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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

Morning all,

Although I doubt that dynamically driving one of these would be particularly electrifying, I like the look of these dependable old girls and would happily pootle about in one. Has anyone here owned a Phase 1 or 1a (or a Phase 2 for that matter)?

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RJ
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

I have to disagree with you Rick on the electrifying dynamics!

I think it's likely to be all over the place if driven with verve.

Peter Laughing

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BigJohn · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire

I had a Phase 2, it handled like two drunken heifers riding a tandem with flat tyres, but it was an imposing brute. On crossplies it would tram line and follow any fault in the road, a nightmare if the utility companies had been in the area. On radials you needed a can of spinach on board to be able to park it. Great cars, built like tanks.

Ronniej · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 7:34 pm Post subject:

I had a Phase 2 back in the mid '60s. My car prior to that was a Triumph Renown which was virtually identical mechanically.
I rather liked it and I thought the distinct boot was far better looking than the beetle-back.
Very dependable but very heavy steering.
The engine was used in Fergie tractors and the Triumph Roadsters up to the TR4

Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1750 Location: Derbyshire

My dad, a civilian, had a RAF one as a staff car in the early/mid 1950s when he was the Station Engineer (Electrical) at RAF Strubby in Lincolnshire. It was the first car I 'drove' - or rather steered - sitting on his lap.

I remember one day during a school holiday he needed something from central stores which were in one of the airship hangars at Cardington and I was allowed to go as a treat with his driver, a round trip of 200 miles. It must have been during the winter as I was sat on a cushion so I could see through the windscreeen, wrapped in a blanket and given a hot water bottle by my mum!
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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1954 Location: East Yorkshire

Don't forget, the engine was also offered by Morgan.....

Ray the rocker · Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 187 Location: south wales

hi all,my dad purchased one in mid fifties after driving a 1947 Austin 8 saloon .drove like a mini tank and he showed me how to negotiate corners with it in top gear and no changing down!! The engine torque was amazing.The same engine setup was put in the humber hawk so he bought one of them as well.That car drove like a Sherman tank so he cooled off a little and went for a Vauxhall cresta.Great days of the post war""car wars"era and glad I was a part of it....cheers--ray the rocker.

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

The Humber Hawk had quite a reasonable Rootes 4 cylinder engine that was quite successful when also used in the Sunbeam Talbots for the Monte Carlo Rally. I can't think why you'd want to put a Standard/Triumph 2 litre in a Hawk.

Peter
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