Austin it's his one day

[austinmorris1300]

[gazz81]

That looks well smart, I wouldn't even bother painting it, couple of coats of laquer would be perfect!

[austinmorris1300]

Jun 30, 2016 17:36:59 GMT gazz81 said:

That looks well smart, I wouldn't even bother painting it, couple of coats of laquer would be perfect!

It crossed my mind to I love it but my wife hates it thinks it's embarrassing sitting outside so paint it must be ,
Just cant decide a the colour the engine bay is bmw mini pepper white or old english white but since doing that few years back I've since gone off it a bit .

[gazz81]

Got to be beige or brown!

[MK2VR6]

White looks perfect on them.

[The Jackeria]

oof, imagine that in perfect, deep black. Looks great so far!

[austinmorris1300]

Always liked this one with red trim I think the wheels are photo image alter as the subframe,s would of needed shorten,ed to get those rims under the original body
Looks great though!

[ratchart]

funnily enough I was looking at a stock one ofthes yesterday and wondering why you never see modified ones. Looking at this proves I'm right in thinking how good they can look.

[Waxoyling Lyrical]

Engine looks interesting; is that an alloy cylinder head, or just painted silver? And what carb(s) are you running?

My parents used to own a Harvest Gold Austin 1100/1300 (can't recall which) years ago.

[austinmorris1300]

Rust killed them, panels are getting stupid to buy for a rear arch repair panel only approx 130.00 quid
Now it is shame as they are very cool modified .

[slater]

Lovely stuff. Ive been aching to build a decent ado16 for 10 years or more but it always ends up bottom of the pile. (even bought one once but was forced to sell again)

As somone has alluded too their big problem. The wheel offset. Otherwise such an easy car to 'do' and never been done.

[SmokeEm]

That is all kinds of awesome. Had one as a teenager and loved it!

Bookmarked

[farinafan]

had a few of there in different variations over the years all great to drive and easy to work on

[austinmorris1300]

Jun 30, 2016 20:11:30 GMT Waxoyling Lyrical said:

Engine looks interesting; is that an alloy cylinder head, or just painted silver? And what carb(s) are you running?

My parents used to own a Harvest Gold Austin 1100/1300 (can't recall which) years ago.[/quote

Hi the head is cast unfortunately a series alloy heads are a bit pricey you do get a good effect with silver engine spray ,

The carb is a progressive ford webber twin choke .

[Waxoyling Lyrical]

Interesting. How do you find it runs with the Weber? I've tried Webers on various engines including the BMC A-series, B-series and Fiat twin cam, and never had much joy with them - they all had problems such as bad idle, overfuelling, difficult to start, etc., etc.

[austinmorris1300]

I have yet to find out , I fully rebuilt the carb with the engine rebuild it needs 2 or 3 pumps of the throttle peddle and it fires almost every time . Tick over is very smooth as for actually driving I have yet to see
It still needs the mixture set up I have bought the gunson colour tune kit i keep meaning to get around to that job but as many things it's on the list of to do,s figures crossed .
If not possibly to a large single su .

[moggyman]

Tartan Red FTW!

[ed325i]

My brothers old one.

Ed

[austinmorris1300]

Nice I've seen this one before wheels look good and a decent job made extending the wheel arches ,
I wonder where it is now showing sorned on dvla .

[duggers]

My mum had an MG1300 iirc and i always quite liked the two tone OEW/BRG scheme that had. Twin SU's would work well if the weber is troublesome.