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Solid result!

With barely over £100 spent, you should have plenty of spare dosh to shower Mrs Opti with gifts this time next week! 

exactly and that is why you will never get any mot  suprises .
personally with my own cars (omega,cavs,carlton,viva) they are all used in rotation all year round including winter commuting and every spring they all get a thorough wash off underneath and any issues sorted as and when found .this way i never worry about reliability or mot time .
as mentioned omegas are no worse than any other cars to keep up to and once the main rust areas are repaired or protected then corrosion shouldnt ever be an issue .

Yep...tin worm is nothing like as bad as it used to be.

Not sure how well a 1970 Viva would hold up though...

I have a strong desire to do something not dissimilar with a mk4 escort 3 door estate. It was my first 'normal' car and I've always had a hankering for another one. But 41yr old me knows that the 60bhp the 1.3 had from the factory won't feel all that quick to me now, and certainly not like the rocket ship it seemed when I was 17.

I have an idea to put the 2.5T lump from the focus ST in one. Should develop around 330bhp with a map. Combine that with a 900-950kg kerb weight and current performance should align nicely with my rose tinted nostalgia! 

A 5 litre lump with 330bhp of Detroit V8 is what the baby Austin should have had to begin with....

Ford 302 Windsor, so either Canadian, or made in Cleveland 

Pointless pedantry aside, a great film and I absolutely love these sort of projects, thanks for sharing! I have to say, depending on when it was done, I think the builder applied the DVLA's rules rather liberally to retain the original numberplate and Austin designation on the V5. 

My bad.

I tend to think that any old lump V8 of pig iron is made in Detroit.

As a very small child I would occasionally  be given a lift home from school in a baby Austin. Can't remember if it was the earlier A30 or later A35, but it was finished in depression grey and had a huge indicator switch in the middle of the metal dash.


Also...it had Austin of England proudly displayed on the boot lid.

A 5 litre lump with 330bhp of Detroit V8 is what the baby Austin should have had to begin with....

Ford 302 Windsor, so either Canadian, or made in Cleveland 

Pointless pedantry aside, a great film and I absolutely love these sort of projects, thanks for sharing! I have to say, depending on when it was done, I think the builder applied the DVLA's rules rather liberally to retain the original numberplate and Austin designation on the V5. 

exactly and that is why you will never get any mot  suprises .
personally with my own cars (omega,cavs,carlton,viva) they are all used in rotation all year round including winter commuting and every spring they all get a thorough wash off underneath and any issues sorted as and when found .this way i never worry about reliability or mot time .
as mentioned omegas are no worse than any other cars to keep up to and once the main rust areas are repaired or protected then corrosion shouldnt ever be an issue .

Managed to get the old girl going again.

In the end I took a chance on a used Wallstar 12/14 from Ebay, of 1998 vintage.

Changed the nozzle for a new than cleaned the photocell with white spirit and she roared into life.

£84 for the burner, £9 for a new nozzle, and £7 for Royal Mail P&P from some God forsaken part of the UK.

tried that .the complete decks were the first thing i swapped !
its as if the coupling capacitors are faulty but swapping them unit to unit doesnt swap the fault !
its very frustrating !

A 5 litre lump with 330bhp of Detroit V8 is what the baby Austin should have had to begin with....

Who decided on the nancy boy 803 cc or 948cc lump.

The cassette motors generally have a sub board in them to regulate the speed, so check the motor (or swap it) and also check the mechanism for dry grease, tight spindles etc