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Born in 1950, I grew up with these cars. They had a formidable reputation for durability and reliability.

My dad owned a Wolseley 16/60, then an A60, and my grandad owned an A60. When I was growing up in the seventies, seemed like they were everywhere. I love them, great video.

I've always loved the Peugeot 404 Farina. My dad brought one in '74 and i loved it. Really comfortable and I remember my dad used to chuck it around a fair bit . Seemed to handle really well, nothing like so many of British Farinas despite that they were still imo beautiful cars. Really enjoy the vid,thanks and all the best.

My father had a 1959 A55 Cambridge MK11 Dove Gray with the B engine when I came into this world. He loved his Austin but here in Canada the tin worm really got to it fast and the parts were expensive even then. In 1965 he traded in for a new AMC Rambler Classic 232 in line 6 and auto transmission. The smell of leather was not present in the Rambler when new but in the Cambridge, I have a fond memory of it. Good Video mate. Cheers±

The 1959-61 Cambridges and Oxfords and the 1962 up to 67 or 68 were popular with me here in Canada as they shared common parts! BRING THEM BACK! CHEERS

I had a great run out of my 1964 6-110. Good to see a few survivors!

I've had a '71 16/60 for c. 14 years. Great selection of photos. An uncle, a farming contractor, had one in the '60s.

The VDP and Wossleys are still great looking cars. Wonder what modern versions of these Marks would look like, but we will never know.

My father had a a55 mk2 cambridge, an a40 mk2 then an a60. In later years I had a 15/60 wolseley. Great cars still my favourites of all the cars I've owned over the years.

I like the big tail fins on the Cambridge's and Oxford's. Very stylish, very classy.

@jonathangriffin1120

2 жыл бұрын

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the 'best' fins, i.e. 'pointiest' were on the early Morris and Wolseley Farinas.

@Bulletguy07

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathangriffin1120 I think thats the ones he meant as found on the Morris Oxford series 5. My Dad had one in Clipper blue reg number 650 SVT after which he had a series 6 Oxford reg no. 3560 EH. I preferred the earlier Mark 5 though the body altered very little between the two.....mainly just fins, radiator grill and bumper. If anything this proved to be one of BMC's downfalls in that the designs remained pretty much the same and engine choices extremely limited.

I lost count of how many A60 we banger raced along with a good splattering of Westies

I like the old Austin A30 and A35 . Something endearing about that early bulbous shape

I spent my childhood in these cars. My dad had: Oxford Mk 3 and two Mk 6s, 15/60 and 16/60 Wolseleys, my mate's dad had an A60 and my mother had an A30 and later an A40 Mk 2. A lot of miles covered. When they stopped making them he bought a Triumph 2000 Mk 2 at my insistence and bought a 2nd just before I fled the nest.

A walk down memory lane alright my father owned an Austin A40, and I am surprised at how many are still around. The memorable feature was the indicator lever, working on a timer and watching my father redo the movement of the lever at traffic lights..

My dad had a Morris Oxford. We're from the Caribbean so heavy British Influence. I loved our Morris. Thanks for the video brings back memories

Part of my job as a 16 yr.old baker"s apprentice was to go out on a daily delivery route. Highlight of the day.The delivery car was an Austin 1100 (1968) brand new.The boss (a gent from England) had a rack built in the back to hold bakery trays and the odd wedding cake. Nerve wracking to deliver and set up wedding cakes! CHEERS from HERE!

Ha, I was going to mention the banger racing aspect but you beat me to it. Nice to see so many survivors.

I have very fond memories of the farinas my first car was a austin cambridge 60s 1964 ,back in 1976, I've since had a 1969 wolseley 1300 mk2 a 1959 mg magnette l loved them all but my favourite was the wolseley very smooth to drive ,thank you showing these wonderful old vehicles ,

My Australian A60 attracts admiring looks all the time and I feel proud to own it. Presently having column shift gearbox swapped for floor shift box, can't wait. The Farina styling is always happy looking. 😊

Here, in Argentina, was the Siam Di Tella 1500. Riley 4/68 body and Austin A 60 Cambridge engine. From 1960 until 1965. In 1966, was renamed Riley 1500. Was a very good car.

Those early A40s often had a unique colour - a kind of pale greeny-blue. Never seen it on any other car.

@melb6528

2 жыл бұрын

farina blue it was called and very similar to the blue used on police panda cars in the 70s

Gotta love these old classics!! Great video

Thanks for sharing all these great photographs! I saw many of these models while on holidays in Ireland as a child in the sixties and seventies.

Great selection. My favourites have to be the lovely Wolseley 6/110. I think it rivals the Rover P5B, another of my favourites.

@greatunwashed1856

2 жыл бұрын

The police used those back in the day.

My Wife told me that her Grandfather always drove a Morris Oxford. My Dad was a Rootes man and he had Arrows Minxs but he has light grey over white Austin Cambridge for a few days in the early 1970s and it felt like it was made from cast iron. The rear seat felt so high off the ground but she did make a lovely noise and could lift up her skirts if she had to. My Uncle Jim had an A40 red with a black roof. I thought that it was beautiful. My favourite was the Austin Westminster but they were like hen's teeth were I lived.

Like the fin's on some of these classic cars

My favourite is the Wolseley still used by the Police back then. I have to mention the VDP's such beautiful designed cars. I do remember our City had Hackney Cabs with cream bonnet's, Cambridge or Oxford can't recall but they were In service for many years. I watched a documentary recently on Frank Williams one of his first race prepared cars was an A40, just thought I would throw that in!Thanks for sharing this collection. 👍

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

A40s were much in evidence at the '21 Goodwood Revival too, thanks for watching

Had both the 15/60, and the 4/72, all that wood and leather, I particularly liked the indicator stalk, flashing green light, brilliant. All Police cars back then were Wolseley’s , if you saw that little light in the middle of the radiator at night, you slowed down.

Just love the farina hope to get one soon, brilliant videos keep up the very informative side of your videos👍

@oldclassiccarUK

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Alan, yes those Farinas are really good usable cars, thanks for watching.

Wonderful cars, i have in the seventies and eighties a Austin 1100 Innocenti in Italy: fantastic, and i try now at design a new Farina models for 2022, excuse me for my poor English, but the Austins are amid my favorites car.

Great collection of pics. Grew up with grey A40s - an early mk2 saloon, and a late mk2 Countryman, also a lovely Series 6, beige ‘66 Oxford. Surprising they never did anything with the estates. Bring the fins into line with the post-61 saloons, and change the split rear hatch to a one-piece “lift back”. Even Mk1 Cortina estates had the one piece hatch door. BMC must’ve been short of cash even back then. Guess the Austin Morris merger was the first glimpse of the ultimate downfall ?!

Great photos again. I love the shot of the different rear lights,I’d like to see every different model lined up. Fond memories of Farinas, I must have seen dozens destroyed on the banger racing circuit.There was a time when nearly all the taxis in Halifax were A60 Farinas,strangely always Morris Oxfords,never Austin Cambridges.They were still in service well into the 80’s with the traditional taxi firms,(TG Taxis,Top Cat Taxis) until competition from the private hire cars saw them off,echoes of Carry On Cabby there.My favourite from these would be a 2-tone Wolesley 6/110 with a Webasto roof.It must have cost a fortune for the different body pressings for the badge engineering,it just shows how important brand loyalty was back them. I really enjoy these pictures.

My dad had one Austin Cambridge A60 and two Morris Oxford A60’s Earlier he had a Morris Oxford MO with pop up indicators

A truly great set of vehicles and settings lovely to see I must look for some of my own old photos and send them to you when I worked out how to thank you will be in touch

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks look forward to (hopefully) seeing them, try emailing old photo scans to dodgenut@4onthefloor.co.uk

Mint video I’ve got a 1961 mk 1 Austin a40 that am just restoring at the moment but really nice video thank you.

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

I must get back to my A40 too! thanks for watching

Back in the day I owned a 1964 Oxford .Sky blue with a white roof.

My dad bought our first car in 1965, a maroon Riley 4/68 Farina 3583XI kept it until 1969 when it was more or less scrap. We had travelled to Cork in it from Belfast in 1969, when we stopped at Southern customs the front wing and bumper fell off! Customs man didn't blink, got us into the car park where produced wire coat hangers and he and my dad carried out the repairs and we continued on our holiday 😂 For few years was taken to school by mates dad in a white 1966 Oxford, changed later ton a maroon Landcrab 1800. Uncles, aunts, cousins had so many Farinas over the years including aunt who was a primary headmistress and moved from A35s to series of A40s. First car I bought was a 5 year old Morris 1300, an antelope 1970 model AOI 9678

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

Great stories, thanks for sharing them! :)

@johnkeepin7527

2 жыл бұрын

My dad had a 4/68 from around then until 1971 or 72. It was a grey coloured one - I’ve got a couple of old photos of it. A couple of things I can remember that happened with it: One of them was when something else emerged from a side street on the left and crashed into it, while I was inside; not nice. It had a couple of replacement doors after that. Another one was when it broke down on a long journey with a failed fuel pump (they had SU electric pumps at the rear end, beside the petrol tank, ISTR). It was replaced en route somewhere, so it delayed our journey a bit. Another problem was rust (not uncommon in those days!). I can remember the local garage repairing it by welding in a couple of chunks of sheet steel under the floor to replace the rusted bits. It must have been about 8 years old then.

Had a few of these a good 30 years ago Morris Oxford blue white top CVJ616C Sadly scrapped Austin Cambridge A55 mk2 grey SAK377 Sadly scrapped Austin Cambridge A60 Repainted Black with burgundy stripe LKU 396G Sadly scrapped And finally Morris Oxford black DUB270C POSSIBLY STILL OUT THERE

Like the period photos too.

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, yes it's neat to also see them "back in the day" as well as more recently, thanks for watching

Add the Australian Wolesley 24/80 and Austin Freeway to the list but harder to find photos. Both fitted with a six cylinder 2.4 litre version of the B series motor. An Australia only motor reflecting Australian preference for six cylinder smoothness through more torque and power. A few KZread reviews and images are on KZread.

If it's a ninety- nine 🚕 surely it's followed by a one-ten 🚗 (one-one-oh is just too long) So many, I just can't chose 🥰

I've always preferred the A60 Austin Cambridge cars to the contemporary Mk6 Oxfords, 'though the latter were far more prevalent in my growing up, even if it was the Cambridge that my Uncle John used to have before he got his bright yellow Ford Cortina Mk3. The Cambridge, for my money, was far more refined looking, the Oxford being more agricultural to my tastes - nothing at all wrong with that, just the refinement suited the car more. But I love the Vanden Plas 4 Litre with its Rolls-Royce underpinnings.

At 16:50 that was a vdp 3litre distinguished by the tall fins,one car I love!

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, as I pointed out with the other example of 4 Litre R :) thanks for watching

A presentation I was looking forward to. Love the different badge/trim levels of the big farinas. Wonder how they would have done here in the U.S. I don't recall ever seeing one. Speaking of the Peugeot 404 yes, there is quite a resemblance and I liked them too. Could you do a presentation on them soon? Back to BMCs, I liked the red '65 in a garage because there was a Raleigh Chopper in the foreground. Had one when I was a kid. Great content as always.

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for watching, I've done a vid on French cars before but I don't remember if the 404 made it in (perhaps pickup versions did)

Hi, the question about the VP Princess 3 litre or 4 litre R, it is definately a 3 litre. The 4 litre R had totally different rear lights - Horizontal instead of Vertical. A great line up of Farina Cars - I knew so many people that had various versions of these cars, they were very popular and practical cars. I had a one previous owner 1959 Mk 1 A40 with the Flying A on the bonnet. Drove it to Cornwall and back - 320 miles each way, twice in the early 2000s, but typically it didn't like hills, nor did the traffic built up behind me ! Happy Days :-)

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

Yes momentary brain fade there as I even refer to the rear lights on a rear view of a 4 Litre R :) doh!

I had a 15/60 that appeared in several episodes of the very early Heartbeat tv program. They 'leased' it from me for around twelve months. Back then, and I'm not making this up, I had something like twenty five Farinas. Unfortunately I have to admit to be a criminal too, because I bloody well smashed a lot of them up Banger and Bomber racing. In my defence no-one really considered what a classic these things would become at that time.

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, I cringe when I do see b*nger racing back in the day but at that time, they were just old cars, like perhaps a Mondeo or Laguna would be now I guess, and not everything could be saved.

I was hoping to see a French Farrina…..Peugeot 404. But not English! l had a real ‘69 work horse estate. One still see’s these today in Africa still running.

My first car was an Mini 850 countyman van, later i owned a Moggy 1100 ( it was a bit rough, but ok )

Just a slight correction the Austin/Morris 1100 /1300 range was designed in house by Alex Issigonis , the designation ADO standing for Austin Drawing Office, it was the A40 Farina that was a Farina design. Incidentally the first MK 2 A40's had a black crinkle dashboard with minor differences to the later models and for some reason probably left over stock or something the very early MK's had the 998cc engine too. Really enjoy your site with lots of nostaligia.

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

True but I think Pininfarina had input to the styling side of things, thanks for watching

@Mancozeb100

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, old chap … ADO stood for Amalgamated Design Office ! Often gets confused as Austin…

Just to add to my previous comment I haven't owned a classic car for a good 30 years until last year I acquired a MGB GT 1973 chrome bumper model Which uncannily has my initials and date of birth on the reg number and even more uncannily the engine number bares my exact birth date of 1966 So I think although I was searching for a MGB after 6 months this car found me I haven't even checked the chassis number yet

@oldclassiccarUK

6 ай бұрын

It was meant to be!

As a kid I loved the A60 Cambridges but was overawed by the Magnettes. I drove an A60 in the early 80s and was disappointed how sluggish it seemed and a beast to drive. I think it had a 3 speed gear box, but I'm not sure?

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

AFAIK all the A60s were four-speeders, the running gear in my A55 Mk2 (from an A60) certainly had four

@colinp2238

2 жыл бұрын

@@oldclassiccarUK Probably just my memory is wrong. Loved the A55 too.

A bit off topic (!) … I noticed a change of pronunciation of VdP in this video ?? Plah, rather than Plass ! I know the Plah version was very frequently used in the UK. Heard it used by old BMC guys, though also heard BLMC/Triumph staff pronounce Mitch-elotti rather than Mik-elitti ! Chianti, Key-anti / Chee-anti !!!

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

Well after being advised that it should be Plahhhh not Plasss, I thought I'd best use the former as I used to before starting the hard S. Either way I'll be correct at least part of the time across all the vids :-) thanks for watching

Good vid OCC, but IME, most if not all the Farina designs were terrible rot boxes - and much the same with Michelottis efforts.

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed they weren't immune to the metal moth, although most things at the time were to be fair! thanks for watching

@melb6528

2 жыл бұрын

@@oldclassiccarUK Anyone thinking that it was only BMC/BL stuff that rotted has never seen the rot on Vauxhalls and Fords of the era, and from France, Simca and Renault cars rusted just as well and just as quickly.

@markfiges999

2 жыл бұрын

@@melb6528 True, - especially Renaults, ...........BOTOH maybe I just welded up more Farinas and Michelottis

The earlier cars have bigger tail fins than the later ones, but don't look American like the Ford Zodiac and Vauxhall Cresta.

@oldclassiccarUK

2 жыл бұрын

True, I had a 59 Cambridge with the big fins, a nice old car