1927 Austin 12/4 Windsor

[Mike Costigan]

Definitely something wrong there. It's fifty years since I ran a 1927 Windsor, but I regularly drove it at 45-50mph, upper 20s mpg (i reckon I got better than 30mpg on a decent run), it was the first Vintage saloon to climb the VSCC Lakeland Trial Drumhouse section (top of Honister Pass), which it achieved in second gear 4-up, until the last hairpin when the Autovac ran out of fuel - fortunately the change to first gave sufficient vacuum to get some more fuel through! From memory the carb was a 30mm side-draught.

Someone in the VAR will surely be able to sort you out?