AUSTIN A35 1957 MODEL

good afternoon all.
Well I have just embarked out on my new hobby, I'm hoping to restore and run a little old a35, he is of the 1957 vintage making him nearly 60 years old.
I know it's not aircraft related but I'm hoping it will generate some interest from the older members of this forum.
I will post pictures as soon as I take delivery of him, please feel free to contribute to the thread and post any story's and pics of your own, thanks for looking boz

Hi Boz, I look forward to following along. I restored something that contained lots of A35 parts back in the 80's. It is still sat snuggled up in the garage for one day







Cheers
Danny

Nothing wrong restoring old cars but do remember the performance standards in 1957 were much lower, especially the brakes! - however there was little mechanically wrong with the "A" series engine which went on being used in new cars for over 45 years.

that looks like a frog eye sprite back end with mk 2 front

these were the cars around when I started dealing 1st car was an A60 that I bought to resell.My first car was a 10cwt thames van with windows Do you remember the vacuum wipers that stopped up hill and went mad down the other side

i used to buy minivans for£15 with rusty rear subframes and do 2 a week selling them for £65 with new subframes

I cut my teeth on A30/A35 's and Ford Prefects etc.but I don't recall these. Very nice

As I posted in the Cafe, I used to run an Austin A 30 1953.
I aquired the car when I was a self employed plumber under rather strange circumstances .
In was called to a house in Newark, and the lady had a corroded Rad in the kitchen which had started to leak. She asked for a price which I tried to give her a competitive price for a new rad.
She said she couldnt afford the bill, but may have something I might be interested in. Golly, was she ugly and I nearly ran out of the house, as I completely misunderstood her meaning. She said she had a car which she had no further use for , and would I take this as payment. We went into the garage and a sheet was covering the veh. I pealed it off and underneath was the most beautiful A 30 I have ever seen. Absolutely original and highly polished black. I told her it was worth much more than the price I had quoted, but she would have none of it. I got in and it fired up immediately and ran as sweet as a nut. Kept it for 4 yrs, till reluctantly selling it, and have regretted doing that ever since.

Garry

My first motor was an A35, 155HBB was the reg. I wrote it off a couple of months after I bought it in September 1971 when I failed to see a red light......the least said about that, the better!

Looking forward to the thread Boz.

I had a 1957 A35 Reg ROU 644 bought it in 1964 and traded it in for a new Morris 1100 on the road prlce £644.00

I'm probably wrong, but that white sportster at the top looks more like an Austin Healey, rather than a sprog-eyed fright. :evil:

your not wrong Eric its an austin healey sprite but the front id the later mk 2 austin healy as opposed th the frog eye which is what the rear is. They also produced the MG Midget which was the same shape as the front of the one shown .Boz is the front fibreglass?

Nope the rear is glass but doors scuttle and floors are all hand made from steel
Healey made 1 as a prototype for the forthcoming Sprite MKII Midget mkI, this is my replica of that never could get hold of a period plate to finish it off.....

What a fantastic response, in so pleased can wait to get going,
I know you lot won't let me down, and keep me on my.toe,s
Thanks for all the interest, boz

No fiberglass on the car, looks quite good for its age, bought a sealey 150 welder though as I think there will be some panels to replace, I know of at least two so far, boz