Friends' Gallery Picture of the Month - June 2025

[Ray White]

I noticed there were no sidelights in the old photo, then I see the car in the later photo...and there are no lights at all. !!

[Tony Press]

On the original car the flyaway mudguards look to be much more generous with full infill panels and a small running board. 

I think this gives a better appearance than the small guards.

Much like the original road going 'Ulster' with full guards and running board and not cycle guards- the body designers at Austins knew their jobs.

[Mike Costigan]

As you say, Tony, the original Burghley wings are much more substantial:

   

I suspect the car in my original post has had the headlamps moved from the scuttle to the front, the scuttle brackets look too substantial for the little sidelights.

[Duncan Grimmond]

I used the photo of those "butterfly" wings as a guide when I built my first special all those years ago. I gather the purchaser hasn't driven it at all in the dozen or so years since he bought it. Polished and "blinged" up, it sits in a showroom... carefully rebuilt engine not quite "run in" and then left to deteriorate, heigh ho!

[austin]

Photo of same car taken at the same time without being cropped.