Author Topic: Solved: PN #1157 -- Austin A30 Sports, 1953 (Read 1243 times)

pnegyesi · « **on:** September 16, 2018, 08:44:41 AM »

Who built this car and when? What was its donor? A point is waiting for you!

smodmog · « **Reply #1 on:** September 21, 2018, 01:17:29 AM »

DKW based ?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #2 on:** September 21, 2018, 04:51:05 AM »

norberthanke · « **Reply #3 on:** September 21, 2018, 11:15:34 AM »

The number-plate was and is n o t German

pnegyesi · « **Reply #4 on:** September 21, 2018, 11:36:16 AM »

indeed this is not from Germany

pnegyesi · « **Reply #5 on:** September 30, 2018, 02:19:40 AM »

Experts?

tobytwirl · « **Reply #6 on:** September 30, 2018, 06:35:52 AM »

Is that a British trade plate?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #7 on:** September 30, 2018, 06:56:31 AM »

oh, yes

Carnut · « **Reply #8 on:** September 30, 2018, 09:29:48 AM »

Thought it was.
It's a relatively new one as well.
Grille has the Austin ripples, so is there an Austin connection? Engine maybe?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #9 on:** September 30, 2018, 11:49:54 AM »

so far so very good. Keep working on that Austin angle

Let me give you a 24-hour lock for to make it easier

Carnut · « **Reply #10 on:** October 01, 2018, 11:46:09 AM »

Thanks but despite spending almost the entire day Googling, using every word I can possibly think of to describe this car, nothing at all has come up..
Is is anything to do with the fifties Jensen-built Austin 40 Sports? Or is it a much later evocation of a fifties-style roadster?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #11 on:** October 01, 2018, 12:05:22 PM »

It has nothing to do with the A40. But it is from the fifties.

Reluctantly unlocked

Carnut · « **Reply #12 on:** October 01, 2018, 12:36:32 PM »

Was it actually an Austin product or could it have been something to do with Rochdale?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #13 on:** October 01, 2018, 01:13:02 PM »

It was an Austin product

D-type · « **Reply #14 on:** October 01, 2018, 02:21:01 PM »

Is it an early prototype for what became the Austin-Healey Sprite.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #15 on:** October 01, 2018, 03:09:28 PM »

Carnut · « **Reply #16 on:** October 01, 2018, 03:26:34 PM »

1958 A40-based?

D-type · « **Reply #17 on:** October 01, 2018, 03:28:31 PM »

Was it earlier? A projected Austin A90 Sports to complement the A40 Sports but dropped in favour of the Austin-Healey 100?

max · « **Reply #18 on:** October 01, 2018, 05:39:04 PM »

GRP-bodied A35?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #19 on:** October 02, 2018, 07:01:37 AM »

earlier than 1958, and GRP-bodied. Sports is part of the name. So I am curious who will be the first to find it

Carnut · « **Reply #20 on:** October 02, 2018, 09:08:30 AM »

Thanks.
I've Googled every possible combination of Austin, Sports, Roadster, Convertible, 2-seater, A30, A35, A40, A50, A55, A90, A100, A110, 2-seat, 2-seater etc etc etc and nothing at all has come up resembling this car. So it will have to be a matter of guesswork.

How about Austin Sports Roadster? Or does it contain an Austin model number like A35?
Is your picture actually availble on the Internet or is it from a magazine?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #21 on:** October 02, 2018, 10:42:10 AM »

The info is from a certain museum

But then I found a book which features this photo. And that part of the book is on the internet.
It is based on one of the models you listed

And it was an in-house job

Carnut · « **Reply #22 on:** October 02, 2018, 12:27:56 PM »

I'm not entirely surprised it's based on one of the models I listed since I listed all Austin's cars.. (or I meant to but I called the A105 the A100, which was a mistake).
There was the A40 Sports from the early 1950s, a fairly inoffensive little car based on the Austin Somerset and made for BMC by Jensen. Is your car a proposal to update this, a sort-of much uglier A40 Sport Mk2?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #23 on:** October 02, 2018, 03:34:57 PM »

no, not A40 based

barrett · « **Reply #24 on:** October 02, 2018, 05:17:56 PM »

This is the Austin A30 Sports from 1953, designed by Dick Burzi and built in grp over a tubular spaceframe. Mechanically it was standard A30.

I knew the car but couldn't remember the exact name. I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be much info about it online.

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Author Topic: Solved: PN #1157 -- Austin A30 Sports, 1953 (Read 1243 times)