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it wasnt written off !! King went and saw it !! It was immaculate !!
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Number 0001 is left hand drive and is owned not by Frank Williams but by Williams Grand Grix Engineering. It has 22 kilometres on the clock. It has hardly been driven, except by me
. It is stored in the Williams factory in Oxfordshire, there are pics of it on this forum if you do a search. The good looking guy sitting in the car is me.0002 is my car with 18k miles on the clock. It is the first RHD production example. It is in as good a condition as 0001. It is featured in next months EVO mag as one of their favourite cars from the last 10 years. It will appear on the cover. The link below is the preview of the cover shot:
http://www.p1woc.co.uk/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=1680&highlighthttp://www.p1woc.co.uk/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=1680&highlight=
The car that was written off was the first prototype car. Un unnumbered car that was really a brand new 16V with all the Williams bits strapped onto it. Apparently the story goes that the car was fine until someone randomy suggested that they try a different type of tyre on the car. The slapped F1 eagles on and it crashed.
To be honest i do not see any more collectablity to owning 400 over 345 or 239. The milage means that the car is special, however deterioration on these cars is age related more than milage related. Is it worth 10k? Maybe, but if it is then 0002 is worth 20k. The numbers you want are 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004, 0005 - 10. Number 0006 was on trader about 2 weeks ago for 3.2k. If i wanted a Williams i would have that over 0400, even if the condition was worse and restore it.
personally id have the last one if i had he choice
as for it being worth 10k?? lol
doubt it
and as for mileage.....well we all know that the speedo can be altered innit.....think i remember a revue of the willy(no.2 i believe) where the speedo wasnt workin.............maybe to keep the mileage down rather than an actual fault
400 isnt the last one. Numbers go into thousands
just register, it only takes 2 mins
March. Bought it from a family friend who owned a Renault garage. It was an ex Renault display car until 1997 and was in the Renault UK showroom apparently almost completely unused.
apparently........altho a lot of the mag features on the release of the willy were indeed mag articles on williams no2 *(well quite a lot of em anyway)
so it may only have low miles......but as said b4 some mags complained of speedo not workin.....and
deals on wheels , driven etc all in no.2
thrashed to fukkin fuk
a lot worse than any other
imo
only the 5 willys that viz had as company cars will prob get treated worse than no.2......as they did a lot of mag shoots also......journos always thrash the tits out of em , even if hey cant drive
and 400 was the last rhd model....so worth prob more than no.2...cos its actiually a later model
Bloody weird all this production run stuff and dont think any1 got to the bottom of it. Could they have all been buillt and then numbers put on? As it seems weird that 001 is LHD and then 002 RHD and if 003 is in France LHD or imported RHD?
And 409 on Autotrader makes there more than 400 RHD unless a sothers have said some earlies were LHD or over 400 for other RHD countries.
Must admit 002 would be the oldest, most desirable if 1st RHD but then it is just a number, like 400 is and is the 1st or last of the production line worth most. Down to the buyer at the end of the day.
Prototype car obviously crashed on the Michelins it was designed on. Although funny the 001 at Williams is shod with Pirrelis.
The CCC article on the Cliosport homepage tested #103 - This mustve been another press car - I assume they had a few!
Oh and 400 isnt the last RHD model.. there was a RHD number later than 400 (about 419?) advertised quite recently - the RHD cars clearly werent sequentially numbered, the techs were probably making LHD and RHD cars at the same time, and just whacking the plates on as they went..
all this about there being 400 numbered rhd, uk cars seems to be weird !
if number 409 is on autotrader & some one on here had number 400 and some thing, then there arent only 400 williams (im not talking about willy 2&3s)!!
i know willy 2 & 3 dont have a numbered plack (spelling)
also i read on here that the numbers for a willy 1, go into the thousands, but they are lhd !
so whats going on then !!
yeah the willy1 was a production run of 2500 i believe......400 of those being rhd
i could be wrong tho, but thats what all the mag features etc at the time (and since) said at its release
but then again who knows?????
its easy enuff to make a brass plaque innit n stamp some no.s on.........maybe a looky liky/wannabe maybe the real mcoy
only way to tell really is to get a full list of evry numbered 1 sold from reno,rhd, and work from there, ringin all owners n strikin off the write offs,of which therel be quite a few i reckon
im fairly certain 0003 if LHD, as i know who owns it. I have contacted Renault about the numbering and will inform when i know more.
Like i said mate, best of the best there. They didnt invite the Clio because they liked the colour.
hahahahah
best of the best my fukkin arse
lol
mine wasnt there at all mate
like i said ......shame they went for the earliest numbered willy not the 1 that epitomises wot the willy was made for lol.........well on the road at least, not comparing mine with the countless willys on the rally circuit,(seeing as tho thats y they were made in the 1st place)
i.e THE 1 IN FRONT
lol......but i dont ned national recognition in a mag for ppl to know that, those in the know know who has the willy to beat hehe
There were officially 400 RHD examples of the Williams, not necessarily being numbers 0002 to 0401 (as weve seen).
Most of the LHD press cars were numbered less than 400, so there have to be some RHD cars numbered over 400!
Mines No.0123. Doesnt add any monetary value as far as Im aware, but its nice to have a catchy number
What about we see who can get the most free stuff / days out using thier Williams as a bargaining tool.
and the point in that would be?????????????
i bought my car cos i enjoy drivin it............not jus to look at it lol
the whole ethos of a williams is as a drivers car not a museum piece
if u want to pootle around in it at 30 mph or woteva then fair dos u paid ur money etc.
i like to see wot mine is capable of and enjoy trying to find its limits.....like most williams owners......and to say above comment seems to show how desperately you need the attention of others.......u must have a very sad life if thats the reason behind buying it......
