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Tony Griffiths Offline
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14-09-2020, 06:54 PM (This post was last modified: 14-09-2020, 06:56 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
Does anyone on the forum own an American Austin (of any model or age) - or know how many there are in the UK?


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14-09-2020, 08:50 PM
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! 

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14-09-2020, 11:38 PM
(14-09-2020, 08:50 PM)Peter Naulls Wrote: 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.
Thank you, Peter. PM sent.
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14-09-2020, 11:54 PM (This post was last modified: 14-09-2020, 11:55 PM by Edgar Lowe.)
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.
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15-09-2020, 08:55 AM
    This is mine!
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17-09-2020, 05:33 AM
What is the background to the surprisingly accurate looking models please?
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17-09-2020, 08:37 AM
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-aust...in-bantam/

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17-09-2020, 08:54 AM
This is Dave Filler's - at Beaulieu in 2018.

   
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