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I HAVE always thought that the early style Farina models had the best "Italianate look". That is to say that the way those marvellous rear wings rear up so proudly as if pointing towards the sky cannot fail to catch the eye. For me - and I have stated this several times over the years - the "rounded off" arches that succeeded the original in 1961 never quite did it. Still, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
These high fin examples, whether it be in the guise of Wolseley, Morris, Austin, MG or Riley, are extremely scarce these days. So here is an opportunity for someone to lavish their love on a Wolseley 15/ 60, complete with traditional wood and leather interior. She looks stunning in two-tone green with contrasting caramel coloured leather. The seats are undamaged and the same can be said about the dash and its clocks.
She drives beautifully and, until you become used to this old girl, you will probably tend to think that you have stalled at junctions so quiet is this 1500cc engine.
She is a 1960 model, and yet pure 50s in her appearance. It's a car that immediately transports me back to my car-mad childhood of the 1950s when school holidays seemed to be spent sneaking into any house's driveway where any vehicle was to be found. This was BMC badge engineering at its best - or its worst perhaps depending on your social and political standpoints - and the Wolseley was the family saloon that oozed middle class. Crombie coat-clad drivers, string backed driving gloves and probably a Rotary Club badge on the windscreen.
As the BMC slogan used to proclaim: Buy wisely, buy Wolseley." Well yes, fair enough. But this car was a social statement and most modestly paid motorists could not afford such a luxurious machine.
So, there we have it. She appears to be as solid in all the right places as she is so, so pretty outside and in. A lovely place to be. Now you could be the next owner! Lastly, on a point of information, she is a 1960 model and the issue of the "A plate" will have come about in the 1970s when cars which fell off Swansea's radar as they were probably tucked away somewhere were brought back into the new DVLA system and given an A plate. This system pre-dated the current method of giving out age-related numbers.
She is not a new car, nor is she a three-year-old used car. She is a piece of antique motoring history and, as such will have quirks and maybe even the odd fault. Anyway, she is what she is. These old gems - in this case almost 60-years-old are sold as seen. Should you buy without viewing, then she is sold on the basis of the advertisement you have read the photos, or extra photos, you have seen as well with the assistance of any answers to questions you have received from me. Treat these classics with the respect they deserve and make sure they have love, time and effort lavished on them. Even the very best need permanent on going care. Practically all will have undergone a degree of restoration work or improvement at some stage. If it's a three-year-old car dating from the 1960s that you are after, then you are out of luck. Short of acquiring a Tardis that is.
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