC engine. It was imported in Greece from UK in 2005 and has been restored.
In 2006 the car had successfully participated in the 5th Historic Acropolis Rally. Since then is carefully maintained and garaged and ready to use. This pretty and fully exotic roadster will provide its new owner with the looks and style of a much more expensive car. It comes with FIA paper. According to the perigafes is in very good condition and has a beautiful leather upholstery. Kept in a secure garage.
The photo's below were shown on the Coys Auction advert
I emailed George to check that it was his car and his reply confirmed it was, he also mentioned that he had made some changes to the windscreen, wire wheels and had resprayed the body.
It was not until
December 2015
that I saw another photo of the car, this was taken at Coys Classic Car Auction, Athens, Greece.
The auction was on the 14th June 2014 and the 1969 Triumph Ashley Special sold for less than the Coys estimate of
€10,000 - €12,000 but did sell for €8,290
2015
In June 2015 I had an email for Robert Chappell a previous owner from 1992 until 1998 as mentioned above.
He asked if I was interested in some old photos of the Ashley showing the condition it was in when it was bought and some of the
work done on it until he passed it on.
Naturally enought I replied that I was very interested and
would like to add it to this page, a few days later the following photo's arrived.
He asked if I was interested in some old photos of the Ashley showing the condition it was in when it was bought and some of the
work done on it until he passed it on.
Naturally enought I replied that I was very interested and
would like to add it to this page, a few days later the following photo's arrived.
Robert also provided some more details as shown below:
As you can see it originally had a hard top which we removed. We spent a lot of time on the bodywork because of the GRP crazing and had it just about ready for spraying when my son got married.
At which point we sold it on. The chap we sold it to promised to continue with the work which as it is still in circulation I presume he did.
As you can see it originally had a hard top which we removed. We spent a lot of time on the bodywork because of the GRP crazing and had it just about ready for spraying when my son got married.
At which point we sold it on. The chap we sold it to promised to continue with the work which as it is still in circulation I presume he did.
Then in August 2015 I found this series of photo's on a website listed as
Ashley_Brooklands_Weiss
however I have lost the link to it now and cannot relocate it.
You might notice that the 3 photo's at the beginning of this webpage
also appear to have come from the same original source/set of photo's, so my thanks to the photographer.
"Another strange twist to this story"
Then in September 2015 I started chatting to a Trevor Pyman via email
about a passion he had in the 1960/70's of whilst out riding his bicycle about the countryside (as we young lads did in those days).
He would write a log about any rare British specialist cars he saw.
Having found my Ashley websites he contacted me about the
25 Ashley's he had seen and logged on his journeys
and one of them was FVW 6H which he had spotted on
5th January 1970 in Ingatestone, Essex.
Trevor's Log notes:
This car overtook me as I cycled up the A12 Ingatestone, By-Pass heading toward Chelmsford.
Subsequently seen a few more times in the Chelmsford area
the last time being September 1972 in central Chelmsford.
The Ashley 1172 was a RED roadster at the time and was
never to be seen by Trevor again and he
could find no registration details.
"Another strange twist to this story"
Then in September 2015 I started chatting to a Trevor Pyman via email
about a passion he had in the 1960/70's of whilst out riding his bicycle about the countryside (as we young lads did in those days).
He would write a log about any rare British specialist cars he saw.
Having found my Ashley websites he contacted me about the
25 Ashley's he had seen and logged on his journeys
and one of them was FVW 6H which he had spotted on
5th January 1970 in Ingatestone, Essex.
Trevor's Log notes:
This car overtook me as I cycled up the A12 Ingatestone, By-Pass heading toward Chelmsford.
Subsequently seen a few more times in the Chelmsford area
the last time being September 1972 in central Chelmsford.
The Ashley 1172 was a RED roadster at the time and was
never to be seen by Trevor again and he
could find no registration details.
2016
Whilst updating the FSCC Ashley registry to an e-data bank I found a couple of previous contacts about this Ashley dating back to
June 1992
This was when first registered with the FSCC by Robert Chappell,
he noted that the chassis/front & rear suspension and wheels were Triumph Herald and the engine/gearbox an Austin A35
and it was previously owned by Mick Smith.
Robert also provided the following 4 photo's
and in
April 1997 it was in the hands of Andy Winston who
had paid £80.00 for it, without it's hardtop and he was intending
to sell it on.
Then in
August 2019
I had an email from Steve, an Ashley 1172 owner
telling me about another Ashley 1172 that David an acquaintance
of his owned back in the 1970/80's,
Hi Ivor, When I was at the Fairthorpe AGM at Cosford earlier in the year with my Ashley 1172, I got talking to a guy who showed great interest in my car.
It turned out that he was the guy that ran a scrapyard about a mile from where I worked in Wrexham.
I had actually bought bits from the scrapyard in the past, but wasn’t aware that he was an Ashley owner, years earlier. He said would dig out a photo of his car, so we exchanged contact details...
It took several months to arrive and Steve sent it straight on to me,
I have added it to this story as it is an early photo of
Ashley 1172 - FVW 6H,
before being painted White as shown below.
If you have any other information about this
1969 Ashley 1172
Registration No. FVW 6H
(originally registered by the Essex C.C. in September 1969)
now in Greece or any other part of Europe
including the UK
please email me on
[email protected]
or
use the contact page on this site to contact me