And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
A rather forlorn Austin A40 Somerset, but not a convertible (Drop Head Coupe or DHC) rather a more ordinary salon (sedan) as the DHC doors lacked the upper framework.
Vintage would be 1952-1954 era.
Cute but a slug, perhaps 70 mph on a very good day.
The car seems a very long ways from Somerset - guessing east Baltic Sea area or east Scandinavia.
Some background on the A40 Somerset at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_A40_Somerset
It's an Austin A70 Hereford. The small grilles below the headlights give it away. My Dad had one when we lived in what was then Nyasaland (now Malawi). I covered som incredible so-called roads!
Looks like an Austin. Maybe an A40 from the 1940's or 50's.
ReplyDeleteAustin A40 Somerset DHC (Drop Head Coupe). Can't tell the year as several years looked very similar, but prior to 1954.
ReplyDeleteNot a drop head. The front doors of the car in the photo have solid frames, the DHC doesn't.
DeleteSad end for a car for sure.
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Plymouth.
ReplyDeleteA rather forlorn Austin A40 Somerset, but not a convertible (Drop Head Coupe or DHC) rather a more ordinary salon (sedan) as the DHC doors lacked the upper framework.
ReplyDeleteVintage would be 1952-1954 era.
Cute but a slug, perhaps 70 mph on a very good day.
The car seems a very long ways from Somerset - guessing east Baltic Sea area or east Scandinavia.
Some background on the A40 Somerset at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_A40_Somerset
Mossy Oak.
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DeleteLooks like a late 40's early 50's Jaguar with a Hispano Suiza emblem?
ReplyDeleteIt's an Austin A70 Hereford. The small grilles below the headlights give it away. My Dad had one when we lived in what was then Nyasaland (now Malawi). I covered som incredible so-called roads!
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome car to have for an East African childhood. Imagine there are some great stories with your Dad's car.
DeleteDoesn't the Austin A70 Hereford small grills partially continue under a main radiator grill that barely goes lower than the top of the small grill?
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_A70
Would seem it is an A40 Somerset from what we can see though.
Knock the bark off it, clearcoat it, drop in an LS and ya got somethin. :)
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