Austin 1300 test drive/review

[@MyJon64]

My mother had one, was Ziebarted from new. It was still on the road 15 years after she sold it. It was 10 years old with 90000 miles on the clock when she sold it. Excellent car.

[@nygelmiller5293]

To My Jon. OH! So the Ziebart REALLY did work then! I can actually top that story, regarding this car's followup - the Austin Allegro. I bought mine, ( which been garaged) when it was already 9 years old. I didn't have a garage unfortunately, and kept it for a further 12 years. So 21 years old then, and at about 45000 miles, in fine settle. My neighbour bought it for his son's 21st birthday, because both the son, and the car were from the same year! The Allegro was only just starting to rust, because I didn't have a garage for the last 12 years. But otherwise perfect - BECAUSE THAR HAD ALSO BEEN Z I E B A R T E D from new! Don't believe snobs who knock British things!

[@niceviewoverthere4463]

My 1971 1300 collapsed onto the jack at 5 years old as the jacking point was so rusted out. Spent heaps on welding over the next 3 years but then the kind MOT man took it off me when the rear subframe 'fell' up into the car and lifted the back seat up. Loved that car to death. Shame they were made so badly with all those rust traps.

[@jb3222]

I love your enthusiasm for this little gem of a car. My family owned several 1100/1300s in the 60s and 70s and I wish I could have my MG version back!

[@ProjectNigel]

I think it's fantastic, and it's great with its subsequent cameo appearances 🙂

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

Lovely little car, back when things were simple, do love the sound of a A series Engine.

[@peteraaron8626]

I love these cars, especially the 1100 - the car of my childhood. LOVE the colour of this 1300.

[@Dick-Dastardly]

The A series engine & transmission has a simple elegance and an exceedingly pleasant soundtrack all of its own. A generous amount of corrosion was indeed an un-optional extra making this Mustard 1300 a wonderful and rare sight. An Oscar nomination is surely inevitable for the introduction! 😃

[@ProjectNigel]

Such an agreeable comment 😊

[@frimleyfrodo]

What a beauty! Fond memories of these being regular family transport for many when I was a child.

[@thomaswalker1258]

It looks like it’s a mini mixed with an MGB GT and have added an extra 2 doors. Great review and great video as usual

[@willswheels283]

I had 2 of these back in the early 2000’s an Austin 1300 and Wolseley 1300, great cars, drives like a big original mini. Worst problem was the corrosion, just like the Minj they rusted for fun.

[@ProjectNigel]

This is a lovely solid example 🙂

[@CortinasAndClassics]

I need to find one to have a drive in. When I was a teenager in the 90's I spotted a Riley Kestrel ADO16 in blue with a white roof. It was in a bit of a state but I fell for it, sadly not long later it was taken and crushed.

[@VauxhallViva1975]

6:30 - The heater matrix on these cars was prone to filling up with gunk. A completely clean or new one, actually pumps out a reasonably nice amount of hot air when it is cold outside, but if you DON'T pull out the heater assembly and recon the matrix(or replace it), then they hardly put out any heat at all! ;) I have four of these kinds of cars. One is an 1100 which is currently street-legal, one is a "Flame Orange" 1300 GT, one is a standard 1300 and the other one is an 1100 sitting in a shipping container at present. They are lovely wee cars, and the hydrolastic suspension system gives them a fantastic ride, even today after so much time.

[@stephinepaul7483]

Lovely little Car. There's still a few of these "Austin America's" still roaming around over here.

[@finleyplympton]

My mum had a morris one known as Doris the Morris - last on road in 1985

[@musicdpk]

Thanks for reviewing and posting- very enjoyable. My Mum had one exactly the same, from 78 to 86 - a 1300 and the colour

[@buckwheatINtheCity]

The GREAT Alec Issigonis! 😌

[@Simoncarcapers]

One of my all time favourite cars.. We had 3 as family cars. With the last one being the same colour HGH277 N. Great review and channel. Keep up the good work Captain Mustard👍

[@ProjectNigel]

Thank you 🙂

[@laurataylor824]

What a lovely little car , I want one

[@paulchenery8013]

This was a great review. I had an Austin 1300 Countryman. A great car.

[@peterriggall8409]

A Bonny little car old chap. Love the trendy colour…..its back in you know.

[@badbooks476]

Watched this vid because of your latest convoy Vid. Beautifully kept 1300, I had a colleague in the mid 90s with an estate version in the same colour. Very stylish design compared to the Allegro

[@davidlipski863]

I remember my dads friend who was a trader taking me to the auction in Poole in 1975 to help me buy my 1st car. The Austin 1100s were going through between £40 and £100 and i was told to stay away from them we bought an Anglia 1200 1964 model for £120 i had it for 6mths and we put a 1500 engine and 5 1/2 J wheels on, ran it for 12mths sold for £100 and bought a Viva 1600 SL. The Austin 1300 GT was the car to have for the extra speed.

[@SteveDull]

Just beautiful.The car - not you obviously 😊

[@benspears5073]

What a cheery little car this is, it belongs to senior mustard I do believe? And he’s the mystery man 😅

[@ProjectNigel]

He's not that mysterious 😄

[@metalman4141]

Bad memories for me these cars as I seemed to spend a lot of my apprenticeship welding the buggers up mainly the front end , I still remember the stink of burning under seal and paint !!

[@minimaxi802]

The Vanden Plas models have survived in larger numbers than the cheaper Austin and Morris.

[@nygelmiller5293]

To MiniMaxi. There could be a reason why Vanden Plas models survived longer. Regarding the larger 1800 series, I DO know that the Wolseley company did have some say still in the group of companies, British Leyland. They sprayed the insides of the doors with protective was, which DID make their cars last longer - so I imagine this also would have been the same at Vanden Plas, and presumably Riley too.

[@NapalmBond]

Like my first car. I installed spot lights, reversing lights and a heated rear window. Killed it with in 6 months of ownership.

[@barryjackson8512]

I had one in the mid 90s. Had a tiny little steering wheel and 14” wheels and a cherry bomb. Great fun for the £80 I paid for it 🤣

[@nygelmiller5293]

In the BACK of most cars at the time, although they didn't normally open, there were also quarterlight windows. There was MORE of a reason to HAVE them in the back. Whether ir not they opened. The rear doors were "cut away" for intrusion by the wheel arches at the bottom. As a result, the wind down windows in the back can't wind down as far as in the front - unless the winding windows "start further forward" to clear the wheel intrusions. Hence the quarterlights above! Hope that's not clear as mud!

[@chrisleggatt3240]

Got 7 people in mine when I was 17, 4 on the back seat 2 in the front and 1 very disgruntled mate in the boot.

[@martinbelairy8155]

My first car was a 1300 left hand drive with a nice hood ornament flying bird

[@AliMackMechanical]

A very simple little car but a reliable car of the time. Think a lot of the rust at the time had to do with British steal always being on strike. I could be wrong lol.

[@garfieldtait5584]

The air vents would be "Fresh Air" vents. Air taken directly from the front of the car via ducting. Not a heater blowing cold air. They were great on a warm day.

[@invisibleink2644]

My recollection of these vehicles is that they were unreliable death traps that spent most of the time at the side of the road rather than on it.

[@hoddy121john]

Very nice car, senior mustard got more cars , apart from this little beauty and his p5.

[@markhealey9409]

😍😍 beautiful & great colour!

[@NuttyAboutOldMGCars]

Picked that up for a club member in Manchester from Liecrster garage where it was hibernating circa 1995

[@CynicalLemonade]

When you started the engine in the layby, I could smell the unburnt petrol and the fumes like I was there! Could you use it as a daily driver? Yes but my memory of this era of car was that the windscreen never demisted properly and everyone drove around wiping a circle of condensation off the glass with their cuffs! This obviously meant that nobody could see properly and consequently there were more of those head-on crashes that you mentioned. Lovely bit of nostalgia but leave it for the car meets.

[@richardbooth4573]

where I live its minivans, SUVs, and pick up trucks. most of whom dont signal. Guess they expect you to mind read.😁😁😁

[@eddiejones.redvees]

The car I passed my driving test in my dads Austin I300 first time it was probably down to the car being easy to drive

[@yekateradiffin5939]

These cars remind me of gearboxes that made a different whin in reverse excpet these do it going forward as well, it's along time since they made cars were you could hear the transmission

[@chrisleggatt3240]

Something happened to my gear lever, it lost the mechanism that held the H shape, only I could still select the gears, it was like changing gear with a wooden spoon in a circular washing up bowl, no-one else managed to drive it so I left it unfixed as a security measure.

[@daniellapus636]

Favourite car Austin eleven hundred But it was due to be phased out in my nation.so we bought a ford cortina model.

[@leeallen7585]

My Dad had one it was a very dark green that looked black....Can't remember what year it was but it was called Charlie

[@leonardgoldberg2879]

A practical car. But they rotted worse than the old Mini's.

[@richardbooth4573]

When did these cars go from 1100 to 1300 ? Was that in 71 ?

[@richardbooth4573]

What's the last year for the 1100 ?

[@b4tm4nrubin33]

And two years on you have become an Audi drivers 😅😅😅

[@richardbooth4573]

Can we say the same about the Austin America ? Not the same car , is it ? In fact the good quality of the 1100 is quite lost on the one sold to Americans . measurements are cockeyed . they rust badly. the suspension didnt hold up. the strange angle of the steering wheel underpowered so couldn't compete with the Japaneese motor industry which used ironically Mcphereson struts and rack n pinion steering. their drivetrains were more reliable and more powerful. and Germany with VWs and BMWs outdid Britishleyland. Just Minis and Jags left.

[@Sa.dang_PPJ5896]

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