1962 Ashley Sportiva

Registration No. 1781 NK




This Ashley Sportiva came to my attention whilst I was reading the email sent to me by Tim:

Dear Ivor,

My father owned a Red Ashley with Ford engine around 1962, it was in Rugby, Warwickshire.
I have a slide picture and some cine film of it, I can recall him working on it and riding in it, just about.
The registration number was 1781 NK . Do you have any records of it, or if it still survives, I would love to know, maybe the history I have would be interesting to the present owner?

Thanks, Tim

I replied to Tim that his first sentence sounded a lot like my story, as I had a Red Ashley with Ford engine around 1962.

However I checked my records and unfortunately there was no car of that registration known to me.

I checked the DVLA online vehicle records and they also have no record of that registration.
As the DVLA have no record of it normally indicates that it didn't get transferred from paper records to electronic records in the late 1970's, and has not been registered since then,
again, sorry to say much like mine.

It could of course have been off the road for awhile and been re-registered with a different Registration No. or could be in a shed or barn waiting to be discovered, yes they do still survive like that sometimes.

Tim is going to hunt out some photo's and write up some details about
the car for me to add to this webpage so more to come later.

However
If you have any information about this
Ashley Sportiva car in UK or elsewhere
Registration No.
1781 NK

(originally registered by Hertford C.C. in Sept. 1960 to Feb. 1961)

please email me 0n

Ashley.Sportiva@yahoo.com.au


or use the contact page on this site to contact me