Austin A110 Westminster

Austin A110 Westminster MKII

Super de Luxe Automatic

Rare Austin A110 Westminster from the sixties.

Saved from the scrapyard in the last moment...

With a 3-liters 6 cylinder C-series engine - just like the Austin Healey 3000 and Wolseley 6/110.

Came to Samsø 1st. june 2008.

There are no papers or history on the car, but it is from 1964-66. The Westminster was located in a scrapyard in Gettrup, Hobro and the manager phoned me and asked if the museum was interested in the car, otherwise it would be scrapped and sold for the price of the metal. He pickes it up some years ago and have stored it inside until a half year ago - since then it's been standing outside in the open. The car was sold to a dane in Sweden, but he had a car accident on his way to DK and he never got around to pick it up.

The successor to Austin A70 Hereford was Austin A90 Westminster in 1954, after that, a new designed car appeared as the Austin A95/Austin A105 Westminster in 1956-1959 and then again the Austin A99 Westminster in 1959-1961. Finally the Austin A110 Westminster MKI arrived in 1961 to be succeded by the Austin A110 Westminster MKII in 1964 - the difference between the MKI'eren was that it got 13" tires and a very nice wooden dashboard. Wolseley produced a 6/110 version with the same tail, but different front grille, and there was also a Vanden Plas Princess Mark II version with the C-Series engine. The chassis was used on the Vanden Plas Princess 4 Litre R model, which was produced with a Rolls Royce engine and the same chassis shaped partly a prototype at the Bentley-factory.

The Westminster-series ended in 1968 and the Austin 3-Liter took over as its successor.

Austin of England data:

Austin A110 Westminster MKII 1964-1968: 26.105 pcs.

Engine: 2912 ccm - 120 HK (89 kW) - Topspeed 164 km/t

0-100 km/t: 13.3 sec - 6.7 km/liter

Weight - 3470 lb

3-liter engine - 6 cylinders - C-series engine

120 HK with dishbrakes and automatic gearbox