'63 Austin Super De-luxe 1330cc

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'63 Austin Super De-luxe 1330cc

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Hi all.
As a new member, I thought I should add some more mk1 porn to your great collection.
The car's a 63 Austin that I've owned for nearly 20 years.. finally sorted and getting some use out of it!
I stripped it to a shell and rebuilt it mid 90s but the engine and box were only built 2012.
Hoping to get it to Blyton!
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Hello and welcome to the forum!

That is a gorgeous '63'! Mine is also an Austin of the same year in Almond Green running a 1293.

Fantastic stuff!

Cheers. Tim
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Hi and welcome!
Lots of '63's about evidently, mine's a Morris in Surf Blue / Old English White with a bog standard 850.

Love your car, very period mods :P
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;) Welcome, pritty car :lol:
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Lovely car Luke! Is that a 'floor start' button mounted under the dash rail on the driver's side...? Cracking idea if it is... ;)
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WMU 211G wrote:Lovely car Luke! Is that a 'floor start' button mounted under the dash rail on the driver's side...? Cracking idea if it is... ;)
Thanks! Yes it's just a floor start button, I presumed that was what they did on the works cars but i'm probably wrong! Works well though!
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coopertim wrote:Hello and welcome to the forum!

That is a gorgeous '63'! Mine is also an Austin of the same year in Almond Green running a 1293.

Fantastic stuff!

Cheers. Tim

Thanks Tim.
1963 must have been a good year, there seems to be quite a few left.
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I'm in the 63 club too (;
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Me too!
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I have to say I've also noticed a lot of surviving '63 cars about, must have been a vintage year , either that or they all got two goes through the Longbridge rotodip !! :lol:

You should form your own club ! :lol:
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That looks lovely!

I grew up around those parts too!
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What make is the centre exit exhaust Luke?

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Pete wrote:I have to say I've also noticed a lot of surviving '63 cars about, must have been a vintage year , either that or they all got two goes through the Longbridge rotodip !! :lol:

You should form your own club ! :lol:
You may not be joking there. January 1963 was the coldest since 1814! Even the sea froze in '63 see attached pics! Also a picture of Police mk1s in 1963!
If they thought the weather was set to continue they might have double dipped them so they would last more than a year! :roll:
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coopertim wrote:What make is the centre exit exhaust Luke?

Cheers Tim

It's a sportex, I've taken it off for the moment, I thought it may be too loud for Castle Combe so I put a RC40 on but I might put it back on or get a works type one from Somerford
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Now I understand that line "Life in a Northern Town".
"In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy and the Beatles"

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