Beautiful restoration. My father had an A40 utility when we lived in the country. I was about 9 or 10 when we moved to the city and he decide to convert it to a sedan. I helped him and at the same time we rebuilt the engine and gearbox and had the diff reconditioned. I learned car mechanics on that car and it was the best thing ever. I have kept cars going way beyond the time most people would normally replace them. One 1963 Holden I kept for nearly 500,000 miles until someone pranged a Landcruiser into the back of it. These days with all the computers cars are a bit more complex but at least I can generally work out what a problem is before handing it over to a workshop.
My first car was a black 1949 A40. Drove it across Australia and back in 1968 when I was 18. Check the water and oil each day and never gave any trouble apart from both radiator hoses and a set of points. Plod along at 50-55 mph all day and run on the smell of an oily rag. I hope it still survives somewhere, great little car.
This was great fun to watch. My dad had a '49 that he bought at Falvey Imported Cars in Detroit. It was two years old, and had been owned by the wife of a wealthy businessman. She'd had it painted chartreuse, and then evidently grown tired of it and bought a new toy. My dad was over the moon proud of that car and he religiously cleaned it and washed it weekly. He named her Betsie. In '52 we moved west from Michigan to Arizona and we made the trip - dad and mom in the front seat, and my brother, sister, and me in the back. I was but a wee lad of three so I have no recollection of the trip, but I do recall going camping in the mountains outside of Phoenix all piled in our chartreuse Betsie. In '55 we moved back to Michigan and alas, while while having our dinner in a restaurant in Hereford, Texas, Betsie was rear ended by a careless teenage driver, and was a total wreck. Insurance paid for a nice '48 Chevy, which we used to complete the move. Back in Michigan, Dad acquired a couple more A40s. I recall a black one and a grey one, but he never treated those cars like he treated Betsie. Then he bought a '52 green Morris Minor in '57, a much smaller car, which he used as his daily driver, but by then it was too small to be the family car. You did an awesome job on Jinxy - you should be proud.
Quiet, comfortable cars, with lovely interior - specially DASHBOARDS from that era! We used to have one, and went comfortably, (but slowly!) From London to Devon, on holiday! Enjoy yours!
You have done an amazing and thorough job - well done !.I've always had a soft spot for the Devon , my best mate had one of these, a locally registered '51 in Connaught Green , owned at 17 , 50 years ago, bought from the landlord of our local pub for £37.10s.We went out in it on the day he passed his test, 3 days ahead of me passing mine, and met an identical Devon in green coming towards us, it had the consecutive registration number - after flashing the lights and waving - the oncoming driver never even noticed , although the cars were 15 years old then !.Memories of the ' Flying A ' mascot, the warm glow of the instrument lights and the fantastic heater - a great little car with immense character.
I got a 1951 with left hand drive, my dad bought it for $25 in 1969. Drove it for 4 years in high school and delivered newspapers 7 days a week. did a minor valve repair and a new headliner, but other than that it went everywhere and never broke down. When I left for college we sold it for $50 in 1963. Was running well when I said goodbye.
The dreaded lurgi called Rust which never sleeps! A labour of love. Anyone ANYONE who has done this sort is going to swear at some point regardless who they are!!!! Well done, i would think it is in better condition now than when it left the factory new. It has had far more TLC and attention to detail than any car factory would get anywhere near!
Great Job. I worked for the Rover group in all it's guises and finally for BMW. I worked in the protype body shop and made the bodies from scratch. We had wooden models and patterns to work to and some of the panels are quite challenging, even in a shop with all the gear. Blokes like you, are a like armour makers and have a really artistic eye which is a part of the trade that can't be taught. Fantastic job.
the work on this car is amazing, I my self own a 48 a40 Devon and a 53 a40 pickup both as a long-term project car's my Devon is in quite similar shape as yours (not as much poke through rust tho) so its good to see people out there still caring for the Classics car's all these years from then
Terrific rebuild, another one saved, your panel making is brilliant. Had a Devon about 30 years ago, paid £50 for it, green in colour and local registration to us. ( Eastbourne) ended up exporting it to Holland, along with quite a few A30s and 35s some excellent repair panels for these little cars now come from the Dutch, have used some of them on my current rebuild of an A35. Hope you are still enjoying the Devon, of course the real rare one is the 2 door Dorset.
I had a Devon for ten years 1949, Mist Green, JOX 231in fantastic original condition. Two families from new. I had to sell her when I moved, and of all the classics I've owned she's the one I wish I had held on to. Hope she's still alive.
You deserve a row of medals........We had it easy back in the 60's....We had two of them, one was a column change,£55 i think. This was followed by a Somerset for £10 which I ran for a while and then sold it for £15.. The front shock absorbers were a weakness and I used to top them up with gear oil. They also burnt out head gaskets quite often.........I could go on.....Thanks for the video and enjoy your creation.
Great job. Lovely cars. I had one in Auckland New Zealand 40 years ago. No rust. Not a spot on the chrome. No salt on the roads. Had a lovely gear change and clutch. Sweet. Well done. Such a work.
WOW!!! Now that brings back memory's. I was 15 yld [ 43 years ago ] when i did a full engine reconditioning for my first car [the conditions of owning a car said my father ] a 1949 A40 Devon in black just like this 1 .Thank you for sharing this and well done . Drive with pride.
Hi , what a beautiful car , and an excellent resto , you deserve a medal , for bringing it back to life, very well done , may i say keep up the good work . Rob.
Great credit to you and all those involved in the restoration. Another important piece of auto history brought back to life. Thanks a lot for the video.
Fantastic. First car I ever drove after passing my test at 17 was my dad's black 1949 A40 Devon. In the early 1990s it attracted some looks when I drove it to school!
I bought one of these in 1964, from a friend whose father had bought it brand new, having been on a waiting list with the factory. I paid him just £12 and 10 shillings (£12.50). The car ran perfectly until hit by another car and written off in 1965.
I owned a 1950 A 40 fordor sedan;I got it for free fifty years ago in the spring of 1969 when I was a junior in high school.I was 18 at the time.The neighbour who gave it to me got his truck and we chained it up.He drove the truck and I drove the car.I ended up getting it running in a couple of days but had to replace one valve and do a complete valve job on it.As I've told people,it knocked it smoked,but it never died.It still had the original owner's manual to it plus the hand crank.The car came from Canada as I remember and the body was still sound even though the interior was completely shot.
Congratulations on a job well done. Your skill and patience are self-evident, particularly given the total lack of decent facilities... Nb. This model was widely exported and in it's day could be seen all over the world.
Fabulous job, great little car, as soon as soon as i saw your car, i swear i could smell that old car smell. The father of a close friend had one, Long before any of us had a licence he took it for a drive,( without permission) and rolled backwards into a cop car whilst trying to start off uphill at the lights. Fun days. Tony Australia.
That is an amazing restoration, she looks great! Your metal fabrication is excellent. My 1st car was a 1949 black Devon with original valve radio! Bought for £20 did nearly 100K miles in it and sold it for £400! At 3.04, that crescent shaped device is what balances the mechanical rear brakes with the hydraulic fronts (did any other car have this?). It was awkward to adjust but when done gave great braking. The handbrake also applied the rear brakes through the crescent and if adjusted right, would partially apply the front brakes too. I once had to explain this to an MOT tester who was about to fail it because "the front brakes were rubbing"!! Thanks for sharing this video.
Fantastic restoration job, my dad had one of these in grey when I was a child, mid sixties, I used to stand in the front with my little stick on steering wheel copying him as he drove around! My mum and sister had to sit in the back!
Well done mate a true labour of love. This was the first car my dad had in the early 60`s. Very fond memories, the pictures of the dash bring it all back to me, thats all I could see from the back seat, I was about 6 at the time. Thanks for this vid and I hope that you enjoy the car for many a year. Torchy
My favorite car when I was a kid.You could buy a 20 year old one for $25.00 Canadian and the wrecker was full of parts.The front shocks (hydraulic ) were there Achilles tendon. Great vid!!!
Fantastic Job! All your hard work payed off and she looks beautiful! whatever you did, keep on doing it! Wish I had mine now. I loved to crank her over with the starting handle and get it on BoC, tell my GF to switch on the ignition and then fire her up (the car) she was always very impressed. Best wishes from Stewie and JOV 462
Well done had one of these fed up with replacing front shocks filled them up with Hypoid 90 diff oil, no more bouncing the waves,had a few bruised back hands with it jumping out of 3rd gear soon avoided that, make and mend do no money!
That was heck of a restoration. Done with passion not profit. Guess it brought back family memories? I detect the welding was not done by an amateur. Well done.
Our families’ first car. We live in British Columbia and in the years after the war they many thousands across Canada 🇨🇦. We drove “Nellie Belle” through out the province and some western states.
fanstatic well done enjoyed your video some much through out the whole build process....awesome job remembing these vechiles ...in austraila when i was a young child
I’m a Yank and not familiar with a Brit’s point of view, but I agree ☝️ that less music and more dialogue would to me would be vastly superior. I love 💕 old automobiles like a kid 🧒 loves a candy 🍭 store: I know little about the process of restoration. I enjoyed your video, so no criticism but a point of view 🤩.
I always have one big issue with doing a restoration like this,how do you deal with corrosion inside the box section chassis ? Old cars that have been renovated look brilliant on the outside but its that box section that would always worry me.Love what you have done and total admire your dedication to this car.
The chassis was shotblast. A lot of it is either open channel or has open sections that can be inspected and a hammer helps to satisfy that it is sound! all the chassis box sections and sills pillars and doors were shot with an oil based corrosion inhibitor, to replace the layers of grease and oil that the austin used to protect itself!
I have a 1951 Devon and I'm needing sills but can't get them anywhere . I don't have skills needed to make them myself . If you can give me some advise I would be very grateful. Think you have made an amazing job.
Hi David, It depends how bad they are and where you are based. In the UK the Austin Counties car club does list some sill panels. Take a look at austincounties.org.uk, but replacing the entire panel is a big job. I made new ones based on the old on one side, but only replaced the rusty material on the other. The area under the front door in particular is a difficult to shape double curve. The body mounts are welded to the inner seals too. If theses need replacing the chassis gets in the way..... If the rust is patchy I'd use patch panels rather than replace as a whole. If it's where the crome strips mount I'd cut and weld along the shut line and replace the strip with the return edge that goes underneath.
well done , I am starting A40 Austin Countryman project , car has been apart many years but it is all there and very little rust mine is a 1952 Devon type ..........know where one can buy the lower rad hose ? and how about oil filters ? any help would be welcomed
Hi Len, Austin Counties Car Club lists oil filters and lower hoses. On my car I have a conversion kit that allows a Ford Cortina Type canister filter to be fitted. It's a lot easier to fit and the cannisters are easily available. Mine was already on the car when I bought it, but ACC still list the converion kit. They are a good source for your car. The other key source for Austin parts was "Earlpart" who I'd reccommend but unfortunately they went into liquidation earlier this year. Very sad since it was apparently due to Illness and they had been a help to me during my build. I understand their stocks were moved onto a new owner but I have no experience of them.
Full credit to you for your skills & perseverance, but, .... WTF. A four door model? Surely there has been an open top convertible or two door model to be had somewhere. & in the end, after all this effort & expense what do you have? A four door A40 that has no real value in the marketplace. Even when new, these were regarded as a death trap with the steering box bolted ahead of just about everything except the bumper, & with its attached spearing column [yeah, that's what we called them even in the 1950's] ready to impale the driver in even low speed impacts. Yes, I was working on these back in the late '50's Anyway, that's enough bagging your car. Great job, it looks new, but perhaps next time you might choose a car that is worth your obviously high skills & talent.
Open the hood.. show restoration of the engine......Us guys need more power.. It's not about body work it's about mechanics and dirt and grease and oil and carburetters and exhaust smoke and noise and tappets and and etc etc...
Engine rebuild might be soon! I'd replaced the short motor before I started the resto and didn't take any pictures or video. The engine is out at the moment as head gasket failed during the summer. I can try to share the rebuild but I'm not sure how much of it I'll do myself yet!
american gearhead wants video of rebuilding the mill(engine) and tranny. see what happens to Austins over here-- www.mecum.com/lots/LA0217-287276/1947-austin-gasser/ nice worj on the body and frame. have fun.
Beautiful restoration. My father had an A40 utility when we lived in the country. I was about 9 or 10 when we moved to the city and he decide to convert it to a sedan. I helped him and at the same time we rebuilt the engine and gearbox and had the diff reconditioned. I learned car mechanics on that car and it was the best thing ever. I have kept cars going way beyond the time most people would normally replace them. One 1963 Holden I kept for nearly 500,000 miles until someone pranged a Landcruiser into the back of it. These days with all the computers cars are a bit more complex but at least I can generally work out what a problem is before handing it over to a workshop.
We had one of these when i was a toddler in Ireland. Twin tone horn,blue upholstery, semaphore indicators and it pulled a heavy caravan! Amazing car
My first car was a black 1949 A40. Drove it across Australia and back in 1968 when I was 18. Check the water and oil each day and never gave any trouble apart from both radiator hoses and a set of points. Plod along at 50-55 mph all day and run on the smell of an oily rag. I hope it still survives somewhere, great little car.
This was great fun to watch. My dad had a '49 that he bought at Falvey Imported Cars in Detroit. It was two years old, and had been owned by the wife of a wealthy businessman. She'd had it painted chartreuse, and then evidently grown tired of it and bought a new toy. My dad was over the moon proud of that car and he religiously cleaned it and washed it weekly. He named her Betsie.
In '52 we moved west from Michigan to Arizona and we made the trip - dad and mom in the front seat, and my brother, sister, and me in the back. I was but a wee lad of three so I have no recollection of the trip, but I do recall going camping in the mountains outside of Phoenix all piled in our chartreuse Betsie.
In '55 we moved back to Michigan and alas, while while having our dinner in a restaurant in Hereford, Texas, Betsie was rear ended by a careless teenage driver, and was a total wreck. Insurance paid for a nice '48 Chevy, which we used to complete the move.
Back in Michigan, Dad acquired a couple more A40s. I recall a black one and a grey one, but he never treated those cars like he treated Betsie.
Then he bought a '52 green Morris Minor in '57, a much smaller car, which he used as his daily driver, but by then it was too small to be the family car.
You did an awesome job on Jinxy - you should be proud.
Quiet, comfortable cars, with lovely interior - specially DASHBOARDS from that era! We used to have one, and went comfortably, (but slowly!) From London to Devon, on holiday! Enjoy yours!
What patience and persistence - and given that this was done in England, great fortitude to be outside presumably in all weathers. Well done.
You have done an amazing and thorough job - well done !.I've always had a soft spot for the Devon , my best mate had one of these, a locally registered '51 in Connaught Green , owned at 17 , 50 years ago, bought from the landlord of our local pub for £37.10s.We went out in it on the day he passed his test, 3 days ahead of me passing mine, and met an identical Devon in green coming towards us, it had the consecutive registration number - after flashing the lights and waving - the oncoming driver never even noticed , although the cars were 15 years old then !.Memories of the ' Flying A ' mascot, the warm glow of the instrument lights and the fantastic heater - a great little car with immense character.
I got a 1951 with left hand drive, my dad bought it for $25 in 1969. Drove it for 4 years in high school and delivered newspapers 7 days a week. did a minor valve repair and a new headliner, but other than that it went everywhere and never broke down. When I left for college we sold it for $50 in 1963. Was running well when I said goodbye.
The dreaded lurgi called Rust which never sleeps! A labour of love. Anyone ANYONE who has done this sort is going to swear at some point regardless who they are!!!! Well done, i would think it is in better condition now than when it left the factory new. It has had far more TLC and attention to detail than any car factory would get anywhere near!
Great Job. I worked for the Rover group in all it's guises and finally for BMW. I worked in the protype body shop and made the bodies from scratch. We had wooden models and patterns to work to and some of the panels are quite challenging, even in a shop with all the gear. Blokes like you, are a like armour makers and have a really artistic eye which is a part of the trade that can't be taught. Fantastic job.
Thank you, I've seen pictures of the wooden bucks that's another level of skill!
the work on this car is amazing, I my self own a 48 a40 Devon and a 53 a40 pickup both as a long-term project car's my Devon is in quite similar shape as yours (not as much poke through rust tho) so its good to see people out there still caring for the Classics car's all these years from then
Terrific rebuild, another one saved, your panel making is brilliant. Had a Devon about 30 years ago, paid £50 for it, green in colour and local registration to us. ( Eastbourne) ended up exporting it to Holland, along with quite a few A30s and 35s some excellent repair panels for these little cars now come from the Dutch, have used some of them on my current rebuild of an A35. Hope you are still enjoying the Devon, of course the real rare one is the 2 door Dorset.
I had a Devon for ten years 1949, Mist Green, JOX 231in fantastic original condition. Two families from new. I had to sell her when I moved, and of all the classics I've owned she's the one I wish I had held on to. Hope she's still alive.
Great patch panel work, awesome welding. Really glad you saved this little car from the scrappers. You did wonders in that little shop. Well done!
Thanks
Wow! Full credit to your sir for this wonderful labour of love!! You have rescued this car for future generations to enjoy!
You deserve a row of medals........We had it easy back in the 60's....We had two of them, one was a column change,£55 i think. This was followed by a Somerset for £10 which I ran for a while and then sold it for £15.. The front shock absorbers were a weakness and I used to top them up with gear oil. They also burnt out head gaskets quite often.........I could go on.....Thanks for the video and enjoy your creation.
Great job. Lovely cars. I had one in Auckland New Zealand 40 years ago. No rust. Not a spot on the chrome. No salt on the roads. Had a lovely gear change and clutch. Sweet. Well done. Such a work.
One of the very best full restoration video's i've ever seen.....cost no object I presume.....What a superb result.....motoring heritage preserved.
WOW!!! Now that brings back memory's. I was 15 yld [ 43 years ago ] when i did a full engine reconditioning for my first car [the conditions of owning a car said my father ] a 1949 A40 Devon in black just like this 1 .Thank you for sharing this and well done . Drive with pride.
Hi , what a beautiful car , and an excellent resto , you deserve a medal , for bringing it back to life, very well done , may i say keep up the good work . Rob.
Great credit to you and all those involved in the restoration. Another important piece of auto history brought back to life. Thanks a lot for the video.
Reminds me of the Moggy MM (side valve) I found laid up in a barn for 16 years. Great job mate and in those conditions remarkable. Credit to you.
Fantastic. First car I ever drove after passing my test at 17 was my dad's black 1949 A40 Devon. In the early 1990s it attracted some looks when I drove it to school!
I had one of these when I lived in New Zealand, great cars. You've done a fantastic job, especially under the working conditions, well done!
I bought one of these in 1964, from a friend whose father had bought it brand new, having been on a waiting list with the factory. I paid him just £12 and 10 shillings (£12.50). The car ran perfectly until hit by another car and written off in 1965.
I owned a 1950 A 40 fordor sedan;I got it for free fifty years ago in the spring of 1969 when I was a junior in high school.I was 18 at the time.The neighbour who gave it to me got his truck and we chained it up.He drove the truck and I drove the car.I ended up getting it running in a couple of days but had to replace one valve and do a complete valve job on it.As I've told people,it knocked it smoked,but it never died.It still had the original owner's manual to it plus the hand crank.The car came from Canada as I remember and the body was still sound even though the interior was completely shot.
What a great restoration. Looks gorgeous. Well done.
Thank you
@@metalmotorsandmore6356 Most welcome.
Tremendous work. I’ve loved these cars ever since I was in primary school. The Headmaster owned an identical one and polished it every week.
Amazing restoration. I'm restoring a Dorset at present, so I fully appreciate all the work you've put into this car.
Have seen your vids. Good luck - hope it's going well. Not many Dorsets left!
Congratulations on a job well done. Your skill and patience are self-evident, particularly given the total lack of decent facilities...
Nb. This model was widely exported and in it's day could be seen all over the world.
Ah what memories. My first car was an A40 and I can still smell the leather. Great job. Dpoet
Fabulous job, great little car, as soon as soon as i saw your car, i swear i could smell that old car smell. The father of a close friend had one, Long before any of us had a licence he took it for a drive,( without permission) and rolled backwards into a cop car whilst trying to start off uphill at the lights. Fun days. Tony Australia.
It's nice to be reminded of the level of skill left in this country. Well done.
Many thanks
Thank you for saving a little bit of history 🤗
That is an amazing restoration, she looks great! Your metal fabrication is excellent.
My 1st car was a 1949 black Devon with original valve radio! Bought for £20 did nearly 100K miles in it and sold it for £400!
At 3.04, that crescent shaped device is what balances the mechanical rear brakes with the hydraulic fronts (did any other car have this?). It was awkward to adjust but when done gave great braking. The handbrake also applied the rear brakes through the crescent and if adjusted right, would partially apply the front brakes too. I once had to explain this to an MOT tester who was about to fail it because "the front brakes were rubbing"!!
Thanks for sharing this video.
WOW U Guys certainly did a GREAT job RESTORING that A40 Devon Pat yourselves on the back and a BIG one from me >GRAEME from New Zealand
Fantastic restoration job, my dad had one of these in grey when I was a child, mid sixties, I used to stand in the front with my little stick on steering wheel copying him as he drove around! My mum and sister had to sit in the back!
My fathers was also grey, though that was in the 70's!
Superb.....respect to you for restoring a classic vehicle in this way.
Well done mate a true labour of love. This was the first car my dad had in the early 60`s. Very fond memories, the pictures of the dash bring it all back to me, thats all I could see from the back seat, I was about 6 at the time. Thanks for this vid and I hope that you enjoy the car for many a year. Torchy
Similar childhood memories! Thats the reason I bought Jinxy in the first place. Thanks for the comment.
My favorite car when I was a kid.You could buy a 20 year old one for $25.00 Canadian and the wrecker was full of parts.The front shocks (hydraulic ) were there Achilles tendon. Great vid!!!
Love the old Austin Devon, you did a wonderful job
fantastic. My fathers first car when I was a small child. Great memories
Fantastic Job! All your hard work payed off and she looks beautiful! whatever you did, keep on doing it!
Wish I had mine now. I loved to crank her over with the starting handle and get it on BoC, tell my GF to switch on the ignition and then fire her up (the car) she was always very impressed. Best wishes from Stewie and JOV 462
Well done had one of these fed up with replacing front shocks filled them up with Hypoid 90 diff oil, no more bouncing the waves,had a few bruised back hands with it jumping out of 3rd gear soon avoided that, make and mend do no money!
That was heck of a restoration. Done with passion not profit. Guess it brought back family memories? I detect the welding was not done by an amateur. Well done.
Our families’ first car. We live in British Columbia and in the years after the war they many thousands across Canada 🇨🇦. We drove “Nellie Belle” through out the province and some western states.
Well done, great job work you've put into this car.
A truly beautiful labor of love.
Very well done
Thank you
What a wonderful job you have done.
Great job, what I would call a labour of love.
fanstatic well done enjoyed your video some much through out the whole build process....awesome job remembing these vechiles ...in austraila when i was a young child
One of favourite cars .
Fantastic result
Thank you
Well done, great job, especially in those modest working conditions.
Thank you
This car is a real beauty ! I would like to have one of these one day...
You Are A Genius A Good Doctor
Well done I love your little Noddy Car ... great video ..
What a beautiful car...bet she's a real character...
It does have a few quirks!
Great job she turned out beautiful.
Thank you
Grandpa had one of these, new, I think, in sage green? his favourite colour and his last car, v much an Austin man throughout his life
Lovely car very well restored ,do away with the music and tell us all about how you went about the work I'm sure that will get more subscribers
Well done. Agree totally with Ian Spicer.
I’m a Yank and not familiar with a Brit’s point of view, but I agree ☝️ that less music and more dialogue would to
me would be vastly superior. I love 💕 old automobiles like a kid 🧒 loves a candy 🍭 store: I know little about the process of restoration. I enjoyed your video, so no criticism but a point of view 🤩.
AMAZING RESTORATION !!!GOOD JOB!!! I HAVE ONE HERE AT MEXICO ,LOVE MY BRIT CAR!!
An A49 Devon was my first car! Cost £15 in 1966, Insurance was £13, and 15miles to the gallon...
i had one of these , my first car , love it
Most impressive!
Beautiful, well done
Arise Sir Devon. For tireless devotion to automobile preservation.
Super job well done!
Thank you
Well done, true grit!
Many thanks
I always have one big issue with doing a restoration like this,how do you deal with corrosion inside the box section chassis ? Old cars that have been renovated look brilliant on the outside but its that box section that would always worry me.Love what you have done and total admire your dedication to this car.
The chassis was shotblast. A lot of it is either open channel or has open sections that can be inspected and a hammer helps to satisfy that it is sound! all the chassis box sections and sills pillars and doors were shot with an oil based corrosion inhibitor, to replace the layers of grease and oil that the austin used to protect itself!
A very good job!!!
Looks fantastic, does it smell good inside.
Cool
I rather like the music.
I had a A40 Devon of 1948. The engine started always at first try..
rudi774 caraciola the 1951 a40 I have now is exactly the same. Engine pulls really well too.
Blimey !
You wouldn't know where i could get a back window bezel for one of these, would you?
a beautiful restoration of a grand old lady well done but its still bloody ugly
Thank you
So much for salt ice treatment. Mine collapsed the chassis at the front door post line
I have a 1951 Devon and I'm needing sills but can't get them anywhere . I don't have skills needed to make them myself . If you can give me some advise I would be very grateful. Think you have made an amazing job.
Hi David,
It depends how bad they are and where you are based. In the UK the Austin Counties car club does list some sill panels. Take a look at austincounties.org.uk, but replacing the entire panel is a big job. I made new ones based on the old on one side, but only replaced the rusty material on the other. The area under the front door in particular is a difficult to shape double curve. The body mounts are welded to the inner seals too. If theses need replacing the chassis gets in the way.....
If the rust is patchy I'd use patch panels rather than replace as a whole. If it's where the crome strips mount I'd cut and weld along the shut line and replace the strip with the return edge that goes underneath.
Yes:try the Austin Counties Car Club in the UK. They're online.
A Devon is a beautiful thing.
But a Hampshire is even better.
Ouch!
Hi, i recently got myself an A40, working on it day n night.
Please help me locate the Chassis number.
I can't find it anywhere.
Excellent restoration, but the A40 Devon was never a looker. The Pinin Farina A40 was streets ahead in looks.
well done , I am starting A40 Austin Countryman project , car has been apart many years but it is all there and very little rust mine is a 1952 Devon type ..........know where one can buy the lower rad hose ? and how about oil filters ? any help would be welcomed
Hi Len, Austin Counties Car Club lists oil filters and lower hoses. On my car I have a conversion kit that allows a Ford Cortina Type canister filter to be fitted. It's a lot easier to fit and the cannisters are easily available. Mine was already on the car when I bought it, but ACC still list the converion kit. They are a good source for your car. The other key source for Austin parts was "Earlpart" who I'd reccommend but unfortunately they went into liquidation earlier this year. Very sad since it was apparently due to Illness and they had been a help to me during my build. I understand their stocks were moved onto a new owner but I have no experience of them.
Nice job or labour of love. Please no music, tell us what you did.
Thank you. I wasn't planning to make a video when I took the photos, and I do hate the sound of my own voice!
Full credit to you for your skills & perseverance, but, .... WTF. A four door model? Surely there has been an open top convertible or two door model to be had somewhere. & in the end, after all this effort & expense what do you have? A four door A40 that has no real value in the marketplace. Even when new, these were regarded as a death trap with the steering box bolted ahead of just about everything except the bumper, & with its attached spearing column [yeah, that's what we called them even in the 1950's] ready to impale the driver in even low speed impacts. Yes, I was working on these back in the late '50's
Anyway, that's enough bagging your car. Great job, it looks new, but perhaps next time you might choose a car that is worth your obviously high skills & talent.
A friend of mine's brother had one of these, might've been handed down from his father.
I have a lot of questions about a Austin I have if you have time. Would love to talk to you!
A40 Devon The Car of JAFFNA.
Gord mate how could you even attempt that without a decent size shed.
You go with what you got!!!
Come to Sri lanka. Theese cars are still alive.
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my fist car
Was looking forward to seeing a video of it on the road....Disappointed
Well done....😂😂😂😂😎🇨🇬🇧🇬🇧
Fantastic job mate! Get rid of the music and put a running commentary to back up the pictures in it's place.
Hi Know anyone looking for a 49 A40 Panel in need of a resto in the UK????????????? rare one
Open the hood.. show restoration of the engine......Us guys need more power.. It's not about body work it's about mechanics and dirt and grease and oil and carburetters and exhaust smoke and noise and tappets and and etc etc...
Engine rebuild might be soon! I'd replaced the short motor before I started the resto and didn't take any pictures or video. The engine is out at the moment as head gasket failed during the summer. I can try to share the rebuild but I'm not sure how much of it I'll do myself yet!
american gearhead wants video of rebuilding the mill(engine) and tranny. see what happens to Austins over here-- www.mecum.com/lots/LA0217-287276/1947-austin-gasser/
nice worj on the body and frame. have fun.
worj should be work. typig is nor my thang.
A lovely video of all your hard work but TERRIBLE music !