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American Austin - Tony Griffiths - 14-09-2020
Does anyone on the forum own an American Austin (of any model or age) - or know how many there are in the UK?
RE: American Austin - Peter Naulls - 14-09-2020
Hi Tony,
I don't own one but I am a member of the American Austin Bantam Club. I know of three or four cars, one or two Coupes, one Roadster and a Coupe with a modified station wagon back ...
...also 30 of these sitting in my workshop waiting to be packaged up and sold!
Peter.
RE: American Austin - Tony Griffiths - 14-09-2020
(14-09-2020, 08:50 PM)Peter Naulls Wrote: Hi Tony,Thank you, Peter. PM sent.
I don't own one but I am a member of the American Austin Bantam Club. I know of three or four cars, one or two Coupes, one Roadster and a Coupe with a modified station wagon back ...
...also 30 of these sitting in my workshop waiting to be packaged up and sold!
Peter.
RE: American Austin - Edgar Lowe - 14-09-2020
I know of four cars, one 1930 Roadster, one 1930/31 Coupe and two 1938/39 Roadster which were converted by the Bantam factory to RHD and send to the Austin Motors, one of these is restored the other in pieces.
RE: American Austin - Chris Garner - 15-09-2020
RE: American Austin - Bob Culver - 17-09-2020
What is the background to the surprisingly accurate looking models please?
RE: American Austin - Peter Naulls - 17-09-2020
The Bantams were mass-produced by Ertl in the USA (1:18 scale I think) as pick-ups and vans, various colours and liveries.
The Austins are mine, 1:43 scale, produced in small numbered batches of 50 over the last 10 years as a "gap filling" project when my work goes quiet: http://invermodels.co.uk/all-things-austin/american-austin-bantam/
Peter.
RE: American Austin - Nick Salmon - 17-09-2020
This is Dave Filler's - at Beaulieu in 2018.