Can you remember that a few years ago we traced in a vague industrial estate in the Frisian town of Franeker a Austin A40 Farina Countryman Mk2 that is in a terrible state of decomposition? The little thing still had left wheel too!
Under the heading 'Verkeerd Afgelopen'this BMC product shone in' your ' Auto Motor Klassiek. Well, it's final Verkeerd Afgelopen with this Austin. The grainy sheet metal perhaps already functions as a refrigerator door, washing machine or perhaps the boot lid of a Toyota Prius? Such an A40 can rust terribly, very horribly. Restoration is a work of monks, because original sheet metal is difficult or not available. Do you have such a car? Be careful with it, because there are only a few left and there are fewer and fewer. How many Austin A40 Farina's are actually in the Netherlands? Please send your response - preferably with a photo - to the editors.