1960 The LaDawri Conquest Roadster On EBay

Ebay is always a great place to go and dream in.

I have written before about the weird and wonderful that you can find on Ebay. This time its A Home built car Conquest, that sold for $7,750.00 Congrats to the New owner - seems like a steal to me…

From Ebay

The LaDawri Conquest was designed and built by Les A. Dawes of British Columbia, Canada and is recognized as Canada’s first fiberglass sports car. The Conquest was first shown at the Pacific International Exhibition at Vancouver Canada in 1956 as the Cavalier. Original plans were to create a complete sports car for sale and distribution throughout the United States and Canada. The body itself is fiberglass and was designed to take a wheelbase of 100 to 104 inches and a tread of 56 to 58 inches. This covered Corvettes, Thunderbirds, and the like of the day. However, within a year, the car, family, and company moved to Long Beach California where production began and the car debuted on the front cover of Road and Track in July 1957. From this point forward, the car was known as the “Conquest”. LaDawri continued with car production producing both cars and kits from 1957 through 1965 when operations ceased.

The interesting thing to me is the fact that it is a Kit car - as a visual lover of antique cars I am less knowledgeable about the kit culture. It may be that Kit cars, not being Brand names as such are less valuable - but as far as the effort and the initial intention behind the car - I would say that it is added value.

Source: The Garage Blog