Seemed nice enough, especially as it was the better looking 4 headlight model instead of the still good looking JS8 that followed it in production.
Sold for 2,240 GBP also seemed fair enough considering the overall condition.
As the ad said, no structural rust, but I do see the lower door corners have begun to stain through from the devil's worm starting to feed there.
They are well engineered , but made of very thin metal, so can literally be dented with a vigorous pressing of one's thumb. So finding one undented is unlikely.
The reason for the thinness of the metal was to try to keep the wieght down, as that pretty, but very large green house comes at the expense of greater wieght. The measure was but partly successful, as these cars are a bit over wieght for their 49cc engines.
This produces the irony of well engineered, independently suspended product of a Formula One manufacturer, that was one of the slowest in top speed for the entire Sans Permis class.
I've heard that 20 mph is about all that they are good for.
Pity, all that excellent engineering not being propelled to more worthy limits.
I've often wondered how easy it might be to fit one of the more modern two cylinder 22 h.p. units under the seat and just run the belt from that unit's infinitely variable trans to the existent drive pulley on the JS4 , or JS8, as the case could be.
Steve Fisk- are you reading this?
Could be an economical and exciting reconversion for the 13 converted to electric JS8's that sold so cheaply a couple of years ago. Especially when one considers that the superiorly powerful power plants that came in the later model Sans Permis cars can be had quite cheaply. I've seen them advertised for just a couple hundred pounds. Probably because the cars that they came in would be worth so little compared to the cost of repair to their delicate bodies in the event of even a minor collision, or visit from the tin worm, and the engines being of such compact nature that many of them can be so easily stowed in a relatively small space.
Plastic wheel arches are also fragile, hence often found to be missing.
I would sure appreciate it if someone were to offer repros, or at least allow a mold to be made so that they could be properly cast in glass fiber. I need a set of four. Hopefully all four are cast identically, so only one spat would need to be borrowed for service.
Kind of surprised if there isn't any one in a Ligier club somewhere in France who hasn't yet taken up this enterprise, as between the two models that appear to have utilized them, I believe that there were more than 10,000 cars made. So probably thousands of spats needed by now.