It's hard to express how deeply I love a car that has its original bodywork, and interior. If it runs, steers, and stops good, that's more than good enough for me. There's just something about an almost fully original car.
I have a Standard flying 12 from 1938. Daily driver- super slick 4 speed box. Same sort of condition but I am just having the seats retrimmed as there is more stuffing on the outside than the inside. I have done 2 x 1000mile tours around France in recent years and I love it.
@@g-r-a-e-m-e- it shows about 65k but no idea if it has been round the clock. It is even better now the seats are done, really comfy. Everything still works too, including the wind up clock. Built like a tank
@idriveaclassic pretty good. I've owned the '39 for 20 years and it came with lots of mechanical parts. They are very rare over here though.. the Standard club over there is excellent help too. I'm feeling spoilt with your videos lately, I was a long term owner of a 51 MM series Minor and would love another 1000 model, loved your video and answers to those who criticise them, but I also bought a Jowett Javelin to finish restoring a few weeks before your video on them and now this Standard video too.. love the channel Steph!
My Great Uncle Arthur had one these and being a successful greengrocer, also had an Austin 12 at the same time which was only to be used only on Sundays. The Standard normally took my Great Aunt Annie, my parents and myself to the seafront at Weston Super Mare where he parked it proudly outside the Winter Gardens whilst we had afternoon tea! His was gleaming black with brown leather and he kept it until the early 1960’s but it was lost decades ago of course. Meanwhile my Uncle in London had the very rare Standard Flying 16 V8 which was very special but cost a fortune to run…12-15mpg at best…now that would be one to test Steff!!! 😃😃😃😃
As an American, this is so cool. It is tiny (and adorable) compared so American cars of the same years. With that pretty dark blue paint, it must have been quite the looker in 1939.❤
Love the way this has been preserved as original. This will bring back memories for students at university around 1960 because they all drove cars of this era in this condition.
I drove one of these to university in the early 1980's in Australia. The cable brakes were hopeless and trying to get the alloy head off the steel studded iron block was a nightmare. Overly complex front suspension no better in practice than the beam axled Morris 8 I had after the Standard. Good memories though.
What an adorable car. The condition it is in adds a character and charm that would be missing if it was mint. Full credit to the owner. As long as the condition is managed I'm all for it.
Charming little car - and SO nice that the current owner kept the "patina" on it, rather than turn it into a showpiece that everybody's afraid to touch! (Plenty of those cars out there, to be sure.) One thing I really got a kick out of: the gauges made by Smiths. Same maker of the gauges in my 1977 Triumph TR7! And of course, as a Triumph Guy, I appreciate Standard's heritage it reviving the Triumph after the War. Sir John Black was a fascinating character, too! (We can thank his being miffed at the success of the Jaguar XK-120 for prompting his decision to revive Triumph.)
We had a convertible when I was young. We towed a trailer with it and went on many camping trips in Devon and Cornwall with it KVX 808 was a great car. Sold in 1960 and replaced with a 105 E Anglia .. Great video Stef.
My first car bought for me by my Dad secondhand in 1961 - on the first day I reversed it down our drive across the pavement, then the road and into the hedge on the far side - cable brakes didn't work in reverse and never did. Easily carried seven mates squashed in.Would have preferred a Morris 8.
Just Love the car!!! It has way more charm and style then the boxes we drive today. The engine is so easy to work on. Plugs, coil, generator, distributor all easy to get at! Really I wish I had one now! You showed it off very nice 👍😉
From across the pond, I just love it. I live on an island and small cars are very out numbered. The wheels stand out. They are reminiscent of what we refer to as "artillery wheels". My neighbors 34 Chevrolet had them. Thanks. Narragansett Bay
One other thing that hurt Standard was the changing perception of what standard meant. Pre war, it would've been understood to mean the flag, something to be proud of (hence the Ensign). Postwar, it became understood more as meaning basic - "it's not luxury, it's only standard".
There was also the idea originally that it was "setting the standard" that others could only aspire to. The use of the Union flag on the radiator was a later patriotic marketing device.
Spot on. It's like the modern way businesses say "quality". I like to ask is that high or low quality?! It was just as well Standard took over Triumph, which is a name that has stood the test of time. The Standard cars look like under-rated bargains. Nice cars.
Ah, the memories! My father had one of these - he chose it because it was the only car in its class with ifs. Like that Scottish lady, he bought it in 1939, and he kept it nearly as long, until 1960. His one was black with tan upholstery. You have brought back a part of my childhood. Er, showing my age there...
Its so great that you're featuring a Flying 8. My dad had one as his first car in the early 60s, he decided it needed a bit of restoration and started to take it apart until he reached the point where he was surrounded by parts and realised he had no idea how to put it back together! He still rather misses it after all this time. We often watch your videos together so he's going to love this one especially. Keep up the excellent work, your videos are always a pleasure to watch.
What an interesting vehicle, had never heard of them before. As Bertie Wooster said, love the patina. Really enjoy your videos. How you review vehicles that regular people used, rather than the expensive unobtainables. And your delivery is so enjoyable and refreshing, full of information, no silly jokes, no music and dramatic cuts.
Thank you for this lovely piece of nostalgia - my late brother owned one of these in the late 1950s or early '60s. He brush painted it (very nicely) in a two-tone pale and dark blue colour scheme after doing some essential bodywork repairs. I recall that it always ran well.
Steph, I think your videos are great. How you remember all the facts and figures whilst shooting footage I don't know. I've done a bit and it's hard, and driving a car you don't know at the same time - amazing! I have some 60's cars, but my first car was a 1938 Austin big 7. This really takes me back. Thanks and keep 'em coming! 👍
I must say throughout my career as an (armchair) classic car driver. Never have I been so pleased to be in my chair and not attempting to drive the Flying Eight. Top marks for bravery and for having a go. Hope the car is fixed up now.
I owned a 1948 Standard 14 in the early 1980s It looked much like this Standard 8HP but larger and had four doors Apparently the 1948 Standard 14 HP hadn't change very much since the prewar Stardard 12 HP and still had cable brakes when our local Australian cars from that time would've had hydraulic brakes It had features like a windscreen that could be wound out by a small crank handle on the dash, a steel sunroof and a roller blind on the rear window that was operated by a cord from the drivers postion and suicide front doors the four doors all hinged from the centre door pillars It was a really nice very original car I wish I still had it
Many thanks Steph for another excellent video. What a great car. What i like about cars of this era is the way that they look . They look more friendly and inoffensive if that makes sense. A lot of the most modern stuff look very aggressive cold and clinical and obviously are totally devoid of any charm or character. The Standard is full of charm and character. I think this one tells a story with its imperfections on the bodywork and interior and its better for it better reflecting its history and fact that it is still useable after all of these years.
In 1964/65 I had a 1938 Standard 8, it could just about reach 60 mph after about 4 miles on a straight flat road, and once when at that speed I applied the brakes something snapped on the brake drums and made the car swerve, but luckily I stopped safely and managed to drive home only using the handbrake.
I clicked on the video straight away due to the original patina'd look ,which is very cool, but then I saw the lovely blue on the boot lid and the blue interior which make the car look great if the body and interior were restored as well. Totally down to the owner but if it were me it would be a decision I would be struggling with !
In the early 1960s I used to get a lift to school in one of these - that gearbox sound is very evocative. I loved that car and remember the dashboard - as you say, a really good instrument display. Great review!
Great video. My brandparents ought one in 1937😊. Car was stored in WW2, petrol rationed. Car supplied with stirrup pump to inflate tyres which I still have. In the 50"s my parents had a silver one, my father had to fit a new floor, took hours., leaf springs re-sprung thereafter the back was bouncy and I had to hold on.
You’re correct. On a sunny afternoon you would have likely shifted at higher speeds and got the knack of a crash box before the old coil made its final blue sparks. They can be very daunting with their screaming straight cut gears. My 1929 Essex has rod actuated brakes, a three speed crash box and six cylinders but no water or fuel pumps. Convection moves the coolant and gravity/vacuum moves the petrol.All of the cars in my forty years of collecting are conserved survivors. Although I do go as far as replacing weather trim items because sometimes we get caught in the rain while time traveling. Speaking of which, your hat was ideal!
Someone in southern Vermont has a 1946 Standard 8 tourer that's been there from new, an original US export car with left-hand-drive and sealed-beam headlights - and a phone number in Coventry on the firewall plate! Even the closest dealer was a long way off, it was supplied by J.S. Inskip in New York City.
These ancient gearboxes respond well to the "double declutching" I grew up with it (and had to!) because the A30 I was about to take my driving test on had worn-out synchro. For you youngsters out there, I'm sure that the internet will enlighten anyone who wishes to enhance their experience of coping with these ancient vehicles..
My father's A30 had weak synchro , it also had a tendency to stick in second , you had to move the selector with a big screwdriver after taking the gear lever out. Eventually he just used 1st 3rd and 4th . They were pretty awful boxes.
My old man had one of those standards as a second car in the 1950’s into the early sixties it was a convertible probably one of our Australian body builders built the body on it, I can just remember it
@@idriveaclassic I am thank you! Hopefully I’ll be back on track with everything in the New Year - in the meantime I’m catching up on my favourite car channel - your outfits always delight me! Xx
Thanks for a really enjoyable video. The history of the car that you recounted was as interesting as the car itself. I would not have the gumption to try to drive the car so well done indeed for doing it!
Hi from Germany, lovely videos. I found them on youtube while watching Hub Nut. Subscription and Bell done. That car is something like my Volkswagen Polo 86C 2F with 4-speed, 45 hp out of 1043cc and nothing else (ok, 2 outside mirrors). Cheers from North-Rhine Westphalia
Reminds me of the cars relatives of mine used to drive as their daily transport in the 80s she had a Morris 8 and he had a Standard 10 . They both did about 20 miles a day on 50 mph limit roads. By properly fixing things both cars were depenable,
Well done for getting as far as you did. As you said, the patina on the paintwork, revealing patches of the vibrant original blue and the interior imbue it with such spirit 👍👏👌
@@idriveaclassicI have done the same, thought about what was happening in the world when my Humber Hawk was new. The Beatles had just started out & JFK was alive. I enjoyed this video, nice to see a car that has been allowed to keep its age.
I have an identical car, Standard Flying Eight from 1939. Starts, runs, goes and I'm currently refurbishing the fuel system. The body is a bit shabby at the moment - but I do love my classic and doing bits to it! 30mph is usually where you are at the majority of the time around the countryside/town etc but you can get it up to about 40mph or so, it's pretty leisurely to drive and 3rd is quite a fast gear.
Its interesting watching this and comparing the driving experience with the Tyler Hoover video today of his 1946 Chrysler town and country... the level of refinement on American cars of the era in comparison is astounding. I guess the Standard Vanguard review is a more cogent comparison though.
I am in love with this car, it looks amazing and knowing it's all mechanically restored makes it all the better. I love your fashion and how you tailor to the colour of the car, I'm so relieved you didn't go for the Compo look with this one though 🤣
Sorry for your embarrassing cut out miss!. I am charmed by your standard! It's like a miniature Rolls Royce!. The milage is incredible! The best mileage I ve ever experienced was a broken down Honda civic. The exhaust was awful! Your car is remarkably classic. I ve almost fallen in love with it!
OMG. How amazing is this. A gracious older lady who carries her age with pride. No facelifts, no botox, 84 years of life's battle scars and still kicking. That is true beauty. I care not for vintage cars but if I can be in this condition and still this charming at this age I'll die happy. 🤗
I was watching this clip on TH-cam where this guy was showing his viewers how to drive a three speed column in a 1948 Plymouth, and he was saying that a lot of old cars, like the Plymouth, didn't have synchro on first. So, clearly, it was very common for those times.
i am the fourth owner of a 1935 morris 10/4, which must be a lower mileage, as it appears to be less worn. would appreciate a review of the model. great channel. thanks.philip
Owned one of these as a sixth former having "done it up" aged 16. Well remember the Bendix "self-energising" cable brakes always needing to be adjusted to work safely. Great little car though, bought a 1955 Standard 10 to follow, kept it through university, your video on this model brought happy memories
We had a flying 8 tourer (convertible) in the 1960s. It was grim in the wet to be honest 😂 the side windows were detachable celluloid flappy panels The vacuum powered wiper would slow down as you went up through the gears as the rpm went down.
We had a 1937 Standard 8 in the late fifties. It was the first car Dad was able to buy when I was a lad. In those days most cars in use in the UK were relics from before WW2. Mum and dad and my sister and I used to get in and Dad took us for days out in the countryside in the south of England. The fastest speed I ever saw on the speedometer was 55mph.
My first car was a Standard 8 when I had just my driving test at 17 the garage I was working for put me through back in 1959 I bought for £6 the fuel pump was useless I bought one fitted it and drove It for 9 yrs with hardly any problems I carried a few spares and that was all it never really let me down even used it on my honeymoon.
Great video Steph as they are always. I love the way you always see the good in the cars you drive for us but the gears, the steering and the noise did seem to make it quite hard work. I'm not a lover of all that much patina personally but I can see how it would appeal to some but I think the driving experience would need to be kept on quiet private roads.
Ah well at least we got a bit of a test drive. she didn't disgrace herself it was cold after all. Lovely old car and the colour is nice where it showed, many cars of this era being in black of course. Thanks for another video Steph. 👍👍
What a loverly car
It's hard to express how deeply I love a car that has its original bodywork, and interior. If it runs, steers, and stops good, that's more than good enough for me. There's just something about an almost fully original car.
I have a Standard flying 12 from 1938. Daily driver- super slick 4 speed box. Same sort of condition but I am just having the seats retrimmed as there is more stuffing on the outside than the inside. I have done 2 x 1000mile tours around France in recent years and I love it.
how many miles has it done?
@@g-r-a-e-m-e- it shows about 65k but no idea if it has been round the clock. It is even better now the seats are done, really comfy. Everything still works too, including the wind up clock. Built like a tank
I'm in Australia and own two! A 39 tourer and a 47 saloon like that one... so glad you're featuring prewar Standards!
Wowza that’s some dedication! How is your spares supply
@idriveaclassic pretty good. I've owned the '39 for 20 years and it came with lots of mechanical parts. They are very rare over here though.. the Standard club over there is excellent help too. I'm feeling spoilt with your videos lately, I was a long term owner of a 51 MM series Minor and would love another 1000 model, loved your video and answers to those who criticise them, but I also bought a Jowett Javelin to finish restoring a few weeks before your video on them and now this Standard video too.. love the channel Steph!
@@chriscansdale6389 ahh we must have very similar tastes then 😂😂
Me too - I had 1948 model, my first car.
My Great Uncle Arthur had one these and being a successful greengrocer, also had an Austin 12 at the same time which was only to be used only on Sundays. The Standard normally took my Great Aunt Annie, my parents and myself to the seafront at Weston Super Mare where he parked it proudly outside the Winter Gardens whilst we had afternoon tea! His was gleaming black with brown leather and he kept it until the early 1960’s but it was lost decades ago of course. Meanwhile my Uncle in London had the very rare Standard Flying 16 V8 which was very special but cost a fortune to run…12-15mpg at best…now that would be one to test Steff!!! 😃😃😃😃
She's a beauty. Love the looks so cool. ❤
As an American, this is so cool. It is tiny (and adorable) compared so American cars of the same years. With that pretty dark blue paint, it must have been quite the looker in 1939.❤
I love it too , but I have to say the Americans produced some stunning cars.
And it's a flat head 😊.
Love the permanently attached tow rope. One of your best videos ever.
Michael that’s so lovely of you to say. Thanks
Yes!
That's what I used to tow it out of the river 😂😂
Love the way this has been preserved as original. This will bring back memories for students at university around 1960 because they all drove cars of this era in this condition.
Love the pieces of broken rope still attached to the front bumper. My 1957 Ford Prefect had the same arrangement!
Merry Christmas and happy new year from Kyle Austraila
I drove one of these to university in the early 1980's in Australia. The cable brakes were hopeless and trying to get the alloy head off the steel studded iron block was a nightmare. Overly complex front suspension no better in practice than the beam axled Morris 8 I had after the Standard. Good memories though.
I wish more cars were kept like this one. I'm not a fan of "full" restorations!
GREAT VIDEO STEPH. THANKS. MERRY CHRISTMAS.
What an adorable car. The condition it is in adds a character and charm that would be missing if it was mint. Full credit to the owner. As long as the condition is managed I'm all for it.
Yeah, god yeah. Simon is a whizz, I was so impressed by his dedication to his cars.
My Dads first car in the mid 1950s was a Standard Flying 8. I don’t know how old it was but the registration was BUT165. Thanks for the memories.
Nice more prewar car please it suits you well .
Charming little car - and SO nice that the current owner kept the "patina" on it, rather than turn it into a showpiece that everybody's afraid to touch! (Plenty of those cars out there, to be sure.) One thing I really got a kick out of: the gauges made by Smiths. Same maker of the gauges in my 1977 Triumph TR7! And of course, as a Triumph Guy, I appreciate Standard's heritage it reviving the Triumph after the War. Sir John Black was a fascinating character, too! (We can thank his being miffed at the success of the Jaguar XK-120 for prompting his decision to revive Triumph.)
The TR3 shared the rear axle etc 😄
Top patina - right up my alley. Cheers
Love this little car, my type of classic travelling, nice one stef.😊
We had a convertible when I was young. We towed a trailer with it and went on many camping trips in Devon and Cornwall with it
KVX 808 was a great car. Sold in 1960 and replaced with a 105 E Anglia .. Great video Stef.
My first car bought for me by my Dad secondhand in 1961 - on the first day I reversed it down our drive across the pavement, then the road and into the hedge on the far side - cable brakes didn't work in reverse and never did. Easily carried seven mates squashed in.Would have preferred a Morris 8.
Just Love the car!!! It has way more charm and style then the boxes we drive today. The engine is so easy to work on. Plugs, coil, generator, distributor all easy to get at! Really I wish I had one now! You showed it off very nice 👍😉
From across the pond, I just love it. I live on an island and small cars are very out numbered. The wheels stand out. They are reminiscent of what we refer to as "artillery wheels". My neighbors 34 Chevrolet had them. Thanks. Narragansett Bay
a little gem steph
Brilliant, very enjoyable and entertaining. Thanks Steph.
One other thing that hurt Standard was the changing perception of what standard meant. Pre war, it would've been understood to mean the flag, something to be proud of (hence the Ensign). Postwar, it became understood more as meaning basic - "it's not luxury, it's only standard".
There was also the idea originally that it was "setting the standard" that others could only aspire to. The use of the Union flag on the radiator was a later patriotic marketing device.
Spot on. It's like the modern way businesses say "quality". I like to ask is that high or low quality?! It was just as well Standard took over Triumph, which is a name that has stood the test of time. The Standard cars look like under-rated bargains. Nice cars.
With most businesses nowadays, it means shoddy quality 🙂
@@ac2litre if Standard acquired Triumph, why did they keep the name Triumph. It was that name that survived thru to the 70s
I’d never considered it like that - makes sense!
Ah, the memories! My father had one of these - he chose it because it was the only car in its class with ifs. Like that Scottish lady, he bought it in 1939, and he kept it nearly as long, until 1960. His one was black with tan upholstery. You have brought back a part of my childhood. Er, showing my age there...
Really enjoyed watching this, love old pre-war cars, they have character.
Nice car nice. nice to see it as is
Its so great that you're featuring a Flying 8. My dad had one as his first car in the early 60s, he decided it needed a bit of restoration and started to take it apart until he reached the point where he was surrounded by parts and realised he had no idea how to put it back together! He still rather misses it after all this time. We often watch your videos together so he's going to love this one especially. Keep up the excellent work, your videos are always a pleasure to watch.
Loved the car,shame about the negative comments,i have just purchased a new coil for my triumph and your right about the quality.
Just lovely, thanks Steph.
Lovely to see a car from that era that gets driven, I have some classic bikes, the one I use and enjoy the most is unrestored and largely original.
what a really wonderful and well deserved classic car from the 30's and in good shape for it's age and I enjoyed watching it.
What an interesting vehicle, had never heard of them before. As Bertie Wooster said, love the patina.
Really enjoy your videos. How you review vehicles that regular people used, rather than the expensive unobtainables. And your delivery is so enjoyable and refreshing, full of information, no silly jokes, no music and dramatic cuts.
Thank you for this lovely piece of nostalgia - my late brother owned one of these in the late 1950s or early '60s. He brush painted it (very nicely) in a two-tone pale and dark blue colour scheme after doing some essential bodywork repairs. I recall that it always ran well.
What a super video, thank you.
Steph, I think your videos are great. How you remember all the facts and figures whilst shooting footage I don't know. I've done a bit and it's hard, and driving a car you don't know at the same time - amazing!
I have some 60's cars, but my first car was a 1938 Austin big 7. This really takes me back. Thanks and keep 'em coming! 👍
I must say throughout my career as an (armchair) classic car driver. Never have I been so pleased to be in my chair and not attempting to drive the Flying Eight. Top marks for bravery and for having a go. Hope the car is fixed up now.
Yes it's fine now I've fixed it all running sweetly😂
Very nice and interesting car. I'm going to explore your other videos. Cheers, from Nashville, TN.
I owned a 1948 Standard 14 in the early 1980s
It looked much like this Standard 8HP but larger and had four doors
Apparently the 1948 Standard 14 HP hadn't change very much since the prewar Stardard 12 HP and still had cable brakes when our local Australian cars from that time would've had hydraulic brakes
It had features like a windscreen that could be wound out by a small crank handle on the dash, a steel sunroof and a roller blind on the rear window that was operated by a cord from the drivers postion and suicide front doors the four doors all hinged from the centre door pillars
It was a really nice very original car I wish I still had it
Many thanks Steph for another excellent video. What a great car. What i like about cars of this era is the way that they look . They look more friendly and inoffensive if that makes sense. A lot of the most modern stuff look very aggressive cold and clinical and obviously are totally devoid of any charm or character. The Standard is full of charm and character. I think this one tells a story with its imperfections on the bodywork and interior and its better for it better reflecting its history and fact that it is still useable after all of these years.
Always very interesting to see cars that are before even my time. Good one. Thanks Steph.
It’s a car you so rarely see nowadays
In 1964/65 I had a 1938 Standard 8, it could just about reach 60 mph after about 4 miles on a straight flat road, and once when at that speed I applied the brakes something snapped on the brake drums and made the car swerve, but luckily I stopped safely and managed to drive home only using the handbrake.
I clicked on the video straight away due to the original patina'd look ,which is very cool, but then I saw the lovely blue on the boot lid and the blue interior which make the car look great if the body and interior were restored as well. Totally down to the owner but if it were me it would be a decision I would be struggling with !
It’s hard to justify wiping out the history, even if it’s not ‘pretty’
In the early 1960s I used to get a lift to school in one of these - that gearbox sound is very evocative. I loved that car and remember the dashboard - as you say, a really good instrument display. Great review!
Its wonderful! I love it!
My mother used to take me to kindergarten in a green one. Lovely!
Great video. My brandparents ought one in 1937😊. Car was stored in WW2, petrol rationed. Car supplied with stirrup pump to inflate tyres which I still have. In the 50"s my parents had a silver one, my father had to fit a new floor, took hours., leaf springs re-sprung thereafter the back was bouncy and I had to hold on.
You’re correct. On a sunny afternoon you would have likely shifted at higher speeds and got the knack of a crash box before the old coil made its final blue sparks. They can be very daunting with their screaming straight cut gears. My 1929 Essex has rod actuated brakes, a three speed crash box and six cylinders but no water or fuel pumps. Convection moves the coolant and gravity/vacuum moves the petrol.All of the cars in my forty years of collecting are conserved survivors. Although I do go as far as replacing weather trim items because sometimes we get caught in the rain while time traveling. Speaking of which, your hat was ideal!
Classic pre war standard British steel at its peak merry Xmas steph and have a good new year.
That was great! It is part of the charm when every trip is an adventure. Well done!
Haha an adventure it was
Excellent little video and I feel as if I was there experiencing what it's like to drive a 1930s Standard Flying 8.
Ian would be impressed by the wiper performance… 😄 What a nice car! I love patina! 🇬🇧🥰🇩🇪
At least not a useless vacuum type!
What a beauty ❤
Great to see this Steph, thanks for reviewing an older classic ( like me 😅). NIce to see the Proton too....looking good!
Morning Steph, great video I do like very much the variety of different cars you demonstrate on your channel.
Thanks Vince. Next week is something mega rare.
Someone in southern Vermont has a 1946 Standard 8 tourer that's been there from new, an original US export car with left-hand-drive and sealed-beam headlights - and a phone number in Coventry on the firewall plate! Even the closest dealer was a long way off, it was supplied by J.S. Inskip in New York City.
These ancient gearboxes respond well to the "double declutching" I grew up with it (and had to!) because the A30 I was about to take my driving test on had worn-out synchro. For you youngsters out there, I'm sure that the internet will enlighten anyone who wishes to enhance their experience of coping with these ancient vehicles..
My father's A30 had weak synchro , it also had a tendency to stick in second , you had to move the selector with a big screwdriver after taking the gear lever out. Eventually he just used 1st 3rd and 4th . They were pretty awful boxes.
Oh, I'm 57 years old, and I learned how to double clutch. I had a truck I borrowed that did better with that. Maybe a late 1950s Ford?
Great video Steph!
My old man had one of those standards as a second car in the 1950’s into the early sixties it was a convertible probably one of our Australian body builders built the body on it, I can just remember it
Wow! Cool car! So cute! 😍😍
Lovely ❤much love from beirut lebanon
Thoroughly enjoyed this episode Steph! I’m fully intending a binge watch catch-up later today!!! 😊
Thanks Shar! Hope you’re feeling better? Know you’ve been poorly recently xx
@@idriveaclassic I am thank you! Hopefully I’ll be back on track with everything in the New Year - in the meantime I’m catching up on my favourite car channel - your outfits always delight me! Xx
@@BeautifulBadandBizarre ahh you’re too kind! Although it is nice to have them appreciated! Xx
@@idriveaclassic I absolutely always appreciate your style and elegance! Have a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year 🎄🎁❤️
I live in Panama and this was my mother's first car she had here after leaving England after the war.
Thanks for a really enjoyable video. The history of the car that you recounted was as interesting as the car itself.
I would not have the gumption to try to drive the car so well done indeed for doing it!
Hi from Germany,
lovely videos. I found them on youtube while watching Hub Nut.
Subscription and Bell done.
That car is something like my Volkswagen Polo 86C 2F with 4-speed, 45 hp out of 1043cc and nothing else (ok, 2 outside mirrors).
Cheers from North-Rhine Westphalia
Wait for next weeks car🤔
I saw that and others like it as a boy …..wonderful…..thank you
Reminds me of the cars relatives of mine used to drive as their daily transport in the 80s she had a Morris 8 and he had a Standard 10 . They both did about 20 miles a day on 50 mph limit roads. By properly fixing things both cars were depenable,
Beautiful cars ! Keep them rolling . From Canada . Happy Holidays to you .
Well done for getting as far as you did. As you said, the patina on the paintwork, revealing patches of the vibrant original blue and the interior imbue it with such spirit 👍👏👌
What I find nice about this car is that it's all there. It just needs a little TLC.
Excellent video Steph. Strange to think that people were driving this car when Hitler was invading Poland!
Yeah it’s like I was once laid in bed unable to sleep thinking about all the historical moments my morris had lived through what a sad act I am.
@@idriveaclassic 😂👏
@@idriveaclassicI have done the same, thought about what was happening in the world when my Humber Hawk was new. The Beatles had just started out & JFK was alive.
I enjoyed this video, nice to see a car that has been allowed to keep its age.
I have an identical car, Standard Flying Eight from 1939. Starts, runs, goes and I'm currently refurbishing the fuel system. The body is a bit shabby at the moment - but I do love my classic and doing bits to it!
30mph is usually where you are at the majority of the time around the countryside/town etc but you can get it up to about 40mph or so, it's pretty leisurely to drive and 3rd is quite a fast gear.
My dads first car in 1950 in the Netherlands. Car long long gone but one photo of it survived till today…..🙂
Its interesting watching this and comparing the driving experience with the Tyler Hoover video today of his 1946 Chrysler town and country... the level of refinement on American cars of the era in comparison is astounding. I guess the Standard Vanguard review is a more cogent comparison though.
Great review Steph! It's good to see your Proton out too. Have you done a review on the Proton? Forgive me if I've missed it.
I am in love with this car, it looks amazing and knowing it's all mechanically restored makes it all the better. I love your fashion and how you tailor to the colour of the car, I'm so relieved you didn't go for the Compo look with this one though 🤣
Sorry for your embarrassing cut out miss!. I am charmed by your standard! It's like a miniature Rolls Royce!. The milage is incredible! The best mileage I ve ever experienced was a broken down Honda civic. The exhaust was awful! Your car is remarkably classic. I ve almost fallen in love with it!
OMG. How amazing is this. A gracious older lady who carries her age with pride. No facelifts, no botox, 84 years of life's battle scars and still kicking. That is true beauty.
I care not for vintage cars but if I can be in this condition and still this charming at this age I'll die happy. 🤗
Thought you were talking about me at first. Very evident I need some Botox 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@idriveaclassic Bwahahah. You nutter. 🤣 BTW.. FABULOUS hat! I want one!
@@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt I bought it at Space Vintage in Harrogate 😊
@@idriveaclassic That's only 16,513km away from my place 😬 Amazing how small the world is on YT until one has to go there.
@@idriveaclassic Dont change a thing Steph you look fine to me !
What a lovely little car. Well done :)
that was cool, i would love an origional ish old car like that!
lovely to see an original example i have done very much the same with my classic a mechanical restoration but keeping body and interior original
I was watching this clip on TH-cam where this guy was showing his viewers how to drive a three speed column in a 1948 Plymouth, and he was saying that a lot of old cars, like the Plymouth, didn't have synchro on first. So, clearly, it was very common for those times.
i am the fourth owner of a 1935 morris 10/4, which must be a lower mileage, as it appears to be less worn. would appreciate a review of the model. great channel. thanks.philip
My dad had a Standard 10 during the late 1950’s. As a youngster I learnt so much about steering mechanism, brakes and the engines on that car.
The car that I learned to drive in.
Owned one of these as a sixth former having "done it up" aged 16. Well remember the Bendix "self-energising" cable brakes always needing to be adjusted to work safely. Great little car though, bought a 1955 Standard 10 to follow, kept it through university, your video on this model brought happy memories
We had a flying 8 tourer (convertible) in the 1960s. It was grim in the wet to be honest 😂 the side windows were detachable celluloid flappy panels The vacuum powered wiper would slow down as you went up through the gears as the rpm went down.
We had a 1937 Standard 8 in the late fifties. It was the first car Dad was able to buy when I was a lad. In those days most cars in use in the UK were relics from before WW2. Mum and dad and my sister and I used to get in and Dad took us for days out in the countryside in the south of England. The fastest speed I ever saw on the speedometer was 55mph.
What a lovely little Standard! I agree, as tempting as it would be to give it a nice resto, the honest patina makes a much stronger statement.
Always loved the original.
Despite the hiccup, it was lovely to see
Nice review of an iconic little car. this lead on to form some of the earlier Triumph cars, i believe. well done Bob
Thanks Bob!
My first car was a Standard 8 when I had just my driving test at 17 the garage I was working for put me through back in 1959 I bought for £6 the fuel pump was useless I bought one fitted it and drove It for 9 yrs with hardly any problems I carried a few spares and that was all it never really let me down even used it on my honeymoon.
I went to the Glasgow transport museum in the 90s so I might have seen this car there.
You may well have done!
Don't get me started on what they've done to that place. I'm glad this car escaped! The new Riverside Museum is awful.
Great video Steph as they are always.
I love the way you always see the good in the cars you drive for us but the gears, the steering and the noise did seem to make it quite hard work.
I'm not a lover of all that much patina personally but I can see how it would appeal to some but I think the driving experience would need to be kept on quiet private roads.
Amazingly characterful car as I'm sure the 1st Lady owner would have wanted it.
Such a cute little car 😍
The original condition looks so great!
Nice car & video, you're also looking great Steph ❤
Ah well at least we got a bit of a test drive. she didn't disgrace herself it was cold after all. Lovely old car and the colour is nice where it showed, many cars of this era being in black of course. Thanks for another video Steph. 👍👍
The Flying Standard pub in Coventry is named after this car!
One unique thing l noticed is that the center of the steering wheel is stationary. That would take some getting used to. Pretty old girl!
Very nice, thank-you. A lovely car in the era of railway travel to everywhere.