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25/02/2025 6:45 pm
From my growing Lansdowne Series group of models, I added this little gem about 2yrs ago. I find the style of these sedans to be most intriguing.
1961 Austin A110 Westminster Saloon, LDM 006c. In Persian Blue
John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA
26/02/2025 5:47 am
It looks great and is in a really nice color. The fins are quite interesting here.
26/02/2025 6:25 am
Cool little Austin. I'm with Mike on the color - I like it.
26/02/2025 9:29 am
This one was powered by the same motor as the Austin Healey 3000 sports car, I think. Nicel!
26/02/2025 11:19 am
Well actually, by British standards the A110 Westminster was a "big Austin"!Cool little Austin. I'm with Mike on the color - I like it.
The styling was based on the smaller 1959 A55 Cambridge styled by Farina, which had more prominent fins. A nice crisp piece of styling, although some thought the back end made it look "overbodied".
As happened in the US, the big fins were a fairly short-lived phenomenon and in 1961 the A60 Cambridge appeared with the fins cropped down, more like the bigger Westminster.
Personally I preferred the look of these smaller cars to the Westminster, whose styling always seemed a little heavy by comparison - although, if I'm honest, not nearly as heavy as the Lansdowne makes it look. It really wasn't as short and podgy as that.
Looks more like an old Moskvich. (Sorry. I have some very nice Lansdowne models but this isn't one of their best.)
p.s. (30 minutes later). Maybe I was being a little unfair. I just dug out my own specimen of the Lansdowne A110 and it isn't quite as dumpy as the pic above suggests.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
26/02/2025 12:50 pm
Lansdowne made some really great looking models of British cars in various body styles from the 1930s thru '70s.