On Oct 30, 11:26am, Garry Archer wrote:
} Subject: Re: Austins
I may have blowin it on the A35 (small car) engine size- but it was
8xx any how.
} Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdln.spd.hp.com> replies:
} > Earlier A40s had a 1250cc engine related to the BMC-B engine.
} The 1952 Austin A40 Somerset, which had the same rounded styling as the
} 1951 A30 and 1956 A35, had the 948cc and 1098cc engines. It seems there
} was also an A40 Somerset drop head coupe. This may have had a 1200cc engine.
ANd other lineage stuff. We're getting close- The original 1200 Austin engine
was based on a chevy truck engine and used till around '52:
} There were also the 1947 A40 Dorset and 1947 A40 Devon saloons and a 1950
} A40 Sports (roadster) and these all had the 1200cc engine too.
As well as the A40 pickup, Van, and Countryman Van (window van).
A friend has a van. 2 main bearing engine, underpowered, poor steering
and brakes, super low rear end ratio. Nice body. I'd like to
put it on a modern truck chassis, and make a tow/family vehicle out
of it.
This 1200 was the base for a new design, know today as the B-series
which started as 1200, then 15/1600, and 1800, and even had a Disel
version.
} And then there was the completely new (in 1958) Austin A40 Farina
} which had 948cc in Mk I form and 1098cc in Mk II form after 1962
Using the A-series engines.
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