08-06-2020, 11:15 PM
(08-06-2020, 10:49 AM)Bill Dixon Wrote: Standard Model. RP
Has Black painted Head Lamps.
On the doors
Pocket different. No trim on bottom of doors, Top steel not fitted.
Seats leather cloth.
Wheels, centres black made from steel.
Windscreen, made of steel painted black.
Smokers Hatch, painted black.
Cost £118 for Stanard Sallon. £128 Deluxe.
I am not sure that this list is quite correct. My car is a standard saloon and has the black enameled headlamps and no sunshine roof. The original trim would have been either rexine or wool rep, although my car was retrimmed about 50 years ago in brown vinyl leathercloth.. The door trims are very similar to the deluxe saloon, with door pockets. I think that the originals were probably like that and were simply copied during the retrim. The windscreen surround is chrome and it has stainless wheel centres. I am sure these last items are correct, judging by the sales brochures of the time. I cannot comment on the smokers hatch as my car no longer has it.
Again, judging from contemporary sales brochures, I believe that the colour scheme was also different to the deluxe saloon. Originally, I believe that the standard saloon body was a single colour with only the wings black.