Will the problems never end, vol.2

[Mike Costigan]

I have looked at a few but always decided that I have enough on my plate - they are good looking cars, along with the Newbury 12 model - did they make a 16 Sports version?

The Kempton was the sports saloon version, Ruairidh; I don't think they made a 16hp sports tourer:


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Edit: Yes, they did make a 16hp Newbury:

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20144/lot/599/

[Ruairidh Dunford]

They are fine looking tourers - I wouldn't mind driving one of those over the Pyrenees with the family!

[Reckless Rat]

Like this? (climbing up the Port d'Envilara in Andorra, the highest pass in the Pyrenées at 2408 metres)

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Yes - just like that please Bruce!

[Dave Mann]

You beat me Tony, 6500 miles a year equates to 180 mile every day which leaves little time for other activities. Whilst I've achieved 50 MPG in an RN saloon but not on Malcolm Parker's runs.

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I have one car which has had various heads fitted all using the old joint (a modern non asbestos one) it just requires both faces to be flat.

[andrew34ruby]

You beat me Tony, 6500 miles a year equates to 180 mile every day which leaves little time for other activities. Whilst I've achieved 50 MPG in an RN saloon but not on Malcolm Parker's runs.

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I have one car which has had various heads fitted all using the old joint (a modern non asbestos one) it just requires both faces to be flat.

There's something wrong there.   6500 miles a year is near to 18 miles every day.  Not 180.

[Dave Mann]

Sorry I missed a 0 off.

[Ruairidh Dunford]

John Fitch drove his Pearl in excess of 60’000 miles one year back in the late 1960s - so I understand...

[Bob Culver]

Re the Kempton, a few years ago the local VAR mag covered a similarly stylish unrestored car which had passed from "enthusiast" to "enthusiast" locally. Dont know where the very un Austin bodies came from but apparently common to Adler or somesuch?
With our RP my father used to meticulously check mpg. i can remember him occasionally running the car out to a stop (not unsafe in the late 1940s) We visited grandparents 200 miles away twice a year with two adults not of modern proportions and two children, and gear, at 40-45 mph where the winding roads of the time allowed. He claimed a regular 50 mpg.

[Parazine]

Dont know where the very un Austin bodies came from but apparently common to Adler or somesuch?

The Kempton was introduced as the "Greyhound" in 1933, using bodies imported from Germany, manufactured by Ambi-Budd. It was renamed the "Kempton" after a short time, due to the original name being used by another manufacturer.

Ref: P186 "The Austin, 1905-1952",  RJ Wyatt. Published by David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1981