Aussie Oddball: 1965 Wolseley 24/80 - Blue Streak Six Cylinder!
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Another Australian oddity for you, with a healthy dose of nostalgia. In the 1960s, BMC was told it needed more power for its BMC Farina. With the larger Westminster not assembled in Australia, BMC decided to develop a six-cylinder version of the B-Series engine - 2.4 litres and a whopping 80bhp. This one has the 3-speed Borg Warner automatic transmission. Also sold as the Austin Freeway.
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When cars were built for easy going comfort - rather than going round corners as fast as possible.
Ours had leather . They smelt beautiful inside . Reliable motoring from memory . Deep luscious duco and gleaming chrome exterior . Top British automobile all around .
So glad you got the story of the engine correct. So many people confuse the "Blue Streak" engine with the improved C series engine used in the MG C and Austin 3 liter . If anyone doubts they are literally a stretched B series I can confirm they are. As a mechanic ( in NZ) I remember fitting one with a new set of Rings and Bearings by using one and a half sets of rings and bearings for the 1622 4 cly B series engine.
Gorgeous example of a car that oozes charm. You half expect the dashboard clock to have a pendulum. Stunning.
This could have been my Fathers 24/80 except his had Green upholstery; it would have been the first car I drove on the road. Thanks for the memories
I had a Vauxhall Ventura 3.3l powerglide that used to change up at low speeds. Turned out a linkage had dropped connecting the carburettor throttle assembly with the gearbox. Once fixed, a 30 sec job, it went to 60 mph in first full throttle, instead of changes occurring under 20 mph. Even the dealer didn't realise there was a problem.
Borg Warner Waftamatic gearbox,so laid back! That's the sort of classic I'd like to own,a lazy cruiser for a Sunday afternoon trundle. Lovely car.
Ian's comments of it quickly changing up from 1st to 2nd are a result of not using kick-down. 2nd and 3rd are the running gears with first being there for when all else fails with a family of 6 in the car towing a large caravan.
Holidaying from south Cumbria to Scarborough was just too tempting an opportunity for Dad to take the caravan up Sutton Bank. Of course the Mk1 3 litre Granada Ghia managed that task - dropping all the way down to 2nd ! (I'm pretty sure 1st wasn't needed - but would have been if we'd got stopped on the hill and needed to restart !
I had to laugh when you mentioned Wolsley started out as a sheep shearing company. As a kid, whenever I heard the name Wolsley my mind imagined 5 sheep cruising around in a car 😂
Cutting edge technology.....
“Woolseley” comes to mind...
Thanks for the memories. My Grandad had one.
Tasmania, yes the heater better be very good!
I agree...and they were pretty good. Ingenious heater controls when you take them apart and look at the,...nice piece of engineering.
We had the Austin Freeway, bought new in '63. I think...My dad decided to replace his ancient Sheerline with another Austin. It served us faithfully until we bought a Kimberley. That decision was the end of his love affair with Austins. Fragile suspension, unbelievably thirsty motor, but what a lovely driver!
I owned one of these beauty's - but not for as long as I wanted. It had a Borg Warner auto transmission that in 2 years shat itself twice only to be replaced after the second rebuild. I loved that car, but she left me hung out to dry on remote roads three times. She now sits, rusting away on a sand and dead car mound in the Evanston district of South Australia. You can see her from the Gawler bypass. Just a rusting hulk now.
Great.car.l.grow.wool.sheep.so.connected.australia.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
When I was a kid an elderly lady who lived up the street used to frequently drive past in one of those, she always indicated the wrong way as she turned every corner and never turned the turn signal off, and for years the car had no rear window. I recall always spotting her heading towards me, indicator still flashing left from the last right turn and it looked like nobody was driving... she was just barely peering over the wheel...
Priceless.
Had two family holidays towing a caravan with Austin Farinas back in the 60s. One with an A55 in '67, next year with an A60 making it down to Lands End (and back) from SW London.
This takes be back. My grandmother had one of these in white. I can remember sitting in the back peering over the red interior and it looked exactly like that. Except so much bigger 😁
As long as you weren't peeing over the red interior your gran must have been proud.
This Wolseley sounds very very similar to my dad’s Wolseley six landcrab automatic as it accelerates . I’m loving it. Pete UK
Serene comfort and a badge on the grille that glows in the dark. What more could you want!
My Papa’s car he used to take to the shops in this car when I was little lad…. Even had the same blue badge on the front grill so thanks for the video
The sound of the slightly off-the-beat indicaticator relay, and the flashing green light in the stalk, take me tight back.
Relay ? Not in them days mate - a genuine thermal flasher unit ! Which, despite Australian temperatures, takes a while to warm up ! Maybe the bulbs are under-powered !
@@millomweb There's a relay in the flasher hence the tick. The thermal bit just does the timing, and the relay switches the bulbs
@@Graham_Langley Not in them days ! It's the thermal bit you can hear flipping from one shape to the other - and back.
Here's a view inside one: lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tnG5fVXFPY8KEmUCkQr-ZGkvQRLBNpLB65LEay_BfEqROJAj6bN6bc3PJpBwjxevSIuU7fj4cCJSMtXimEffJFH9x4ZzPwj4PR_fHTyrA_rxnLmQ8z4Kdf3yEq3Bp5t_kQ6cr_8N - not a relay in sight !
@@millomweb I sit corrected, although the one in the link does look unbelievably crude. Only one I've had to take apart was in a '66 Imp after it filled with water from a failed wiper or washer seal - it was fitted terminals up on the column support IIRC.
@@Graham_Langley And did that have a relay in it ?
BL/BMC used smaller brick-shaped things: www.britishbikebits.com/media/catalog/product/p/1/p1030672.jpg - and these were very basic - the rectangular shape housed a flattish kinked piece of bi?metal, a stop and a contact post. Very basic ! They used a modified version for hazards late last century. Of course, back in the 60s, I don't think hazards were a thing !
Lovely car. For me, this is much more interesting than a souped up Holden Ute. Thanks Ian.
Stick a V8 in it and it'll be more interesting lol
Aussie cars leave me cold.
Turn the heater on mate
There were plenty of these around. I still have one, they had a bit of market share for a while.
Yep, plenty of these about. I bought mine in 1981 and they were common.
I bought one of these in 1985 here in NZ. Loved that car!!!!!! I called it HEAVY METAL……. I wish I still had it. Was a manual 3 speed. Exact same colour as what you have there. Paid $850 for it.
My dad had a Wolsely 16/22 when I was a kid battleship grey over maroon. He said it drank like a fish and was too slow. I remember I liked the interior with its maroon leather (vinyl?) and wood everywhere. That’s until I sat in it with my shorts on in the Summer! Freezing seats in the winter as well!
In Dunedin NZ .mid 1960s ..my family had two 16/60s. one after the other. Lovely cars and no problems in the hill suburbs. ..In ,1977 I bought a similar car 1963 model...reg AG1212. With two preschoolers in their car seats it was a beautiful and relaxing car to drive and long trips about 300km were no trouble at all..speed limit 100km/hr.
What a beautiful car there's nothing nicer than a straight 6 brilliant video Ian
Thanks so much . I enjoyed this . Love the Farina Wolseleys. Cheers and keep up your very much appreciated videos and your chats. Great stuff. John (Australia)
Thank you for the enlightenment upon 50s badge engineering, a lovely lazy boat of a ride, the dash clocks are just gorgeous, a sumptuous little thing it is and in good nick.
Driving along with you, my mind generated the smell of old English cars, which I think is mostly leather and petrol. Deeply evocative, even though I know this lovely car's seats are vinyl.
My dad has a Volvo Amazon. Years back he was in south London and this bloke stuck his head through the window "Beautiful car mate! Ahhh you can smell the levver" The only leather in it was a pair of shoes..
Same here, I used to own a Mk1 24/80 back when I was a teenager, lovely car and had all those smells like you describe...I was lucky as the leather upholstery in mine was in immaculate condition.
Top tip for when you go to sell a luxury car; Soak a rag in some leather cleaner then bung it under one of the seats.
The smell of unburned petrol as a '60s car goes past always surprised me. Did they always run that rich and we never noticed?
Beaut!
I had an old Wolseley Six. The most comfy armchair I ever drove.
Lovley 😊
I owned 1937 Wolseley 14/56 leafsprings and dampers combined with very well spurng seats. That put my more modern car to shame. The dampers were amazing. Soaked up the rumble strips at 40mph yet in the modern thud thud thud. I was stunned at how good the old levef arm dampers were.
Hooray! Somebody else actually likes lever arm shock absorbers! I think they give a slightly floaty, luxurious ride. But you're not allowed to say anything in their favour, by modern day thought police, who refuse to acknowledge anything before THEIR time could be good
This was my first car. A 1964 Mk 1. With 99000 miles on the clock and a handbook that said top speed of 84 MPH I clocked 99MPH one night and still going. I saw a highly modofied Mk2 beat a GTR down a main street one night and then I truely appreciated the Blue Streak.
I missed this film at the time. This seems like a lovely car. Fast enough, but probably fairly gutsy on fuel! A shame this was not issued in the UK.
Best wishes from George
Oh, I do like that. From memory, the Riley 4/72 kept the A55 bodyshell? I do remember these having a cavernous boot - my uncle's swallowed my much-loved go-kart in a way my Dad's Zodiac couldn't. Happy days...
One of my favourite cars in my home town. What’s not to love.
You saved the best 'till last, wipers!! Lovely piece of motoring history, nice vid Ian 👍❤
That’s such a lovely looking and sounding car. My dad had an Austin Cambridge, bought new in 1966, in Grampian Grey. It was a single colour car, without the lighter accent some had between the two chrome strips. It’s the first car of my parents that I (vaguely!) remember travelling in. We went on holiday to Ireland in it once from West Yorkshire, which I imagine was pretty unusual at the time. Dad kept the car for 5 years. The Cambridge had replaced a Mk 1 Cortina.
My father had a single-colour light grey A55 Farina. Used it to tow a caravan from SW London to Devon in '67 and remember spending time on that holiday polishing it back to a shine. It was replaced by an A60 in blue and white in time for the next year's holiday, this time towing a bigger caravan down to Lands End.
That got replaced by a red Renault 16, the first car my father bought new. Managed to break the windscreen with a stone kicked up by the lawnmower and damage the hatchback by driving it into the garage with it (the hatch) open within a few months.
Such a smooth engine. This car is all about covering ground in an easygoing, refined manner rather than desperately quickly and I'm totally ok with that.
The engine sounds absolutely great!
jgv Gjv ; A three H4 SU carb intake was briefly released as an aftermarket item. 116 flywheel hp gross, and they raced them at Phillip Island and even Mount Panaroma if I recall. The B series 6 cylinder version of the 1622 was a really fine engine. My uncle Murray Stevenson had an Austin Freeway 2.4 litre...great car! The thing that killed them after 3 years of good work was a bunch of US inspired HD and HR Holdens and AP5/6 Valiants and the crazy, glitzy XM and XP Falcons and Futura hardtops...not any better but aggressively marketed by the Big Three GM-H, Chrysler Prty and Ford Australia. The marketing wagon rode to a Church, Scouts Guides or gentlemans or ladies cultural center near you and the shear gloss of publicity handouts overwhelmed the richest Commenwealth Colonial outpost in the realm. All BMC had to do was play the same game Vauxhall did with the Velox, Creata Vicount and Ventora and they woukd have owned that Australian market too. Instead, a backward steo to the Austin 1800 four and then a hike up to the Kimberly and Tasman. A conservative 4 inch wider Freeway was designed in England, but although it would have sold well in Australia BMC was already imploding in 1965 with a raft of production line consuming modle profliferations. The wide body BlueStreak Six would have looked like a 504 Peugeot three years before it hit Europe. If only.....
I disagree that the Holdens, Fords & valiants were “no better” in fact they were far far better than these cars, singling out power alone the slant six 225 ci & 273 V8’s of the valiants, the 186 ci Holdens especially the X2’s & 186 “s” engines of the HR’s and the 170 pursuit & 200 ci “super pursuit” engines in the XP Fairmont were what we Australians wanted @ the time that l remember well, it certainly wasn’t about marketing.
James Govett : Actually, yeah, you are right. I see your point. The Wayferer ute, the Safari Station Wagon...The big three offered size, engine power, relaxed cruising with 2.92 and 3.08 axle ratios and 20 to the Imperial Gallon. It was really width that sold in the wide open spaces of Australia. The six seater wide body 327 option Holdens did it too. The AP6 273 Regal was the first to drive that message home, then the XR Falcon. I was born in 1970, so my comments are outside your time domain. Our AP5 had 145 hp gross from 225 cubic inches, our 58 PA Vauxhall Velox, 77.9 hp from a 2.26 litre six. Our non ADR 27 Kiwi spec 1975 Cortina XL 2000, 112 hp gross or 98 hp net. The power race was vertical between 1958 to 1965. BMC languised primarily due to engine power and a lack of suspension competance. Between 1950, when Austin was number one in Austrailia, and 1965, the failure was to adapt to TransAtlantic styling and better engine power BMC couldnt cope with making six seater bench seat cars that could drop 18 second quarter miles and still do 18 miles per gallon like a Jag could. The basics were right...the wide body six seater, six cylinder Farina was rejected. The last 2.6 litre Humber Super Snipe suffered the same fate. The P5 B Rover and Jansen variants and British Pressed Steel Volvo P1800s were all moving to the American ideal, but Great Britians BMC didnt adopt the 1966 wide body six seater ideal the Mark 10 Jag and Cresta and Mark IV Zephyr did. The Europeans and everyone except GM and Ford Europe turned there back against wide body six seater bench seat cars.
Brilliant, another gorgeous vehicle. While driving it just seems to glide, taking bumps with aplomb. And the sound, glorious.
mate what a retro ride at its best love it .
Lovely, and nicely original too. Such a pleasant engine sound and what a pity it wasn't utilised in more cars. Cheers.
These were wonderful old cars. My grandmother had an Austin Freeway, which was basically the same car down to the six cylinder, just not as luxurious. I think she got an HQ Holden afterwards.
Oh wow! What an absolute gem of a video, this really has to be one of my top favourite ones!!! Thank you so much - you've uncovered such a splendid array of glorious yet mysterious cars on your AUNZ trip!!! I've always had a soft spot for the Farinas as a child...I'd mentally group them together with the similarly styled Peugeot 404 (also a Pininfarina design), and our local FIAT 1800/2100 lineup. Sadly in Italy these were never popular, and never went beyond being an expensive exotica for peculiar anglophiles...they were expensive in the day, and although more similar in size and performance to the (much more purposeful and cheaper) FIAT 1300/1500, they would end up in the price bracket of the [bigger, roomier, much more refined, 6-cylinder] FIAT 1800. I loved seeing them out and about in the '70s during my frequent summer trips to the UK. I remember the high revving engines, the whiny transmissions, and the spluttering exhausts. But boy were they slow! Pity because I loved the styling and the very British, very proper, very classy interior. I really like the idea of a 6-cylinder version. That engine sounds absolutely magnificent; a world apart from the 1489cc one.... That is the sort of driving that I would enjoy...lazy, relaxing, soft, regal ("Elizabethan" I suppose one could say?). And never mind the meagre 80bhp. I must say I liked a Westminster better, not to mention a VdP iteration, but this would still be a welcome addition to my dream garage of British quirky exoticas!
I love how they fitted a six cylinder engine in there and yet there's so much room round about it. Beautiful car.
Glad you explained that was a chair in the boot - for a second I thought it was vulnerable fuel tank pipework! ;-)
These cars always needed a six cylinder engine. That rough old four was a complete mismatch to the luxury wood and leather interior. What a pity BMC didn't have the imagination to offer a six cylinder option in the UK.
Is this engine significantly smaller than a C series I wonder? I would have thought that a 3 litre version would have appealed to Aussies.
2.4 litres, so a little smaller.
HubNut If the idea was to give it more power can't for the life of me understand why it didn't have twin carbs.
If you ever owned anything with twin SUs you would know. You could feel them go utility of tune within weeks. Also the desire was for torque not peak bhp, so no reason for power tuned carbs.
Same indicator as the old land crab...ahh..brings back memories of my dads old car..👍
Ditto my gran's Morris Minor. Bulb in the stalk is L.E.S.
"Blue streak" was a british ballistic missile programme development started in 1954 with the first flight in 1964 and final cancellation in 1971. The missiles were tested in Australia, so the engine name may be a nod to that.
Maybe, however Riley had a 2.5 4-cyl (not a 6) just before the war, 37, 38, 39, and the cars with that engine were called Blue Streak. The engine was referred to as the Big Four. Riley was then absorbed into Nuffield group in 38,39. The Big Four engine was used in some post-war “Nuffield Rileys” . E.g. RMB, RMF. So, Blue Streak name was already in the group.
@@Mancozeb100 that's an interesting bit of synchronicity.
Great car I had a MK I and did over 100K miles back in the 1970,s.
The 6 cyl Heart of the Beast, makes it the BEAST 😁
I love its Classic Look!
A thing of beauty to be sure.
Yep, I could live with one of those quite easy, trouble my imaginary garage just keeps filling up. Ha ha. Nice one again Ian, keep well.
Thank you. This is the one I've been waiting for. We had a new 16/60 in 1969. Ancient, even then but the clunk of those doors made it all worthwhile. You could change up to fourth at 18mph.
Brother- In- law had a 16/60 back in the day in two tone green. I can remember the walnut dash and leather seats, lovely looking car.😊
When I was a child, an old lady at my church had an Austin Freeway, which she bought new, with the 3 speed automatic.
She passed away before the car ever died in the early 90's.
I have often thought that this 6 cylinder B engine was totally unknown outside Australia... it was easily transformed by fitting MG A pistons, having the camshaft ground to A specs and off you go !
Saw this last week, how wonderful , wouldn't it be lovely to get one of these and import it and take it to shows. Brilliant . And well done to the owner for such a wonderful restoration
What a fantastic review of a fantastic car. My dad owned a six cylinder Wolseley six in 1973 and as a kid I grew to love the sound of a six cylinder engine. Pete 🇬🇧
Have searched for years for a decent video on this car. It's always been one of my favourite classic cars. What nostalgia! Many thanks.
Check out Peter Anderson's channel:
czcams.com/play/PLSL5PUw3f6deeqS7qKTvZd9tevTXPgKQQ.html
He does a full restoration series on a 24/80 Mk 1 (I think). Lovely motor ... I've owned a Mk 1 and a Mk 2 ... the first was written off after saving my life ((SOLID beast!); the second died off poverty-induced, unfortunately. Cheers.
I owned one of these when I was 19. It was powder blue and it had been owned by the wife of a local dignitary.
It had no brakes when I bought it and they weren't much better when I sold it.
It went OK but I'd just come from a 3.6l manual Falcon with working brakes so I didn't fall in love with it.
Thanks for the review
What a lovely old thing
Always the first thought please tell me the badge still lights up.
Look at those beautiful wings when you had the bonnet up and the view through the windscreen, marvelous 👍
I've a feeling not all the badges did light up but yes, the question went through my mind too !
@@millomweb not sure myself but it's always my first thought when I see a Wolseley 😀 Don't know if you've seen the stunning MG e-motion concept but it's badge lights up, hopefully that will be carried over when it's finally released.
@@stepheng8779 No, I haven't.
Hope it's not red (nose) !!
The badges should always light up, right through to the rare Wolseley wedge. This one did, but you couldn't see it in the light.
@@HubNut 👍👍😀
The Wolseley 24/80 shared all but the grill with the Austin Freeway. Virtually the same in every way. The 2.4l 6 had more than enough torque to pull a caravan. I learned to drive in my grandmother's 65 freeway. Only thing that was horrible was the radiator fan was loud.
I had a Riley 4/72 (72hp twin carb 4-cylinder) and the twin carbs didn’t really help improve highway cruising, as the engine was turning close to 4000rpm at about 60mph. A comparison was made between the Riley 4/72 and one of these and the conclusion was the additional 8hp was somewhat negated by the extra weight of the 2400 lump. Once again many thanks for the video, pleasure to watch as always.
Love old Wolselys, my grandfather had a 16/60 when i was kid, lovely old thing, ive always fancied a 1500
Thanks, Ian, what a lovely car. The light on the indicator stalk and relay sound reminds me of my first car, a cream 1964 mk1 Austin 1100. Nice, simple dashboard, dominated by the most beautiful analogue clock I have ever seen in a car. Great video.
What a beautiful car! Love it, great post Lord HB..
Cars like this beauty were the first target of our at the time primary school teachers, and they are just such quiet noble saloons. Great find, just don't know how you do it Sir 👍 Tam.
A beautiful car, but amazing that a 2.4l had such little power in 1965. Just 20 years later some very mundane 1.3s were putting out more power.
Not much power - but very flexible. How many modern engines can manage with three gears?
@@SM-dt1pr I don't know. How many cars have been configured with three gears?
A typical modern 2.4 can quite happily set off in third and reach 80mph in that gear.
@@jasejj none lately.
Love the indicator stalks on these BMC cars, brilliant idea. More makes should have done this, I think.
They used to break easily,and the bulb used to blow you could unscrew they’d to replace it.
What a lovely car. I'd happily use that as a daily driver.
Ahhh, my late Dad's pride and joy (albeit his was a Mk I). I remember driving it around Mt Panorama (not on a race day) and it was very leisurely! Thanks, Ian.
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We have been using a 24/80 as a daily driver for the last seven years. It's no race car but it is reliable and comfortable. Great to see you did a test drive of one.
Great to see a video of my first car. Paid $175 in 1976, shaved 60th off the head,7" rims on her, sports steering wheel and 4 speed box and loved driving her in Inverell area.
Indeed a healthy Dose of Nostalgia! We had one like that in the mid 70s!!! It was manual 16/60. (slow, noisy) I remember that my mon was struggling to change gears (manual transmission) and turn the steering wheel (no power steering - based on Ball and Nut)!!
What an excellent example of this marquis. I have driven these here in New Zealand. Didn't see the advantage over the B series frankly
I do like those dials and got to love the flasher on the end of the stalk bring back tail fins
The 'Blue Streak 6' was named after a British/Australian space exploration rocket called 'The Blue Streak Rocket'!
Thankyou so much for your natural presentation of my favourite car. I was 17yrs old in 1973 and I advertised to buy one of these as I loved them then and never stopped loving them. I owned one eventually in 1982 and had it for many years. I want to get back to them now , still to this day. Great to see you in Tasmania. I live just 100klms from where you videod this. Keep up your natural manner. I can remember loving being in my Grandparents grey 15/60 Wolseley and when the famous actors Lorne Green, Michael Landon and Purnell Roberts came to Launceston from the show Bonanza, they were ferried from the Airport in two Wolseleys but with the higher fins at the back as this was 1964 and one Austin. I was so thrilled to be in the same model car. So the Wolseley was highly thought of as a "tasteful and refined vehicle. Cheers, John (Tasmania)
What a beautiful car
A version of this was used by the metropolitan police to their own spec and that could really shift its arse. All the car needed was radial tyres for more corner grip. All painted black with a single blue light on the roof and illuminated 'Police' sign. Looked very smart.
'Blue Streak' was Riley name in the late 1930s for the 2 1/2 litre 4 cyl 16HP (RAC) engine.
great video...thanks Ian. amazing historical detail
Thanks Ian, what a wonderful car, I had a 1964 Austin Cambridge back in the mid 90’s as my daily driver. Great car that just happily plodded along. One memorable trip around Cornwall ended with it coming back from Looe to Exmouth running quite lumpy. The following day after some investigation I found it had burnt out No.3 exhaust valve. Still got myself and some mates back
Smashing car and smashing video Mr Seabrook. I've never seen a wolseley farina in the flesh but it brings back memories of my grandad delivering milk in his austin a60 cambridge estate, while his moggie 1000 pickup was having a regular welding session. Thanks.
What a charismatic car! And that engine is one of the best sounding units this side of a Busso on song that I’ve heard! Brilliant.
Very enjoyable video Ian.
Enjoyed watching this brought back memories ❤️ of my Dad's 16 60 I used to sleep on the back seat after visiting cousins .We used to go hoppin every year in Kent but it kept breaking down .l also remember opening the front quarter light and it came off in my hand but I didn't drop it
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Omg my dream car.. I have a 16/60. But want to put a 6 cylinder in it.
I fancy a 6/110 with a 2JZ, could be a hell of a sleeper.
Beautiful styling touches. Looks like a real pleasure to drive . Just lovely 👌
Wow the sound is a leap into my childhood my father drove an Austin van for Hawleys bakery and Saturdays took me to Stratford upon Avon,the sounds of a six petrol,the sight of countryside and the smell of fresh bread was overwhelming to a boy born and bred (no pun intended) in Bordesley Green. Cheers Ian you’ve done it again.
Apparently a banger racing A60 trick was to put the Land Crab 1800S Downton head & twin carbs on the 1622cc block. Imagine an A60 with the full 1798cc 96bhp lump up front.
My Dad had a Cambridge when I was a kid, and I can't help thinking this model would have been more suited for Canadian conditions, for the same reasons as in Australia. Thanks for showing it!
Well done Mr. Hubnut. Nice old car for gentle cruising.
Will tell owner Brian that this has gone live. 👍
Thanks Peter. And thanks for helping arrange it.
Whereabouts in Tassie was that?
I've watched twice and can't figure it out 🙄
Mystery location.......called Burnie.
@@peterriggall8409 haven't been to Burnie for years, it's changed lol
I love this video. I’ve always loved wolsely since my dad had one back in 1973. I thought this particular example was utterly superb. If I could buy one right now I probably would as a usable classic. Thanks HubNut. Pete UK
Can only just remember these in the 70's along with the oxford's & cambridge's.
Beautiful chrome work and miss polishing the chrome with the autosol cleaner with my past 1960's & 1970's cars.
Lovely old car My Dad had the Wolsey 16/60 many years ago.
A very handsome vehicle.
Hubnut at its best, what a delight to watch!
I’ve been to eastern Tasmania during early august..... cabin heating in your car is MANDATORY!! Unless you want to freeze your buns off!
I used the plumbing and spin on oil filter from a blue streak onto my 1620 Morris J2 van. So much better than the cartridge filter.and it bolted straight on.
In 1962 when the Austin Freeway and the Wolseley 24/80 came out they were considered quite powerful, Holden were still selling the grey motor which was only produced 60hp. Unfortunately for BMC Chrysler brought out the Valiant followed by Holden in 1963 with the red motor in the EH.
The Holden 48-215 started with 60hp, but with each new model the power crept up. Compression , cam and slightly larger pistons later. Holden were up to 75hp by the EK and EJ around the Freeway and 24/80 introduction. But within a year they went 100hp for the 149 red and 115hp for the 179 as Holden new they were lagging Valiant and Ford Falcon in ads. People at the time, thought the 179 EH Holden was a rocket ship with near 50% power increase over the EJ. Valiants 225 six even more seen as a supercar back then for people willing to pay the Valiant premium price.
Torque delivery less recorded but felt by buyers more than power perhaps, but still an edge over BMC.
I had this exact car in at work yesterday. Absolute pearl, my series 2 Land Rover 109 loves brickport road so much 20mph is about all it'll give me up there
I'd forgotten about that little green light on the indicator stalk, memories of watching that on night drives with my grandfather. Cheers
That was Tassies peak hour traffic as you pulled out the gate lol
I remember the Hillman Hunter / Vogue / Sceptre had LHD wipers on the RHD dash.
The 24/80 is the aussie take of the 6/110 & 6/99.
You make a couple of references to the P76, another aussie icon.
The smaller P76 engine ( inline 6, 2600cc ) was also shared with the aussie Morris Marina, never seen one in the flesh.
We did get the odd-ball Morris Nomad estate in New Zealand 🇳🇿 in small numbers.
Love your presentation, as always.❤😊
Thanks. Drove a P76 and a Morris Marina 6 during this trip!
@@HubNut wondered 🤔 whether that extended to review of the Morris Marina 6?
Never seen one across the Tasman , only read 📚 about them.🤔🍻
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