Thread: Quizz for Scouse!

An Austin A90 or A50 circa 1955

Is it the A55 Cambridge model ??

I had a '56 Metropolitan back in the early 80's and I'm pretty sure these had the same mechanicals as the car in your photo.

I had a 56 Cambridge A55 but I think it was larger then that one.I hazard a guess at a later model A30 but I've been wrong many times before.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

An Austin A90 or A50 circa 1955

Originally Posted by jerryd

Is it the A55 Cambridge model ??

I had a '56 Metropolitan back in the early 80's and I'm pretty sure these had the same mechanicals as the car in your photo.

Originally Posted by Disco44

I had a 56 Cambridge A55 but I think it was larger then that one.I hazard a guess at a later model A30 but I've been wrong many times before.

How many of you are named Scouse??? ... Well???

You don't make it easy, all I can see is the last six inches of the tray.

Good O'le observant me,,

did they all have REAR quarter vent windows??

Not an A55 Cambridge, they were distincively different. It is an A50, or could be an A90 on closer inspection. They are virtually identical but the A90 was longer to take the six cylinder engine.

All this series A50, A90, A55, A95 were proper rust buckets. They had four speed column shift, with about the greatest range of shifter movement I ever came across. The knob moved damn near from the floor to the roof.

Could it be the posh version known as the "Westminster" ?? I think they had extra goodies like rear arm rests and extra bits of trim here and there.

My Austin Metropolitan's gear linkages were famous for getting tangled up, it was a dreadful car to drive especially round corners, it was frequently leaning on two wheels Luckily mine wasn't a rust bucket as it had been stored for many years in a barn.