Advertising Last completed movie pages 1959 Austin A40 'Farina' MkI [ADO8] Comments about this vehicle| Author | Message |
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◊ 2011-11-07 23:16 |
Unexpected find here. |
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◊ 2015-06-14 02:49 |
Was this model officially sold in the US? It's the only example on the site... |
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◊ 2015-06-14 03:25 |
Never seen anything saying it was. Or anything saying it was not. I can easily believe they tried it - the Minor was a steady seller in US, so was previous A40 Devon and even the dumpy A40 Somerset sold a few, so why not try the next A40?? Probably one of those we've-found-one-so-they-must-have-done situations. |
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◊ 2015-06-14 04:55 |
Just found another in US - /vehicle.php?id=402007 (in a film also has our only US Austin A40 Somerset Drophead Coupé). Two of them means definite sales effort. |
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◊ 2015-06-16 03:23 |
dsl - I was away this weekend and didn't have a chance to look this up. In the "Standard Catalog of Imported Cars 1946-1990", James Flammang says the A40 was re-introduced to the US market mid-1958, with a POE price of $1,795. For 1959, a Deluxe version was introduced that had chrome around the windows for $1,856. 1960 was a carryover year. For 1961, he says a wagon joined the sedan in both Standard and Deluxe versions. After that he says that sales to the US stopped. |
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◊ 2015-06-16 03:42 |
thanks - interesting. The wagon was not a real wagon - it was an opening rear window called Countryman. |
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◊ 2015-06-16 03:45 |
He mentioned that. |
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◊ 2015-06-16 04:21 |
Sales stopping in 1961 makes some sense because that was changeover to Mk2 [ADO44], and BMC presumably decided not to bother with the new one. UK did not have basic and Deluxe separation - just A40. |
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