Thread: Restoring Cars

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Factory Candy Apple!
That'd be a rare thing. Photo's and a bit of a story please.

Yes please,,, x2

A friend has a much nicer and easier "Austin Healey" project car that could be available for not much more money than that one posted.

The Hillman Minx is the Australian built which has a mixture of Hillman & Humber Vouge parts on them . My brother had on years ago , very nice car & go quite well also with the 1600cc motor.

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Restore it to "In Service".
You could also throw a mattress in the back and camp warmly in Wombat.

Hey Chops

That 1949 LIX Vauxhall is a true 49 with small headlights and parkers inside them,and going by the boot (trunk) it is an imported one very rare here even when new as they were quite dear, as the Australian Assembly vehicles used the short upright boot with drop down lid from the 39-48 series,the Aust 1951 model had the 7" headlights and external parkers the red VW convertible is one of those chopped up Aust versions, did you have a look at the little mini while in Melbourne with Mick? that looked like it just needed the rear hydro-elastic suspension repaired/exchanged,you could always at a nice Ford Zephyr(6cyl) sedan or wagon in Mk2 or a Mk1 sedan,the first UK production vehicle to have McPherson Strut suspension,BUT---that RRC @door did look good

cheers

Originally Posted by UncleHo

did you have a look at the little mini while in Melbourne with Mick? that looked like it just needed the rear hydro-elastic suspension

Well spotted there. It does have hydrolastic suspension. One of the pipes rusted through and sprung a leak. It was then parked and registration lapsed. There is a replacement pipe there.
The owner is keen to move it on to an enthusiast. It even has the original hub caps which I'm told are rather hard to find.

G'day Mick_Marsh

That should be an easy fix then,as there should be somebody in Melbourne that can re-pressurise the system,they run quite high pressure from memory each side linked front to rear, same set up as the Morris 1100 & Austin1800

There is another make to look at "Austin" A30,A40 early Dorset,Devon Somerset,A40 Farina,A70 Hampshire,Hereford, then the mid 50's models A50 A55,and the Morris of the same body style,or "Vauxhall" E series 1952-1957 and later"Vauxhall" PA series 3 piece rear window verticle long oval rear lights,Velox/Cresta 6cyl (a 100MPH car),PB smaller rear lights 1 piece rear window,and the Victor 57-61 smaller body 4cyl, the choice is limitless all simple straight mechanicals.

cheers

some people collect and restore the Little Hillman Imp..rear engine..

Most have rusted out here in Australia..