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A-35 fantasy

aeronca65t

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SOme of you may know that I am currently re-building my old Austin A-35 as a historic race car.

My neighbour, Rick is a commercial artist. Rick hadn't really noticed the Austin before but he noticed it recently and was fascinated by it.
Rick has done some car designs for GM and other car companies and he's sort of a car-guy (he normally drives an old Volvo 1800 ES). He worked with Pierre Cardin to design the Pierre Cardin Cadillac that came out in '80 (he owns the original show car).

Anyway, he drew this neat, fantasy version on my A-35 as a British Gentleman with a monocle. Pretty cool.

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aeronca65t

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Thanks lads. I'm on the A30/A35 forum so I have pretty good access to spares (hope I don't need any body panels, though).

The A-35 is getting a 1275 engine from a '73 Midget with 10:1 pistons, race cam and bigger twin carbs. (engine is already sitting in it right now as I work out the header design).

It's also getting rhd rack and pinion to replace the old-skool steering box (this came from Drew).

The orginal 948 from this car is in the '73 Midget. Which is street registered and runs great, by the way.
 

racingenglishcars

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I'm sure you remember this lovely panel job from a few years ago.

[video]https://s183.photobucket.com/user/frogeye61/media/Links1/austin_uheld.mp4.html[/video]

https://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x288/frogeye61/Links1/P8030026.jpg

https://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x288/frogeye61/Links1/P8030025.jpg

He repaired it without any new panels.

https://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x288/frogeye61/Links1/IMG_1570s.jpg

I just saw it on the street in Copenhagen last Saturday looking very well indeed.

https://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x288/frogeye61/Links1/Austin13-07-06-1_zps6e307cd3.jpg


https://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x288/frogeye61/Links1/Austin13-07-06-2_zps9201309b.jpg
 

billspohn

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Cute - I had plans at one time to take a Triumph Mayflower we had and stick a tuned TR-4 driveline and brakes into it - much the same result.
 

Dinky

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I know Neil too, The Dutch A30/A35 owners Produce high quality repair panels that are prefect for an Austin
 
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