Austin A35 fuel economy tests.1956

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Also known as Making the most of it, please note due to technical issues at the time of upload, this is a lower resolution copy than normal, the HQ version is on this channel at • Austin A35 fuel econom... ....a ‪@britishpathe‬ production on behalf of the Austin motor company,/BMC ,a • Austin A35 fuel econom... is taken from the factory line ,run in as normal and serviced, then put through fuel economy tests, some good shots of the inside of Longbridge, an excellent film even better if you love the A35. People ask me what makes a classic, in my view it's memory's, the car mum and dad used to take you on holiday in, in the 50s or 60s it would most likely of been either an Austin or Morris, affordable basic transport,.... more information www.aronline.co.uk/cars/austi...
The A30 and A35 are classics that retain a very strong following - and, despite the fact that the Mini and Minor overshadowed the cute car commercially, there are enough fans out there to ensure that it will remain in the classic limelight for some time to come.
Legendary drivers such as Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill and, latterly, James Hunt, have all been found enjoying themselves behind the wheel of the Austin A30 and A35 - with certainly the former two enjoying exploring the car’s handling without going near the brake pedal, whatever the speed a bend is attacked at.
James Hunt, famously the owner of a faithful A35 van enjoyed his, although he was well aware of the car’s dynamic - shall we say - foibles. He said: ‘I can put everything I learnt in motor racing into driving it round the Wandsworth one-way system on a wet Saturday night, blow off all the Ferraris and nobody takes a blind bit of notice.’. .....from aroline.co.uk
Austin A35 owners club. www.austina30a35ownersclub.co...
A30/35 owners talk about their cars. • Austin A30 A35 owner i...
Another film on a similar theme on this channel Mobiloil fuel economy tests • The mobiloil fuel econ...

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@jerrybootneck1736 2 года назад

I was still getting 50mpg from mine and it was 16 years old in the early 70's. Brilliant little car.

@hoppend 2 года назад

Still good fun driving them now :-)

@charlesc.9012 Год назад

@Jack Warner In that test, it was hurdling at 50mph on open road. It must be the fastest seed drill on the planet

@bobheather4279 Год назад

@@hoppend ,

@MrPropanePete Год назад

The A30 and A35 were very popular here in Australia in the 50's, and many were still around right through the 60's. I worked on them regularly when I began my motor mechanic apprenticeship in 1965. Very simple to maintain and I remember specifically that the pedals were tiny and placed very close together.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Yes I remember that about the pedals as I learned to drive in one , very much like the earlier Austin sevens , in fact they where called the new Austin seven.

@MrPropanePete Год назад

@@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 They were popular here too. Dad bought an Austin 7 for ten quid when he came back from the war. There were no new cars available in 1945/1946 and second hand cars were scarce but he had a mate who knew a mate and the deal was done in the local pub over a few beers.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Best way to do a deal , over a few beers.....Fosters no doubt👍 new cars where scarce here in the UK at that time. Export or die was the shout here .

@MrPropanePete Год назад

@@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Actually, very few Australians drink Foster's, it's an export beer. My Dad drank Melbourne Bitter and Carlton Draught.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Well there you go you say you learn something every day 👍

@rogerhudson2814 3 года назад

53 mpg, on BP Super , very good for a petrol car. We lost our frugal sense since then. Great car the A35, made a super van as well.

@rogersmith5167 2 года назад

That is better than my computerised Citroen CI.

@gotham61 2 года назад

The A35 weighed 750 Kg. A comparable modern car like a Ford Fiesta has safety equipment like airbags, ABS brakes, traction control, and reinforced crumple zones, and weighs almost double that. It also has four times the power, double the top speed, and can go from 0-60 in 1/4 the time.

@martinhambleton5076 2 года назад

A35 van, as seen on tv. Wallace and Grommet. MAGNIFICENT!

@consty715 2 года назад

Thanks for spoiling the end

@geoffgreenhalgh3553 2 года назад

My 1st motor was an A35 van. I bought it off a guy who raced motorcycles and transported his bike in it. He would sleep in the back over night.

@jaswmclark Год назад

I had one in Canada. It did not like starting in our winter until I learned to use diesel fuel instead of engine oil in the SU carburetor dashpot; Still it was a great little "puddle jumper" for short trips. I should mention that where I live, 500 miles is considered a short trip.

@fostexfan160 Год назад

LOL.....the vastness of Canada compared to UK. Can you accommodate some Albanians for us please?

@keithammleter3824 Год назад

They were reluctant to start in winter in Australia too. English-made Lucas electrics was the reason.

@johnanderson1388 Год назад

The baby Austin was a very cute car the bonet was smaller than a diner plate abig one we put four big lads in it and went for a mad ride much better than a wooden trolley it was worn out knocked and smoked one in good Nick would be massive fun it was bottle Green I mean asavage bottle Green pity Austin did that bad luck

@keithammleter3824 Год назад

@@Rick-S-6063 : The Morris Minor was alright. But the BMC subsequently came up with the Mini Minor. You dad would not have called that a puddle jumper - because of the placement of the distributor combined with a quirk of how the wheels threw water about, puddles caused Mini engines to suddenly stop. Which was probably good, because the water also entered the tiny drum brakes and stopped them from working, too. When cars all had drum brakes all round, water was a problem, but none were as affected as the Mini.

@jefftodd621 Год назад

@@keithammleter3824 I have a few 1950s Land Rovers; great fun splashing through puddles until you have to stop!!

@Malcolm701 Год назад

I use to be a 'Rover' man having owned 5 of them, but I also owned a A35 for about nine months and it was a great little car- very reliable and economical.

@johnbrereton5229 Год назад

@muadib Nonsense ! Rover were a premier marque known as 'The Poor Mans Rolls Royce' due to their excellent engineering. The Queen owned one and many British Priministers had one as their official car. They even built the worlds first and only jet powered car Jet 1. This car went on to be successfully raced under the BRM name at Le Mans etc. Unfortunately many subsequent owners of Rover, just asset stripped them, including BMW who broke them in two and sold the Land Rover part for more money than they paid for the whole company. They also kept the very successful Mini car and Rovers new mid range car the R30 which they rebranded as the BMW series 1. If Rover had been sold as one company and it's new very successful models kept, it would still be in business today. However, what was left of the company was sold for £10 to a bunch of spives who awarded themselves large pensions from the companies limited funds. Even if they had a desire to save the company without any new models, it was doomed. They just limped on untill 2005, when in a drunken meeting they sold all Rovers assets to a Chinese company, who still manufactures rebadged versions to this day. Fortunately, Rovers subsidiary Land Rover, are still doing very well and plans are afoot to to introduce a Road Rover, could this be the rebirth of Rover cars? I hope so, Rover were far too good a marque to die.

@johnbrereton5229 Год назад

@muadib I'm not the delusional one here ! I leave that to people like you, who judge a marque that they admit that they know nothing about. Whereas I've owned five different Rovers over the years, right up to the present day, so my judgments are based on knowledge and actualy ownership, not hearsay and what your mate told you down the pub. As to football, I leave that to uncouth youths like yourself to salivate over while you talk drunken nonsense. I have far more erudite and worthy passions.

@PedroConejo1939 2 года назад

Wow, impressed. My mother's first car was a dark green A30 2-door. I still remember the day she got it. But bloody hell, I wouldn't want to be overtaking very often, even in the slightly more powerful A35 - especially since people used to like creeping round in darkness with no lights, like there was still a blackout. Also good to see the King's Arms in Dorchester High Street. It's still there and the street looks almost unchanged since then.

@ludo9234 Год назад

Went to the same place with my wife many years back.

@simonjames3845 Год назад

What a lovely piece of film, a real piece of Social History too. My first car was a 1958 A35 which was a reliable little bus.

@Deepthought-42 2 года назад

A delightful little car with fond memories. I never achieved better than 35 mpg but then I was a nutter and didn’t drive at 45 mph! Sliding it in the wet around roundabouts on on its skinny cross ply tyres taught me the basics of car handling and control at relatively safe speeds. I seem to remember oil consumption was about 500 to 1000 miles to the pint even with a newly reconditioned engine. I learned basic car maintenance with it before I “graduated” to an Austin Healey Sprite which had basically the same mechanics.

@hunchanchoc8418 2 года назад

channelling James Hunt. (who had an A35 van as his personal car). Yes - under 20s should be forced to only drive cars with skinny crossplies.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 2 года назад

Interesting in the wet

@rogersmith8339 Год назад

Going round roundabouts sideways was what cross ply tyres were for wasn't it? My favourite car for that was my 66 Humber Sceptre.

@hariowen3840 Год назад

@@rogersmith8339 My Triumph Herald went round corners sideways comfortably, like a speedway bike.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Good old cross-ply tyres wonder why they went out of favour 😏

@skizzysmith1146 Год назад

My dad had one of these, I remember we went on holiday touring around the lake district and then the north west of Scotland. I persuaded dad to let me drive on a remote road, I was 14 at the time. Never crunched a gear, but mum in the back seat had her hands over her eyes. Dad did his own maintenance, came in for a cuppa but got chased out by mum, his greasy overalls spoiling the kitchen cushions! The funny one was when he brought in a very greasy starter motor and was explaining it to me, ignoring the kitchen table cloth! We both got chased out to the garage, and gad to undergo an inspection before being allowed in for lunch. Happy days!

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Wesley Pegden, last of the summer comes to mind here👍

@skizzysmith1146 Год назад

@@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Yes, almost, no newspapers on the floor, and no rock music from the garage! However, dad liked classical, conducting the orchestra with an oily dip stick, leaving a trail of oily spots on the wall.

@hunchanchoc8418 2 года назад

No engine-stop/start, no sequential fuel injection with overrun cut-off, no variable valve timing, no clutch on the dynamo pulley, no thermostatic electric radiator fan, no overdrive 5th gear... ...kinda demonstrates that for today's cars, there's still only a certain fixed amount of energy contained in a cubic centimetre of petrol !

@gotham61 2 года назад

Also, no airbags, no ABS, no electronic stability control, no crumple zones, no seat belts, no door mirrors, no air conditioning, no radio, no touch screen, no power windows, no power steering, no power brakes, no central locking, no remote door locks. Even the heater was an optional extra!

@hunchanchoc8418 2 года назад

@@gotham61 Yes - but but the point is all those things don't contribute to better fuel economy.

@MarkJT1000 2 года назад

@@gotham61 Yeah, all those mod cons and safety features adding weight to the car and reducing the mpg.

@gotham61 2 года назад

@@hunchanchoc8418 That’s my point. An equivalent modern car has to weigh almost twice as much as an A35 just to meet today’s safety requirements.

@hunchanchoc8418 2 года назад

@@gotham61 True. The safety gubbins is an arms race to try to provide a smidge of a chance of survivng a crash with an Audi Q7. Better to remove all the excessively heavy cars: Legislate that the only cars are a modern reworking of the A35 Countryman, still with crossply tyres, but also with an 8 inch spike in the centre of the steering wheel. Give it a tiny modern engine. Then watch everyone actively drive more safely (instead of trusting in 'devices'), and global fuel consumption drastically reduce. Win win win, without electrification.

@Paul-md8de Год назад

Whately Hall Hotel is still there in Banbury , they certainly didn't "slum" it 👍

@nml1877__ Год назад

My mother's first car in the mid 1960's. It was a bit of an old banger by then and often needed the starting handle! 20 years later I worked for a few months on site at Longbridge. If I see one of these whenever classic cars are on display it always chokes me up a bit as childhood memories of my mother come flooding back.

@robertbills4290 2 года назад

I absolutely love these 30 35 models I remember my uncle had one when I was young I would love to own one in chrome trim and black paint just like the Mini it has a face with character

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 2 года назад

I have a couple of short advertising films featuring the A30 variable quality I will upload them soon.

@metricstormtrooper 2 года назад

Tailgating, holding the steering wheel by the spokes and crossing the unbroken centre line. Some magnificent driving there chaps.

@hunchanchoc8418 2 года назад

Of course, driving standards are SO much better these days. In a town I frequently have to go through, red traffic lights and double-yellow-lines apparently do not apply, particularly to a certain demographic.

@awtistiaeth4699 Год назад

Writing on the pad on his lap while driving as well!

@jerelmani Год назад

@@awtistiaeth4699 yes

@turbopokey Год назад

“Tailgating”, yeah, In fuel conservation instances that’s called “drafting”.

@TheBuccy Год назад

Oh shut up .

@jaywalker3087 Год назад

Door hinges on the outside. Brilliant.

@beowulf5982 10 месяцев назад

Fondly known as "The Peanut" i love this car. So much character unlike many of today's cars.

@martinstent5339 Год назад

At 04:50, the RAC itinerary. We always ordered one before a long journey (1950s and 1960s). They were a fantastic help! The Google maps of the 1950s!!

@brianperry 2 года назад

My father used to hire a 35 for two weeks for his annal holiday. we drove all over the south of England in those halcyon days of the fifties, very little traffic... and no road rage. stopping in lay-bys for a 'brew'....

@alangrove4273 Год назад

I taught my wife to drive in an earlier model A30 which I'd bought for 5 quid. On her first lesson, so she could get used to steering the thing, we drove from Selsdon Surrey down to Brighton and back with me with my long legs operating the pedals and changing gears which was very easy to do because it was so small. Haha! After that it spent many a weekend on the skid pan that was at Biggin Hill Airport practicing skid control techniques when nobody was around, because they only taught on it on week days. From memory, I think it might have bee run by the Total Oil Co. At one time I had 3 young blokes squashed in the back seat which really helped the arse end come around after hosing down the track which was great fun and they all thought I was an instructor. Happy memories! oh those were the days.

@marlecmarine5393 Год назад

Brilliant video thank you for screening it. A 1953 Austin A30 was the first car i ever had, my Grandad brought it new from Jenners Garage in Birchington, Kent for £499, it was the more expensive 4 door version. They charged him £12/10s extra for the heater, which was not standard. In 1953 that was a lot of money. He gave it to me in 1971 when could not drive anymore,. It was identical l think to the A35 but it had a smaller 803cc engine with 4 gears on the floor. I drove it until 1985, it passed away and went to the great scrap metal dealer in the sky who gave me £25 towards funeral costs. It was a fabulous littler car to drive and comfy in the back as well. I missed the car so much l went and brought a two door A35 with the massive 948cc engine, which l later swapped it out for a twin carb 1098cc Morris Minor engine which powered it off the speedo....🙂

@alanhindmarch657 2 года назад

My dad had a 4 door A35, we went everywhere in it.

@highdownmartin 2 года назад

Self contained towns with loads of varied shops and a cinema. What a different world

@rogerbarrett9920 2 года назад

Very true and no plastic bags or wrapping to pollute the environment after your weekly shop.

@nickhickson8738 2 года назад

And no tattoos and fatties waddling around the streets.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 2 года назад

And rings though the belly button yuk

@frankmitchell3594 2 года назад

If I remember correctly, I used to get well over 40mpg from mine 50 years ago. That's when petrol was 5/- a gallon.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 2 года назад

Ah yes. I remember my dad having a brainstorm outside our house having just got back from filling up , he never thought it would get to that astronomical price.

@lesliegardner2692 2 года назад

@@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 I did the same thing. I was not pleased! - Ha Ha

@millomweb 2 года назад

I've got some food colouring (orange) in a little bottle. Priced: 1/- ! Used some a couple of months back - first time ! Must have been bought 1968-1970/1 due to the shop label ;)

@frankmitchell3594 2 года назад

@@millomweb and I guess without a 'sell by' date as that hadn't been thought of then!

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 2 года назад

Good point there Frank, I don't remember the old stuff going off like this modern juice.

@alanaitcheson9403 Год назад

I see the tax disk states 1956 the year I was born. Wow! I remember my parents neighbour over the road having an Austin A35 in the 1960s. Thank you for that video.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

And thank you Allen, I hadn't noticed the tax disc👍

@raypurchase801 Год назад

I recall an economy test back in about 1980. It was set up to show how absolutely brilliant the new Metro was. An A35 came first. A Metro was second.

@johnsinclair4111 2 года назад

I had TSR 119 a 1958 example. Amazingly good as long as greasing and brake maintenance was carried out very regularly.

@rogeruk9263 2 года назад

My dad had a A35 van cream coloured from brand new. He worked at BMC lovely van. Good old days.

@grahamsengineering.2532 Год назад

Dad had one of these early 60's. Very popular in Australia.

@larry4789 Год назад

I thing my dad's ended up in Australia

@rumi9005 Год назад

I was 7 years old in 1956. What i enjoyed most about this little video is the snapshot it gives of driving through Britain in the 1950s. Pre-motorways, of course. I remember what that was like (as a young passenger in the rear seat, but still). And I got quite nostalgic watching this. Britain wasn't actually black and white at that time, of course. But on rainy, drizzly days like most of the video, it was pretty close to it.

@terryblackman6217 Год назад

I had an A 30, TXM95. And my father had the A35, WLK39. Good times.

@heronimousbrapson863 2 года назад

I remember a lot of these cars in western Canada in the late 1950's (with left hand drive, of course).

@a.c.4732 Год назад

one of the more enjoyable aspects of this film : not a speed camera in sight ! 😉

@andyhowlett2231 Год назад

Great, I love these old newsreeels etc. If I'm not mistaken, the voice-over is TimTurner who was in 'The Dambusters' and provided the voice in 'The invisible Man' TV series. He also did many of Rank's 'Look at Life' films.

@steven-vn9ui 3 года назад

Shows what can be done with some careful driving by someone with experience and foresight

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 3 года назад

And the true figures too. Not like the diesel emissions fiddle

@AJ-qn6gd Год назад

That and not being stuck bumper to bumper in traffic !

@peter7624 2 года назад

Excellent mpg. On daily ride to work my Morris Traveller (reg JKD 3D) gave 25mpg and up to 40 on a run. A great little car.

@paulheard7480 3 года назад

Brilliant video

@deldirk7123 Год назад

A real gem of a film

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Thank you, I'm pleased you liked it, would you believe it's been up for a year and is only just getting noticed., The views are flying in at the moment 👍

@deldirk7123 Год назад

@@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Perhaps it could be to do with the issue of fuel costs coming to the fore since early 2022, and how the tips could be used with current cars

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

You have a point there, as it's up a fuel economy tests, folks are searching fuel economy and up it pops with the rest of them👍

@Biffo1262 Год назад

I averaged 53mpg too but I did manage a peak of 74mpg on one run. Those were the days. Fuel bill for the week 10 shillings/50p. Mind you I was only earning £17 per week. My mortgage was £13/month. I paid £15 for mine, ran it for two years and sold it for £25. I really wish I'd kept it.

@MartynCharsley Год назад

My mum learned in an A35 with the small rear window. RON 51. My first car was a 1959 model with the full width rear window. VCD 464.

@pauldavies6037 2 года назад

My grandad had a company A35 van it was his pride and joy he polished it every week

@fwqkaw 2 года назад

..and gave the van a good clean. Sry.

@harryjackson4160 Год назад

Great wee van, 850cc motor if I remember correctly, bought a new one, reg: NRM 26F from Edgar's. Returned 45 mpg regularly around roads in Cumbria, only problem I found was front suspension damper seals leaked within 25 K miles. Would still have another.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

I think they used the same or similar dampers on the A40 Farina I had one, same problem

@turnerthemanc Год назад

I was waiting for Harry Enfields "Mr Chumley-Warner" to appear all through that.

@cambs0181 Год назад

Amazing to see how empty the roads were back then.

@georgeengland1699 2 года назад

A lovely car ,one of my favourite,s wish I could get 1 today.

@bigoldgrizzly Год назад

I inherited my Grandfather's A35 he traded in an Austin 7 when he bought it new in the mid fifties. When I got it, it had a full service history and just under 250,000 on the clock ! He never drove over 40 mph and really looked after it, wiping it down and putting a greenhouse heater to dry underneath, if it had been out in the rain. I had it for about 20 years and ran it in the summer months, until I sadly had to sell it...... a very sad day !

@JS-zz2hz Год назад

I feel your pain, we had an old Ford Pop in the family for many years but eventually had to sell that due to storage costs. 30 years later I've got space for 4 cars for free......

@comicmania2008 2 года назад

Lovely to see tyhe old A35 and a quick glimpse of Lincoln just up the road from me. Still looks the same! God, don't fill that poor baby A35 with the new E10 petrol, it'll turn it into a FORD (fell off road dead) over night!

@replevideo6096 2 года назад

Back in the 1960s when I started a new job, we had an American come over to train us on the new process we were hired to operate. He reckoned that back in the states, Ford stood for fix or repair daily.

@tommcguire6472 2 года назад

In the us we also say F##$ed Over Rebuilt Dodge

@tommcguire6472 2 года назад

Fiat = fix it again tont

@tommcguire6472 2 года назад

Tony!!! Damned fat fingers

@stevenvater8720 Год назад

I used to go in my aunts a35, how we all fitted in is a mystery! The flick out arm indicators were a hoot

@AntonioOliveira-xb4ih Год назад

Que saudades!!!! A minha professora de inglês tinha um carro destes, AUSTIN A35, e cinzento, ao que julgo ser a côr primária dos carros BMC

@nicaskey1 Год назад

The RAC inspector and the driver both had six pints in the Kings Arms.

@clivepearce9766 Год назад

My first car in 1965 when I was a young RN sailor in Wemnury was a grey A35 which cost me £44. Loved it.

@damianousley8833 Год назад

Love the bit where the humans refuel at the Kings Arms. Yes you need a meal and a pint to ease the boredom of driving an Austin A35.

@hyena131 Год назад

Damian Ousley With the Austin A35 having a 0-60 time of around 30 seconds you also need a hip flask filled to brim with paint thinner...

@Offshoreorganbuilder Год назад

Excellent. This is how documentaries *should* be! (Notice the age of the people concerned: don't want any muddle-headed youngsters of 30 or 40 here - no-one would take them seriously. Also, note the necessary driving gloves and the scarf. I knew someone who had a handy tip for starting these in freezing weather. He put an 1-bar electric fire under the bonnet for an hour. The car started fine, after that. (Mind you, it did blister the paint on the bonnet. R.I.P. Fred Wilde.)

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

👍👍

@peterjones2761 Год назад

Oh let me go back to them good old days

@robertsmith9810 Год назад

Never drove A35 but as a 18 year old i used to love driving my dad and uncles A60 and A55 pickups of course my first car was a Austin mini happy days with hardly any restrictions ware you drove and Petrol was a few shillings

@magirusdeutzjupiter2234 2 года назад

Fantastic video, thank you .I knew a chap who who had one of these cars back in the 200''s and an Austin 1930's 7. He did all his own servicing, repairs etc, explaining they were so easy to look after doing his own maintenance when required. I think these cars have so much character, personality, charm, and no need to be fast and full of gadgets. I love British classic cars, I plan to get one of these and a post war Armstrong Siddeley sooner or later.

@Kyranoboss Год назад

In order to simulate realistic driving conditions it's important for the RAC testers to stop at the Kings Arms for a few pints

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Yes indeed. Oiling the wheels of industry 😅

@Biffo1262 Год назад

The cills were the things that rotted but they were a simple job to replace. The lever arm shock absorbers were dire. Brake master cylinder under the drivers floor!

@HarryFenton6124 Год назад

My wife just commented that they didn`t have great big fat people sat in cars back then so they used less fuel!

@410142109 Год назад

Loved the drive through Frome Somerset , Bath Road hasn`t changed much apart from the change of shops ,that hill must have been really steep for those cars in 1956!.

@jonathanpardoe8722 Год назад

The "A" Series engine , Leylands finest ! I believe that this little car is even better than my current low mileage Metro with the same engine , and its good to see how reliable the lump was and is without the need for modern variable valve timing , Lambda sensors and aluminium instead of cast iron . You just know that an A series engine whatever the year whatever the mileage will get you where you want to go .

@HarryFenton6124 Год назад

Dad, who was a mechanic, showed me how to lift the engine out using a big timber and a chain in the morning, and replace it in the afternoon with a second hand one and drive it to the pub in the evening.

@Kimdino1 Год назад

The A series was is one of the greatest engines ever built. I had a 1300 Marina. When I got it it was 25 years old and the bores had worn enough to smoke badly when pushed hard. But, even so, throughout the 5 years I had it that car was ultrareliable..Whatever the weather, load or road it would just keep going without a murmur. It was the only car I've had enough confidence to feel that I could go round the world in it. And though it was a small engine lugging around a largish car it never felt underpowered. The A series was a beautiful engine.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Absolutely, Reminds me of my A40 Farina, the engine was so worn the oil pressure would drop when warm, I drove it for years like that , rust got it in the end, also let's not forget that at the time the A series was made some firms where still using sidevalve.

@alangiles2763 Год назад

I love the music they used on these Pathe films - it reminds me of the BBC Light Programme between 6.30 and 9.00 on weekday mornings in the late 1950s

@clareshaughnessy2745 Год назад

Oh, my eldest sister had one of these. It was called little ooj because that was its registration number was

@mylesfinn66 Год назад

Love to hear Matt Berry narrating this

@hullygully1135 Год назад

Nice old car, mine had the trafficators instead of indicators which sometimes needed a bang on the side of the car from them to spring out.

@alandavies55 Год назад

Superb little car, my late wife had one as her own car for 20yrs, ending in in 89, since she was a short rotund woman so it just seemed to fit. I always wanted to paint it red and yellow like Noddy`s little car but she wouldn`t have it. Replaced it with a moggy 1000 which I sold 5yrs ago. These old machines served us well and saved us a fortune, never had a roadside breakdown, and I have only gone on to moderns because health issues have made servicing difficult.

@edwardcat5247 3 года назад

53mpg... dreams are made of that... my A30 guzzler sure as hell doesn't get 53mpg... with a supercharged fully-worked 1098 (130hp), set to "on the rich side" it's lucky to get 15/20mpg. damn...

@gotham61 2 года назад

The A35 had 35 hp, and took over 30 seconds o get to 60 mph.

@hunchanchoc8418 2 года назад

@@gotham61 Which was very fair performance for the 1950s, and a big improvement over the likes of the Morris 8 Series E.

@alanhindmarch4483 Год назад

My Dads first car was a 1957 A35 4 Door, we as a Family of 4 went everywhere in it. I can’t remember my Dad saying he got 50 mpg, more like 40 mph.

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Actually for its time it did everything a family could want, Here's another A35 video you might find interesting m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NTiuY5tdzOo.html

@mattcrooke8321 2 года назад

True miles per gallon, not tested in a lab on a dyno. What a novel idea!

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 2 года назад

They wouldn't do that now it's takes time and effort, stick it on a rolling road for 10,mins. after all time is money

@mattcrooke8321 2 года назад

@@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 exacfly. It’s because they know the real world MPG would expose how the lab testing has fiddled the figures for so long.

@Robert-cu9bm Год назад

But impossible to compare between different models and manufacturers. That's the whole point of a standardised test, not for what you might achieve but for you to have a proper comparison.

@straighttalking2090 Год назад

My mother took me, my brother and his French exchange student for a weeks holiday around Scotland in an A35 van in the 1960s. Two in the front and two in the back. I don't remember much about the scenery apart from when we stopped.

@Chipchase780 2 года назад

My dear old dads Austin did 75 miles to the gallon. Mind you, he let it roll nearly a mile down the hill we lived on before starting it, particularly in the Winter when the engine wouldn’t turn. It would be interesting to follow this exact route again to see what has or hasn’t changed since those simpler days.

@hunchanchoc8418 2 года назад

And that's of crucial importance when hearing folks' anecdotal MPGs! I live on only a mild hill, but from a cold start if I turn downhill and drive 2 miles (NOT coasting) the computer shows I've averaged about 56 MPG, but if I turn uphill and drive 2 miles it shows about 29 MPG in the depths of winter and 35 MPG in the height of summer. Just shows...

@davidbernard7256 2 года назад

Is there a proper word for allowing yr car to roll down a hill? Growing up in London in the 70's I'm sure there was a 'word' for that. I can't remember it. I know in Australia it called coasting.

@Chipchase780 2 года назад

@@hunchanchoc8418 It was like the film ‘flight of the Phoenix’ trying to turn the unwilling engine. My dad would depress the clutch, put it in gear, then when the car had picked up enough momentum near the bottom of the hill let the clutch out with ignition on. The timing had to be right. Then hopefully the motor would be jarred into life..75mpg is of course a huge exaggeration, I was making a joke out of the fact he wasn’t using any fuel on that freewheel run down hill. Clean, properly set points and fresh spark plugs probably would have helped.

@hunchanchoc8418 2 года назад

@@davidbernard7256 Yes, coasting.

@hunchanchoc8418 2 года назад

@@Chipchase780 Nothing much wrong with what he did, anyway - the brakes and steering would work completely the same as if the engine was running (unlike today's cars), so he was saving fuel, sparing the planet from emissions, and saving his battery :-)

@davidyoung9561 2 года назад

When Britain had lots of opportunities and a thriving car industry. Today is different and not in a better sense.

@dougerrohmer Год назад

My mom had an A30 when she got married to my dad. That kept the family going until we were 3 kids, and we upgraded to a 1963 A60 in 1966. I remember being surprised (at the age of 3) that the new car didn't have those little pop out indicator arrows in the door pillars like the old one.

@Matt_from_Florida Год назад

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficators

@dougerrohmer Год назад

@@Matt_from_Florida That's it! They even have a A30!

@kenbradley5035 Год назад

This is how cars should be tested today, none of this bench testing under ideal conditions or an outside road-test with the gaps in the bodywork taped up and lightening the car.

@richardwallinger1683 Год назад

I had an A 35 when i was 18 years old Now 78 yrs old yesterday the 24th November .. .. My A 35 never stood a chance of getting 53 mpg . I was not happy until it was on two wheels . The sills were packed with newspapers and filler .. it was corroded to buggery ..

@peterduxbury927 Год назад

I can relate to your story! I had a Florentine Blue A35 van, manufactured in 1965. I was 20 years old when I purchased the van. Just like yourself, I am now 74, and I owned the van for 2 years. After this short amount of time, the Floor broke completely away from the Inner Sills. I made new sections, but pop-rivets and tar would not fool the MOT Inspection. As I made my last Bank Payment (Hire Purchase), it was scrapped after a very short life. Many cars (not just Austins) suffered the same fate. Poor Body Protection by Car Makers brought an early end to cars in the 60's. Fast starts, I was always breaking the Half-Shafts too! Guess I got 35 to the gallon.

@cornishhh Год назад

I remember a friend's father filling the chassis rails of his Austin Westminster with concrete and undersealing over it to get an MOT.

@andrewcoates6641 Год назад

We share a birthday except for the year ( b.1960), so many happy returns from me to you. My sister so is five years older than I, had an A35 van when she started having to drive to get to work basically her first car, often she would drop me off at school on her way to the laboratory that she worked in at the waterworks for our city.

@kawasaki5187 2 года назад

Great fun, thanks

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 2 года назад

Thank you , this video is very popular just now

@porkscratchings5428 Год назад

My grandfather had one and when my grandmother learnt to drive, she crashed the car in the driveway and hit the house rather hard. There was a little damage to the rear but it still drove fine. If it was a modern car, it would have been totalled. It was built like a tank and lasted a many years. Good car my grandfather said.

@robertdowdall1068 Год назад

Learnt to drive in one of these many years ago

@veloman59 Год назад

I say!! What a jolly little motor car indeed! 😂😂👍

@normanbott 2 года назад

I can still only get roughly the same average speed on any trip ! Not bad I suppose considering the traffic density today. Get 74 + mpg from a diesel Kadjar though. Never had an A35 but was a frequent passenger, lift to work as an apprentice. Sweet little car, ubiquitous pale blue.

@fidelcatsro6948 Год назад

Im going to get one of these cars soon after watching this! 🐱👍🏿

@CB3ROB-CyberBunker Год назад

not keeping distance from a truck... overtaking another one while nearly crashing into oncoming traffic. parking with the tire sidewall against the curb. well done rac :P lol....

@liambrett7681 Год назад

I hired one of them in Edenderry in 1969 to come down to Waterford for a bank holiday weekend

@dessilverson161 Год назад

Brilliant film

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Thank you, glad you liked it

@martinross5521 Год назад

Brilliant film and a great little car - I loved mine, CKX 803, a black A35 from 1965 to 1967. Kept a Primus stove to run inside for warmth when parked up. CO? No worries. No seat belts? No problem 😱

@josephocallaghan3000 Год назад

twer folk like you who started global warmin --- you could have cycled that easy

@martinross5521 Год назад

@@josephocallaghan3000 couldn’t carry three terrified schoolmates on our trips with just a bike. We were amateur planet ***kers back then 🤣

@josephocallaghan3000 Год назад

@@martinross5521 only joking... twer hard times, by eck; you could go tut pictures, and go tut chippy for eel pie and mash, buy a new moleskin jacket, and still have change from a tanner

@karibakid Год назад

Worked in dealer ship in New Zealand great little ca my Uncle had 35 Wagon the took it Australia and then return .the Morris' 1000 had gearbox problems used to sell lots reverse idlers

@highdownmartin 2 года назад

Great overtake at 9.00. I hope that was a dual carriageway!

@chrisb8075 Год назад

Some familiar Dorset roads there, especially Dorchester then Lyme Regis via Chideock. Spookily the tested A35 had to drive along the A35 via Dorchester and Lyme Regis.

@redtomcat1725 Год назад

Great history !!

@joefzd4040 Год назад

We bought a bean around 1975 off a vicar for £80! the vicars' wife took us round the back of the vicarage and opened the double doors and this gleaming, polished and immaculate bean was looking at us. No hesitation in buying it, was like new with red seats and carpets. great cars, I think we got around 45mpg, same as our moggies. Visiting someone on the Dorset coast one day with the worst track in the world our 6 foot 5 hippie mate who was a dead ringer for Rasputin, got out of the car with the seat clutched firmly to his arse, only a couple of clips held them on! Great cars, poor brakes of course, rod operated rear drums.

@larry4789 Год назад

My dad's was 4773E. Had a coming together with a brand new Ford Escort on a narrow road in Scotland, the Escort got the worst of it. My dad reckoned he used to get 29 mpg on his 2 mile drive to work. He replaced it with a 'box' Viva but never forgot 'old Betsie'

@johnsmith-rs2vk Год назад

As Arthur Daley would have said , a nice little runner !

@stevenvater8720 Год назад

Final result very good indeed

@jeffallinson8089 Год назад

Brilliant video, I loved this. My dad had two A35's; both Vans but with rear windows and seats and his first did over 450k trouble free miles.

@andysells6803 Год назад

My dad had the doors nicked off of his one from outside the house back in the early 70s

@johnstringer5359 Год назад

My first car before I had several minis which did not match the A35 fit quality of build. A great little car!

@cornishhh Год назад

I was born in 1958 and came home from the hospital in my parent's A35. UVM 780.

@DeanJuvenal Год назад

However, the Morris "1000" was the all-time winner, Saloon, convertible, van, pickup. In 1972 I drove one to Turkey, around the country's Anatolian dirt roads and back to Lancs without any problems.

@fivish Год назад

Nearly every petrol car I have owned since 1970 has done around 34 mpg. Be it a mk1 1.1L fiesta from 1979 or a 1.25L picanto from 2018, all around 34 mpg. I did hire a corolla hybrid recently which did 68 mpg under my normal driving routine. wow!

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

I have a 1984 escort that uses exactly the same 1.1 engine as your fiesta and that's more or less the mpg I get

@paulreilly3904 Год назад

Wow, you've owned some really interesting and exciting cars eh! So which do you like most, any of those cars or your fridge? Must be hard to choose

@stephanblack4558 Год назад

40 MPH downhill with the wind behind you (Bless)

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

I seem to remember doing 60 four up no problem mind you it took a little while to get there😅

@DJ-uk5mm Год назад

My aunt was still diving hers in the 1980’s!

@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Год назад

Still a few on the road even then, going though the banger stage, no value except to the owner who cherished them, as long as you could find a mechanic who would fix em