Bought it

[crankedup]

At last, after months of deliberation of what I should buy.

Its a Austin 14/4 'Windsor' saloon of 1928 vintage. Its had an interior retrim but otherwise is original, finished in burgandy over black.

The car is not mint but chassis and body is nice and sound except rear mudgaurd has rust, so a little bit of work but nothing serious. Chassis is fine as are mechanicals.

Pick her up next week and looking forward to getting to know her.

[lanciachris]

pics please

[_topcat]

Well done cranked up. sounds great. looking forward to seeing it.

[ettore]

Surely a 12/4?

If so, they are virtually indestructible and formed the basis for the pre-war Austin Taxi`s (happily clocking up seven figure mileages!). My father had a 12/4 for a few years that had been shot-up by a Messerschmitt during the war - it had never been rebuilt and despite the remaining bullet holes in the back it still ran happily enough!

I understand the Vintage Austin register offer decent support. All you need now is a nice sporting vintage seven for a bit of VSCC action!

[ARH]

and about time too. Have you driven it yet? how was that first drive?

[Twincam16]

ettore said:

Surely a 12/4?

'Gumdrop'

When I was a kid, these books (probably the private transport equivalent of Thomas the Tank), led me to be able to properly identify a car - a 1926 Austin 'heavy' 12/4.

As you can imagine, for this bizarre reason, these cars hold a weird sentimental value for me.

Enjoy it.

[crankedup]

OOPPsss, of course its 12/4, slip of the fingers.

Picking her up on Wednesday, have a self drive transporter on hire. Its a 450 mile round trip so to much for a drive home in her. Really looking forward to getting her home.

Post pics up in a couple of weeks.

[Balmoral Green]

[crankedup]

ettore said:

Surely a 12/4? If so, they are virtually indestructible and formed the basis for the pre-war Austin Taxi`s (happily clocking up seven figure mileages!). My father had a 12/4 for a few years that had been shot-up by a Messerschmitt during the war - it had never been rebuilt and despite the remaining bullet holes in the back it still ran happily enough! I understand the Vintage Austin register offer decent support. All you need now is a nice sporting vintage seven for a bit of VSCC action!

Hope the one I've bought remains indistructable, at least for a few more years yet.
I'm in contact with the Vintage Austin club, having seen the website they do seem to offer good support as you mention.

Strangely, the dealer I have purchased my car from has a very nice sporting 7 in his showroom right now
www.blackandwhitecarsbmth.com

[Klaxon]

Hi Crankedup,

I see you're a proud vintage Austin owner. ["Well done that man."]

Perhaps you might be interested in this new website dedicated to Austin 12/4s and 20s called The Vintage Austin. It's run by and enthusiast and there's a good gallery to add a picture of your car if you wish to, and lots of other interesting things.

www.vintageaustin.co.nz

Klaxon.

[tvrgaas]

There was, as usual, a good selection of 12/4's and a few 20hp on the Old Bean Car Club's Daffodil Run at the weekend.

[crankedup]

Thanks for the lead on vintage Austin Klaxon, just off to have a look.

[luxy]

Hi There, Graeme here, webmaster for www.vintageaustin.co.nz
I would welcome any photos or input to the site. I put the site up because there was just nothing on the net for the larger cars, it is developing quite well & hopefully all owners world wide will contribute to it, just after Easter I will be putting up a nice article on an Australian a20
Kind Regards
Graeme

[crankedup]

Excellent site,really interesting stuff, don't know how to post pic's tho either here or in 'vintageaustin'.

[Klaxon]

For "The Vintage Austin" you'll need to send Graeme an email. His email address on the Contact page is "[e-mail]" but you'll need to add .nz to the address because it's in New Zealand. I think he's done this so he doesn't get any unsolicited spam.

[crankedup]

Many thanks.