One Family Owner! 1949 Austin A40 Will It Run Again After Sitting for 24 years
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My grandmother owned one from new to the day she died in 1975. A couple of years ago I met a man with an A40. He let me have a look inside and the smell of the leather upholstery took me back 60 years. Sitting in back seat listening to sound of the diff as we trundled down the road.
Traveled all over northern NSW on the back seat of one of these at blistering 40mph maybe 50 down hill provided there were bends. Brings back a lot memories from the late 50's and early 60's.
That’s awesome, I couldn’t imagine them being extremely comfortable in summer days
@@sickpuppycody 4X40 AC wind down all 4 windows fly along at 40mph. In winter you cut a potato in half and rub it on the inside of the windscreen to demist it
It's always a great day when my favourite Aussies are working on rusty stuff.
60 years ago I learnt to drive in my dad's A40 Somerset, 42 hp!
Well done getting the Devon going again.
There was one of these in front of my step-grandfathers house when I was a teenager and I LOVED IT! I always wanted it so bad but he said it was junk and wouldn't sell it to me.
When he died my stepfather scrapped it! It was still really solid last time I saw it.
That’s a bummer. Makes me sad when old cars are scraped
FPRG has gone full classic english cars, loving every minute
What a cool old thing. Looking forward to more on this. Have a good week. Marc
Cody and Bam, making cars great again.
Looks like a GS3 Devon ,later dash panel and gauges,quarter light windows on the front door,check dot on the TOUGHEN MARK on the glass to determine the year of manufacturing.suspect it’s a 1951.great to see another survivor 😊😊😊
Yes the 49 A40 had square gauges,a different steering wheel and was floor change
@@grantsmith9267 100% right!!!!!
I learned to be a mechanic after owning an Austin A40 for awhile. Every thing about it needed to be repaired
My first car after getting my licence in 1966 was an A40 Devon Ute, same as the one in your owners handbook photo. It had a seized starter motor, been beat up a lot and unreg, I managed to beat the guy down to $30.00, (first year of decimal currency), I was only a second year apprentice, no money, the ute was the same age as me. I got it re rego'd, fitted a junkyard starter, (for a while I just cranked it, until I could justify the cost). That ute took me everywhere, and transported my short circuit speedway Triumph 500 Twin to the track. The A40's life ended when I rolled it racing a mate home from work in 1969. Great memories for me. Congratulations on getting it running they just keep on going.
That was my very first car in my young days they great ole cars it will go 😊
Me old mum had a couple of mint A40's and a an A30 in the early 80's. They were really nicely trimmed in read leather and were heavy little beasts with a massive max 15 Bhp. A30 would not climb the driveway in 1st so it got backed the couple of K's up the hill to the house. Great to see this old A40 run and drive. Well done lads.
Great work lads, looking forward to seeing more of the A40.
Was our family car when I was a baby / toddler. I remember.
As an Aussie kid born Jan 1951 this was my father's first car. At the age of about 10 my father lost his right thumb about 6 months after that dad was trying to restore the motor by new rings bearings and a valve grind. I was sitting in the lounge room and all I could here was dad swearing his head off I decided to go find out what was wrong dad just stated that without having his thumb he was having too much trouble Isaiid that if he cracked the bolts I would pull them out for him, it was my first time working on a car I learnt a lot about cars from that experience, great days.
our next door neighbours daughter had an a 40 she was practicing driving in the back yard she was reversing and backed into the outhouse and nearly knocked it over I could not stop laughing
To Trevor Wenzel
You were good to your dear old Dad!
Friends of mine had A40's. A 1950 ute & a 51 sedan. The sedan was rolled 3 times & the tear doors whi😂stations had been hard to open before were much easier to open. The posit positive lead ha🎉fallen off the battery. Otherwise, they could have driven it away.
We used to use 😂ute to carry a gokart to the Troy Sprint track. One day, we decided to fit 5 young blokes across the seat. One forard, one back. The driver operated the steering wheel and brake & the passenger next to him operated the clutch and gear lever.
The Devon was very comfortable to travel in.
When the ute was 20 years old, it was used to travel from Dubbo to Lightning Ridge, which it did without a hiccup.
It wasn't uncommon for owners to drive around in summer with the bonnet locked slightly ajar to aid engine cooling in summer.
Haha, "when people used to fix their cars" you mean when people HAD to fix their cars!
I bought my wife a 2008 Lancer brand new. We sold it in 2022 with 250,000km. In the entire time we owned it it had 2 flat tyres, I put a stone through the radiator, 2 sets of brakes pads and oil changes. That's literally it! Never needed to put a spanner to it. Opposed to my old VH Commodore with 140,000km on it that needed work almost every weekend tuning something or stopping the other from leaking!
Great stuff guys! I haven't seen one of those since I was in Hobart last. A40 was a top selling car here before the first Holdens arrived in '48.
I’m shocked how good condition this thing is in for it’s ages 👍🏼
This car is just like the one in the miniseries "The Harp in the South". Mrs Delie Stock who ran the local brothel and sly grog shop in Surrey Hills in 1949.
One of my first cars !I had a 49 in 1968.?25 dollar car.CHEERS from Canada
Great work boys, had A30s when I was a 5y old kid . They were the utility model.
Keep up the great work.
Greg STEVENS
GRUBS GARAGE Canberra.
Ready for the Birdsville rally 😂 bloody wicked you crazy buggers 😂
In good running condition, bullet-proof reliable. Cross-ply tyres will be expensive but give much lighter steering than modern radials. You need to faff around with wheel alignment; castor, camber and all that, for radials and steering will be much heavier. Been there, done that! Good luck. Col, NZ
Well you got it going! Brake M/C is under the floor Captinside, like Morris Miner, good luck getting it out!
Awesome, my Dad had heaps of Austin's back in the day, some even got buried 😮😂 supercool Guys, assembled by Holden car body builders, hence why the 1948 FX Holden was similar shape, I'm really looking forward to this ❤🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘
Good work lads, another Austin lives.
That headliner made me laugh. The rest looks all a bit worn or filthy but, the headliner is just chillin up there.
Brilliant revival guys!!!
Always liked the "Flying A" badge these have. Very cool. Good candidate for a restoration.
I agree!
Should definitely find a classic car car meet and take that there
That was great when you found the starter knob
Thanks for sharing guys, I really enjoyed this. Interesting K-Mart battery. We also have K-Mart stores here in NZ, but not sure if they ever sold car batteries. 😊👍
The days when England had a car industry. Things worked and were engineered and designed by humans. Now we have no car industry, and things are designed by computers. Great film guys, Loved it.
This is in such good nick for its age and what its been through that'd it be worth restoring.
The long switch on the top of the dash on the right near the wind screen that ol mate moved to the left and right next to the little light is the after market switch to make the blinkers work as these cars did not come out with blinkers I had the same set up on my FJ Holden .. Treasure that original Q number plate they are rare .... The thin spanner you pulled out of the boot like it's for a big hex head bolt is really for the big nut on the front of the brake master cylinder which will be under the floor drivers side ( same as FJ ) and to get the lid off the tin brake fluid reservoir in the engine bay if its stuck turn it upside down in a dish and soak it for a couple of days in penertrating fluid should loosen lid Hope some of this info helps 👍
Thanks brother
Great to see a survivor car running . If the bulbs are old ones have a look at the stamp an the body , i have some with 20 C P ? Turns out it is candle power !
Well done guys, what a great little car. glad it still runs, a good restoration project, seems to be complete, no important parts missing? Interested to see the remote brake fluid reservoir, i have one of those on my FJ Holden, oil bath air cleaner too!
That is a survivor 👍👍 Who said Lucas electrics are the price of darkness 😱After 75 years they still light up and it still fires up and runs 😎
Good work boys
Herby is a great name. The founder of Austin was Herbert Austin. Mike
Hi Bam Bam and his Bro nice video 📹 and workmanship Paint 🎨 it nice
Used to work on these regularly in the 60’s. We also used to fit A40 radiators to grey motor Holdens to stop them overheating in summer. They held more water than the Holden ones.
Just discovered your channel. It’s great and thanks for giving this car a second chance!
Thanks mate!
Wildwoodbinds where my favourite smoke back then
What a little Beast she's a goer
Great video fellas
Hi Boys, i would like to see you do the Boiled Linseed oil trick to improve the Patina Cheers Davo
Hey guys doing great work like seeing your shows
This car was my first car purchased with my brother in 1957 it was the 49 model. My brother joined the army so I had it to myself for about 5 years. She was pretty gutless but I loved her. I could just about repair anything in her. I had very little cash so it was DIY. If the inside could talk, she would be a best seller. Thanks for the memory guys.😅😅
Bloody young fellas and points!! 🤣
Rotor button 😂
My uncle had a laundry in the 1950s he had a fleet of the A40 Devon panel vans in Durban south Africa 🇿🇦
Good vid thanks
Yeah 👍 hepatitis herb ride's again what a absolute jem of historic motoring could only imagine ripping down a gravel road in the old days with ya mates sinking hot tinnies and being totally reckless 😅
Very cool guys.....
Fantastic video boys ,smiled and cheered along with you at each step. What's the next step for the old girl.
Fragile was the word you were looking for Bam 😂
Yeah buddy just got home and what a way to spend the Arvo cold beer and a new vid aye fellas 😎
Hi! I think you will find this car is a 1952 approx as it has quarter light vents (1949 did not). A 1949 model had the instruments in front of the driver amd no temperature gauge but yours have the instruments are in the centre plus a column change --typical on the later model Devons. May I suggest you look at the electrics like the regulator ,generator and starter motor for a date. All the same you deserve to save it . Another note check the brakes ie the earlier GS2 cars have hydromechanical brakes and the GS3 have a full hydraulic brakes. All the best in with project
Your exploits with the A40 gave me a few laughs.
You did well to get this underpowered car to go again, recall it was a 1250cc, motor same as used in the Austin A40 Somerset & Wolseley 4/44.
It was made the year I was born and I grew up with cars such as this. You took in many british cars as part of our export drive to pay the War Bill. After the war buying a car here was expensive and you might have had to wait before a new car became available on our home market.
I had the opportunity to have an A40 as a first car when I passed my test in 1966 but I'd wanted a Wolseley 6/80 since I was 5 and that became my first car. I cut my mechanical teeth working on cars from the '50's thru to the '80s but these early cars are so fixable as you've shown. We have a few still here in the UK but cars survive much better over your way unless affected by tropical weather of course. This little number would make a good resto or maybe a 'Rod. An MGB motor and box would install quite easily to give dramatic increased performance but I dare say there are options for other makes with more powerful motors for a street rod.
Back in the '50's, I'm not sure which part of Australia, Melbourne probably, there was a guy who famously track-raced a 6/80 Wolseley, MAC 830 was its registration. Think you can still find it on the 'Net.
Great video so Thanks. Keep up the good work!
What a trip back in time! I’ll check out the Mac830
My father-in-law owed a Austin Countryman, then trading it in for a '67 Hillman Gazelle.
Brilliant Herbie wants to live
Herbie Rides Again 😂
that is an insult to herbie
A tip on starting old as this do not use brake cleaner or aero start , its hard on ring piston walls can brake rings and score walls and bore . Use 2 stoke fuel it leaves film on the ring and bore lets ring come round .
First gear is away from you and up. Second is straight down. Third is up halfway, pull it toward you and then up. Forth is straight down from there.
My first car was a '56 A50 which had the same gear shifter.
This was my first car, a countryman station wagon. Second hand in 1964 it cost £40 uk because it burned so much oil I bought it in gallon cans.
Hey, its a scream watching you guys navigate around that super dunger. Pommy cars were hopeless. They used to be dumped in empty fields around where I grew up in Melbourne and you could have them for nothing. One time I took an Austin like yours to school . I was 14 . No one cared if you left it anywhere cos no one knew it was stolen as they were being dumped left right and centre back in the mid 60s.Funny about the starter. I was screaming at the screen but you found it anywy. The gears are basically H pattern but on the column. You pull the gear knob out forward and down for reverse ,its a kind of lockout.
To select reverse gear, the knob on the gear lever pulls out and then press the lever down towards dashboard and then pull the lever back/down towards the seat. If that doesn't work. push the lever forwards and up toward the screen.You mention several times that cars were smaller back in those days, which is not quite right. Small cars were more popular than the bigger cars in the UK probably due to the narrow roads and fuel economy. However, there were plenty of large cars around at the same time, Humber, Jaguar, Armstrong, Daimler, Austin Sherline, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Riley, etc. were all large cars but the cars Britain exported to Australia for some reason were the smaller models, maybe they thought there was a niche in the market in Australia for a small car, however, at the time small cars in Australia were not all that popular; mainly because of the vast distances cars traveled in Australia; small engines were not really suitable for the long distances and that is the reason that the larger American cars were more popular at the time in Australia. Britain tried in later years to get into the Australian car market by exporting the Vauxhall Viva, but that was not accepted very well by the Australian car buyers at the time who still prefered the bigger cars, Ford Mainline, Dodges, Chrislers, etc. Smaller cars are now popular here in this country and have become more acceptable and compact worldwide. Technology has improved so much over the years and we now have many more small cars on the road today. I was born in the UK in 1940 and lived through the time when new cars were hard to come by in the UK as most new cars were exported at the time. If you bought a new car in the late 40s the owner wasn't allowed to re-sell it for 2 years because it could have been sold for double the money it cost the original buyer. There was a waiting list buyers were put on and could wait over a year before getting the vehicle. Plenty of buyers were willing to pay double the money on the black market to get the new car. Great video guys. These old English cars bring back memories for me, my dad's first new car was a 1953 Austin A40 Somerset.
That’s so interesting. Such a good read, I just learnt something. Thank you for sharing
These had Austin pre-B series engine later refined into B series and scaled A and C series was scaled down from the Austin K truck engine which was closely based on the Chevrolet/Bedford Stovebolt 6 truck engine
A beaut of a car
superb thanks for the video
Brocky raced one of them in his early days. Should build a replica.
They did,you will find it on utube.
@@ashleytidd-w9i although his was a 2 door
I believe he raced an Austin A30 with a Holden engine. A smaller car than the A40.
@@PaulinesPastimes Right you are, I don't know Austins very well.
Contact breaker points "pitting". Needs a new condenser. We always changed both back in the old garage/workshop days as a mechanic.
I'm sitting yelling at my computer screen, "Pull on the green button, guys!" The dash and gear lever on the tree was what they put in the later Austin Somerset, (which was my first car in South Africa). The original Devon dash looked like the one in the owners manual. It also had a long floor gear shift.
The tin is WOODBINE Cigarettes. Dad used to smoke them back in the day. Ah, I see you discovered that!
I have never been this early 😳
Love that Shit Thanks Mates
A mechanic used to pull the motors to service, said it was easier and saved time.
Fair dinkum lads ole herb would be chuffed..
TO DAVE HYDE
The BIGGEST point everyone has been MISSING, regarding this car now called HERBIE - is that the man who STARTED the Austin company, was called HERBERT AUSTIN!
I was in Sydney in 77 when whoever it was deposited that 2c coin. Not saying it's unusual a guy was in Sydney, Just I was.
Had to push start the brother in laws; didn't roll very well even with 3 of us pushing, on level road.
you will find the rear brakes are mechanical and front hydraulic. Hydraulic was new back when these were new and were not considered very reliable so these were fitted with mechanical rear brakes as a safety measure.
1st is towards you and down, second forward and up, third is forward and down, reverse is towards you and up
Some “True Aussie Blokes!🤪🤪🤪
I didn't realize that you had k marts in Australia
I didn’t know they where anywhere else 😂
can we get another video on this thing? maybe get it historic rego ready
That'll make a mint hotrod V8 it
Nothing you’ve found in that box should be removed from that beautiful old car it should all remain togeather.
What a little beast, Barra swap??
Barra the world!
😂
My 2nd car in 1968 was one of these. Mixed feelings about that, [in stock form; pretty shitty!]
but they made great Gassers in the USA.
I have an Austin a55 and my + and - is standard configuration so it must have been only for a few years
My very first car paid $90 for it in 1967 on the Gold Coast QLD
are you going to restore her????
Haven't got a clue
Maybe not a lot of power but they were torquey.
It's an Austin Devon GS3 with column change gearbox. That makes it 1951, not 1949.
Would it have been a CKD kit?
And you say poms are stupid
It seems, no matter where in the world you live, if a car has been sitting long enough, it will be invaded by rats. I hate them.
Have you and your husband being smoking to much herbs
Horrible pommie shit boxes. Dad had a black one. Unreliable gutless crap. The poms have been responsible for some of the most hideous garbage to ever hit the roads. Thank FARK Australians eventually saw the light and ditched these turds.
What about the Mini and E Type jag left the rest of the world in it's wake.