XNB 712

This car's origins are unclear. It has Peel aluminium bodywork with its rear end designed to take the Rolls/Bentley rear lights as used on 7080 AC and by Douglas Wilson Spratt on the car which originally bore the registration DWS 97. The fate of the latter car being unknown I wonder whether this was in fact Douglas's Sebring prior to his building the WSMs. No doubt someone will tell me if I am wrong. Tom Coulthard wrote about the car in "Spritely Years":

"In 1968 the car was crashed heavily, while being tested without its bonnet by then owner Jack Scott. It sustained severe frontal damage, so he sold the wreck to his flatmate, one Peter Skellern (not the entertainer). He owned a standard green Frogeye registered XNB 712, to which he transferred the undamaged Sebring bonnet and the alloy coupé and rear end. The resulting concoction (which survives and understandably has noticeable misalignment) was later owned and competed by Frank Tiedeman and David Jordan. In the 1980s it was extensively campaigned with Unipart sponsorship by David and Tony Whitehead and was later owned and raced by Don Hands, who had many family members helping out with his Lightwork Racing Team".

The car was subsequently sold to Japan where it is believed to be today.

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