Prodrive to restore works and rally cars back to their former glory

Prodrive is seeing a growing demand for its historic race and rally cars and has launched Prodrive Legends, a new operation dedicated to the authentication, restoration and support of these cars.

The creation of Prodrive Legends is a direct response to the significant rise in requests from vehicle owners to verify the provenance and then restore race and rally cars that Prodrive has constructed over the last three decades.

There is also an increasing number of opportunities to race historic competition cars and a dramatic rise in their values, especially for vehicles that have won high-profile events, fuelling the market for historic cars.

Since its formation in 1984, Prodrive has built more than 1,100 race and rally cars, from the first Porsche 911 SC RS to the latest Aston Martin Vantage GT cars. These cars have won titles across a range of motorsport disciplines, from World Rally titles for Subaru with Colin McRae, Richard Burns and Petter Solberg, to world sports car and Le Mans titles with Aston Martin and Ferrari; and British Touring Car Championships with BMW and Ford.

The programme, which only covers Prodrive vehicles, includes a fixed price authentication service that will verify whether a chassis is a genuine Prodrive car, factory specification engine rebuilds in Prodrive's new Powertrain Development Centre, and whole-vehicle work from servicing and race preparation to ground-up restorations to the original Prodrive specification.

All restoration work, including chassis, engine, transmission and bodyshell preparation, is carried out in-house at the company's world-class engineering facility in Banbury.