Buster Keaton and his Austin Coupe, 1930

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/107

1932

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/28

it was over the moment it began, the kid in the blue car was in about 7th position on the grid, and was off to the fast start, instantly took 1st, and held it to the finish line

very cool to bring an old taxi, and suitcases to sell the idea!

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3677483492556322&set=pcb.2055847334824357

a good looking little car, 1949 Austin Atlantic

 

https://www.mecum.com/lots/1151431/1949-austin-atlantic-convertible/?aa_id=704024-0

I already forgot the year, I think it was 54, but I was surprised to see this nicely restored Austin at the Steve McQueen car show

 

in 1981, the Muppets' Cab was in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. 1959 Austin A35

https://macysthanksgiving.fandom.com/wiki/The_Muppets

https://breezewiki.com/muppet/wiki/Macy%27s_Thanksgiving_Day_Parade

http://platypuscomix.com/darkvault/1981parade.html

https://www.imcdb.org/v251368.html

1963 Austin Champ. 1/4 ton 4 x 4 with a Rolls Royce designed engine (I've never heard of or seen one until now)

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3188074151498991/?ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Champ

in the movie RRR (incredible dance scene by the way) they had a great little green car, 1931 Austin 7

great motorcycle, a BSA M20

 

and this scene had an incredible motorcycle repair alley

https://stories.parkplus.io/rrr-movie-cars-and-bikes/

I posted about Rowland Emett a couple years ago.... I thought I'd done a thorough job, but now I learn he painted on his nephew's Austin

Frederick Rowland Emett OBE was one of the few wonderful quirky eccentric goofy geniuses that make this hobby a genuine pleasure. 

He was a cartoonist, illustrator and inventor, who earned international fame and a decent living from creating elegantly outlandish machines which served no useful purpose other than make people laugh.

He was a master of British eccentricity and Emett’s central creation was the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek railway set in the Battersea Gardens in London for the 1951 Festival of Britain.  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/01/artist-and-unusual-machine-maker.html

He was responsible for creating the eight elaborate inventions featured in the 1968 film ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’

Way back in 1957,  his nephew,  17-year-old John Sellick became the owner of this car for £17 and 10 shillings, so he could learn to drive. 

 The bodywork at the time was the normal boring factory dual grey scheme, so John decided to brighten it up and hand painted it in a bright yellow. His uncle decided to paint one of his whimsical cartoons on the rear panel depicting a fun interpretation of an early chain driven car. This painting appears to be the only example on a vehicle by Emett.

In 2014, the biggest ever exhibition of Emett’s work was organized by The Rowland Emett Society in partnership with the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Emett’s daughter Claire

The yellow Austin Seven was reunited with John Sellick, 57 years after he first owned it.

https://sevenrk.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/artist-roland-emett-and-the-rk/ 

I often ponder, what was the owner thinking about, the day they parked a car and walked away from it that last time. Did they intend to return, or were they abandoning a car they didn't think they could sell?

 location unknown, commentors at the source of this photo say it's an Austin A40 Somerset

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2022/02/whats-brand.html

1954 Austin Somerset gasser "Dragnasty" pulls a 9.50 in the 1/4 mile

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/austin-somerset-gasser-build-dragnasty.859106/page-53

the 1920s Austin was really well built, engineered and designed, and was selling so well, that it was licensed/franchised and built and sold at BMW Nixi, Rosengart, and American Austin. Even Nissan copied it

in 1927 BWM introduced something new: the Dixi DA-1 3/15, a license-built copy of the Austin Seven.

Hard to imagine now, but the cute, fuddy-duddy little Austin Seven was, in fact, a revolution: small, cheap, yet well-built. It was England’s answer to the Ford Model T and it put the country to motoring with 375,000 built. Companies in France and Australia built it under license. In America, the aptly-named American Austin Car Company sold ’em with fun, cutesy big-car restyling, shrunken Stutzes and Marmons that looked truly cartoonish. Not only was the Dixi BMW’s first car but also Datsun’s, half a world away (though they may or may not have consulted with Austin before they started building it. The debate continues). By the 1950s, however, both companies had sorted it out.

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2018/03/07/in-the-beginning-bmw-made-the-dixi

1934 American Austin with a portable distributor tuner

http://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/zoom/29326
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/collection/home/page/402/id/automobile-reference

Antarctic Expedition Austin... 1st I've ever heard of that!

1930
 Bantam Austin Returns with Wilkins From the Antarctic

This "seagoing" Bantam car, which is shown parked under the wing of a plane on Deception Island, was one of the most popular members of the Wilkins Antarctic Expedition. For more than six months it withstood the punishment of Polar weather and rough driving over untracked Antarctic wastes and emerged full of "pep" and as good as ever.

 It served faithfully as an unfailing mount to the intrepid explorers who probed the mysteries of the Antarctic, and was said by Sir Hubert to be indispensible. Equipped with chains and double tires, it made its own roads and laughed at the temperature and the roughness of the going.

The rugged little explorer is mounted on the same chassis and powered by the same motor that will be featured in the new Bantam Austin cars to be manufactured in the United States by the American Austin Car Company of Detroit.

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/29311

Austin A-40 during its 'Round the World in Thirty Days' challenge in June 1951.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/69559277@N04/23737094938/

Goodwood Revival 2017

http://st.automobilemag.com/uploads/sites/11/2017/09/Goodwood-Revival-69.jpg

The J40 was born out of the car manufacturer Austin’s desire to do something in the community. It’s an idea that is commonplace these days for big businesses, but in July of 1949 it was pretty groundbreaking stuff from a marketing and PR perspective.

The factory set up to build these cars was based in a mining community in Wales, built to give jobs to the men that had become disabled through accidents.

The cars were put together from scraps of materials left over from construction of other Austin vehicles, and they were more or less being manufactured in exactly the same way as their bigger roadworthy brothers.

Read more about the pedal car cup race, and the trophy, at https://petrolicious.com/articles/the-settrington-cup-is-a-unique-pedal-powered-take-on-vintage-racing

https://petrolicious.com/articles/gallery-my-favorite-shots-of-goodwoods-rain-slicked-revival-in-motion

Herbert Austin's original Austin Seven, including its engine, was designed by eighteen-year-old Stanley Edge.

http://austinbantamclub.com/questions_answers.html

The American Austin / Bantam was given new streamlined designs from Alexis deSahknoffsky, and the bodies were contracted to Hayes or Murray

the 1940 Hollywood was designed by Alex Tremulis

1950 Austin A90 Atlantic Convertible

Last week someone really loved the kids in the tiny Austin cars at Goodwood, and here is the link to the story about them and a gallery from Goodwood

http://johnstraub.blogspot.com/2013/11/being-kid.html#more

1950 Austin A 90 Atlantic