ROADTRIP WITH THE CLASSIC AUSTIN A40 SOMERSET
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2019
- Earlier this year the Haynes Museum team restored our Austin A40 Somerset classic car.
In this short video, Laura our Collections Director, drives around Somerset and reveals what's special about the "Poor Man's Saloon".
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I loved that column change. I had a 1952 A40 in 1967. Old but gold!
Wonderful car, my father owned it in 50s, learned driving on it.
Lovely car. I had the privilege of being a passenger in one as a kid. These cars out survived their contemporaries by many years by refusing to rust away. In north Norfolk which used to be a favourite retirement area, old people could often be seen driving around in their Somersets in the late 70s to early 80s. By then their successors, the Austin A40 Cambridge, were rarer than hens teeth.
Lovely to see Olive kept busy after her On the Buses career finished😊
My many years of driving one as my £30 ‘first car’ was great fun. D.Thompson has not mentioned my one’s repeated failings….. half shafts and head caskets - middle cylinders too close.
My father gave me one as my first car in the early 70s. Lovely car to drive. Very upright, you stepped into it rather than ducked into it unlike the more modern cars of the time. I loved it, but so did the thieves who regularly stole my car battery. Which given the intolerance of the police to on street parking over night made it impractical. (Yes, the police had time in those days to clear whole roads of parked cars of an evening).
Wow, it's in perfect condition!
I had one of these as an everyday car in the late 80s, eventually adding a 1949 Devon and a Somerset Coupe as a fine weather car. all drove beautifully with only a couple of breakdowns in 20 year ownership. Sadly, I had to let them go when I moved home.
Lovely Bulbous!
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Nice narration, Laura. Please slow down the visuals. I just focused on a picture, understanding what I'm looking at and the picture/video changes to something else. I'm an old guy and like old cars, am a little slow. Thanks for posting a Austin A40 Somerset.
John Shrader thanks John, glad you enjoyed it- we will bear that in mind for the next video!
The speedometer problem is usually caused by a sticky cable! It may just need a bit of grease.
They stick out rather than light, Semaphore indicators/ signals DO LIGHT, otherwise how can one see them in the dark
You guys at Haynes do a great job, and not only car repair manuals, I also love your music compilation CDs! Generally, I'm not much into Christmas music, but I love your Ultimate Guide to the Festive Season! It has a lot of unusual tracks.
Does anyone out there know what fuel to use on old vehicles these days, will E10 destroy them or which additive "really" works
Yes...shoot some thick penetrating oil down the speedo cable conduit...that ought to solve the problem.
These cars were very robust and were well built, and especially the OHV four cylinder engine, which replaced the flat head was an excellent unit that continued on into the 1970's.
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OK, wait, I'm not familiar with that little bit of English slang you used! Define please - "style it out..." Sounds cool.
- Paul, USA
It's new to me too - and I'm English!
@@lemming9984Style it out means behave in a confident manner even though you don't really know what is going on.
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Trafficators instead of lights, yes but didn't they also have lights inside them
Yes , they certainly did !
"Poor man's saloon" ...?! Let's get this into a proper context! If you had one of these in 1952 in the UK, you had to be doing VERY well indeed. There was such a shortage of new cars on the home market (as most were exported, and buying, and even selling restrictions applied) the few with money to spare for buying and running cars couldn't even get hold of a new or nearly new second hand car! Decent, non-Pool petrol was not available until 1953. Most who had the means had to make do with iffy pre-war jobs, - if they were lucky. No, for the vast majority of people, owning a car was a distant and impossible dream.
My dad had Austin Somerset grey bought for £70
Invisialign...
Speaking from experience this car was crap. My father bought his in 1959 used. He eventually gave to me.
Steering box worm and roller. Independent suspension was a hazardous mix of high maintenance
ball joints and Kingpin.
Leaky lever arm dampers. Useless.
Terrible sloppy steering. Bouncy ride
Handling....leaning in corners
Dangerous especially in snow and ice on inner tube skinny tires
Performance and acceleration. None
The car was heavy.
Body. Lots of steel. Very durable chassis.
Trafficator arms .. semaphore types..
Iffy , maybe they might work. But usually get stuck. Bang on the pillar, wake em up.
Reliability ... excellent...
Interior Leather with sliding steel sunroof.
Maintenance under hood
Dreadful. Giant radiator hinders access to dynamo, distributor , water pump fan belt pulleys.
Battery placed on bulk head.
Overall...
How not to design a car.
Engineering .. L for laughable
Wheels and Tires with inner tube B
Lever arm dampers F
Tool kit Leather interior A
Dash and Gauges A
Drivability F
Fun to drive F
Handling F
Steering F
Ride ..comfy but bouncy B
Interior overall ambience A
Gear change , clunky , stiff , so bad
not rated
Clutch ... Absolutely hopeless.
Let it out very slowly or simply start in second gear.
Brakes ...single circuit, no back up,
Master cylinder prone to failure
Wheel brake cylinders..F
Handbrake...give up
Sunroof. Need a superhuman to open it but A
Overall verdict
How
Yes, but most of the other cars of that era were like that too, especially if not maintained and driven properly!
Don't hold back now!