Curbside Classic Clue
Published: April 20th, 2010
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Last week’s Checker Marathon tailgate was tough enough. And then Dr Lemming has to go and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with this comment: I’m not remembering a wagon with such a pronounced horizontal character line right above the bottom of the tailgate. For example, I don’t think it is a Checker wagon. Oi veh! Congratulations on your certainty anyway. Have fun!
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Well, it's a British marque, from the steering wheel, exported to N.A., from the left-hand drive, and it's not a Riley 1.5, it's not a A40, nor is it a A30, because the dash layout doesn't match any of those. It's too small to be a Morris Oxford/MG Magnette/Austin Cambridge, and as Wolseley wasn't imported here, it's got to be a Morris Minor. It's got a solid windscreen, so it's from 1956 on, probably a '56 or '57.
Austin A40 Devon (I suppose it could be a two door Dorset but those are a bit more rare and probably all hot rodded by now). I actually have a workshop manual for these. They have a funky brake set up with the fronts being hydraulic and the rear being mechanical. Most still came with the crank handle to start them (they do have a starter as well) - the engine is an early relation to the MG B.
1948 or 1949 Austin A40 Devon. No question.
@Redox, it is so not a Peugeot.