Battling Correspondents and their Wolseley 24/80s
Hobart-based correspondent GlamRock recently brought us a Wolseley 24/80 (please see https://uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com/2022/12/from-glamrock-wolseley-sedan.html).
Then the CCC reminded me that he, too, had submitted this Wolseley, also pointing out that I'd failed to publish it.
It's also a 24/80, powered by the six cylinder Blue Streak engine developed in, and for, Australia, based on the BMC B-Series lump.
If you want to learn more about the 24/80 - that's 24(00) cc / 80 BHP, by the way - I recommend this HubNut video: https://youtu.be/z_q6QdvVXtw.
Adding to the interest - for me, anyway - is that HubNut filmed his feature car in Burnie, Tasmania, during a series he created called Aussie Oddballs, in which he showcases British Leyland products developed in, and modified for, Australian conditions.
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(uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.)
Photos by the CCC.
It’s not hard to understand the demise of the British car when you look at the engineering. Just 8 years later, a basic Mitsubishi Galant was producing about the same power with an engine that was two thirds of the capacity and lighter.
ReplyDeleteThere’s also FIAT’s even smaller (1290cc) 128 engine producing the same or more power from 1971 onwards.
DeleteVery, very true. I do like British cars but, let’s face, they were as stodgy as!
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