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 West Eyreton  A40 Ute  

Details of this car are as follows:

 
Car................ Austin A40 Devon Ute/Pickup GQU5 47531
Colour........... Orange
Reg................ Dead
Engine............ 2G 186192
Cc Rating....... 1200cc (Austin "B' Series Motor)
Mileage.......... ? miles
Purchased...... West Eyreton, Canterbury

Bought 9th August 2007 Bought for parts.

A good friend, Brent Tamatea, is restoring one of these Utes, only his is an earlier model... the kind with a chrome car type grill. He has been in need of a good body for some time. Although he took the Woodbury Ute from me, it's turned out to be rather worse than we had expected. Hopefully this body will be okay for his project.

 

It also has A50/A60 Cambridge type running gear. It has the same brakes, brake shoes, brake drums and hubs. It has the same stud pattern as the A50 Cambridge as well, so Brent will have a choice of running either the original 16 inch rims, or going for 14 inch or 15 inch rims.

This Devon has a 1200cc B Series engine which looks to be quite good. I haven't tried starting it yet.

Don't laugh! We are getting rather short on A40 Devons here in NZ,
so I'm having to reduce  myself to picking up old bombs like these. <wide smile>

Sure! It's beautiful! Don't you think? :-)