The Truth about The Williams

[king.stromba]

I should be a detective. Ok lots of phone calls later and i now have the definitive story of Williams 0001 and why stories of it being written off occured (this comes from someone who was in marketing at Renault during the production of the Williams models).

The Williams prototype WAS written off on film. It was not 0001, but had a prototype model number. The film is available and i am currently trying to obtain it.

Williams 0001 is left hand drive and was presented to Frank Williams in 1993. It is full spec left hand drive.

Number 0003 is possibly owned by Bernard Dudot, who is a big man at Renault in France. He definately had a low number, and 0003 is the most likely. Not sure if it was right hand drive.

Number 0004 was owned by a Renault dealer in Liverpool. I have his name and will try to contact him.

My contact is also said it was possble to locate 0005.

Whos the Daddy?

 

[aaronc]

Good work, interesting stuff.

 

[Dean]

what number is your williams?

didnt craggy on here write a willy off, when he was 20 or something, i red it on saxosc

 

[Si_5]

Nice one Fela, bery interesting read

 

[king.stromba]

mine is 0002

 

[Illusion]

Nice work son, keep us posted

 

[adiclio16v]

craggy crashed his willy2 when he first bought it

he fixed it and is now owned by 2live as well as his willy1

adi

 

[aaronc]

................So i was right then.......there were two willy 0001s? one LHD and one RHD?

 

[dj_sonic_uk]

thats a good effort- keep us posted!

 

[adiclio16v]

why not get columbo on the case hes good at solving mysteries

or indiana jones he found the holy grail so a couple of willys must be easy

but dont get jessica fletcher as good as she is at solving murder mysteries evry time she goes somewhere some poor b*****d dies

adi

 

[Adams_16v]

lol

 

[cat171]

lol@ adi

good work king,s keep uo to date !

 

[Rorrie]

youve got 0002, thats kinda cool, who originally owned that one?

 

[White16valver]

Yeah, avoid that Jessica Fletcher!

Think Stromba should set up the definitive Williams site!

 

[VoRN-182]

Quote: Originally posted by aaronc on 31 August 2003

................So i was right then.......there were two willy 0001s? one LHD and one RHD?

No you wernt right, he never said that.

 

[king.stromba]

Mine was owned by Renault UK for 3 years as a show piece. It was registered in 1997 with 800 miles on the clock. The guy who bought it owned a Renault garage and he ran it to 17,000 miles, and thats when i bought it this year.

 

[Rorrie]

hope you don;t mind me asking, but how much do you pay for a peice of renault history? - if you don;t want to say, dont worry but was it considerable?

 

[aaronc]

Quote: Originally posted by VoRN-182 on 31 August 2003

Quote: Originally posted by aaronc on 31 August 2003

................So i was right then.......there were two willy 0001s? one LHD and one RHD?

No you wernt right, he never said that.

Well it looks like from reports that their were 2 willy 0001s, one written off which was a prototype 0001 and the LHD 0001

 

[king.stromba]

The prototype didnt have a chassis number. It wasnt 0001. It just had a prototype number. And it wasnt off the production line, so to speak, so wasnt chassis number 0001.

 

[king.stromba]

A fair amount. Im selling her for around 10 odd thousand, so you can probably guess what i paid from that.

 

[VoRN-182]

I reckon about 10 odd thousand??lol

 

[king.stromba]

 

[Fatherted]

ahhhhhhhh "History in the making" !!!!! well done......make sure you get that film !!!

 

[Nick Read]

Good work mate. See if you can find out why Ive got the only RHD import valver in the UK then!

 

[king.stromba]

Yeah i think they made that one especially for you Nick