Austin Countryman

[bigstraight6]

This lovely old thing had not run in over 20 years, about an hours work got it running and driving! It's been in the same family from new and is now going to be restored to it's former glory, it was originally used to move home grown produce to markets.....

[Angrydicky]

Love it! There certainly is a lot of lovely Austin crud in your neck of the woods.

[shedvan]

What a lovely old thing! Amazing to think it just* started up again!

[George-Roper]

Hey bs6 have you anymore pictures / inside / engine etc. That looks great

[dollywobbler]

I guess all-out resto is the way to go with this, which is a shame but hard to know where to draw the line in trying to preserve weathering like that without looking all OMG RATLOOK INNIT. Must be a bit of a rarity.

[gricer]

Sod the "patina" - that lovely old thing deserves the finest restoration money can buy.

[Split_Pin]

I love Austins of that era. It will be quite a head turner once its completed.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Wow, that's purty. Old Cornish 'Af' number plate too, so she's not moved too far in her life by looks of it.

Interested to see where this goes. Great find!

[Justin Case]

Another rare A40 restoration project, although not a Countryman, at the Museum :

 

Austin A40 Ice-cream van by geoffp5, on Flickr

 

Not running, mainly due to the lack of an engine but it is moving up the restoration queue