Near Abercrave, I'm not sure what it is but looks like a '50s / 60's estate / panel van / woody? Any ideas? (Click on thumbnail to blow up and click again to magnify).
Post by grumpynorthener on Sept 30, 2020 7:38:21 GMT
Looks like a Austin A35 estate or van - swaged pressing on the door skin - 2 small stacked rear lamps & the centrally mounted dash gauges are the refences that I have used - I could of course be completely wrong
OK, thanks for the input, I was with A35 APART from that door pressing because I thought it was a loose driver's door. If it's the rear door then it makes sense.
I went for a long walk in the Beacons yesterday and passed this same garage, I put a torch on the car and the door with the indented panel is the drivers door not the rear door so, I guess, unlikely to be A30/35 as their drivers door is contoured to include the sweep of the front wing. I couldn't take any fresh photos as I'd exhausted my battery so the flash wouldn't work.
I went for a long walk in the Beacons yesterday and passed this same garage, I put a torch on the car and the door with the indented panel is the drivers door not the rear door so, I guess, unlikely to be A30/35 as their drivers door is contoured to include the sweep of the front wing. I couldn't take any fresh photos as I'd exhausted my battery so the flash wouldn't work.
Door skins on some of the vans were pressed with a swaged panel (rare)
The more common door skin is the non swaged panel one
You know you are driving something with a few years behind it when you go to the scrapyard and there is only one car in there older than your daily. Must say it was pretty sad to see this old girl sat on her belly waiting to be picked apart , not that there was really much salvagable on it.
