Description
I am selling my 1949 typhoon that has been restored to a high standard, new seats , new roof , I am not in a position to complete the project due to I’ll health.
All that needs doing is to finish fitting the dash and a very small amount of cosmetic jobs .
Car drives and starts lovely.
a two-door, four-seat fixed-head coupé. It was made from 1946 to 1949 and continued the company’s theme of naming cars after Hawker Siddeley World War II aircraft. The chassis has independent front suspension using longitudinal torsion bars and a live rear axle with leaf springs. A Girling hydro-mechanical braking system is fitted, with the front drums hydraulically operated while those at the rear using rod and cable. This Typhoon is fitted with a 70 bhp 1991 cc, six-cylinder, overhead-valve engine carried over from the pre-war 16 hp model with hydraulic tappets and pre-selector gearbox. This engine is one of the smoothest I’ve encountered – it is barely perceptible whilst ticking over! The four-seat, two-door body is constructed of steel and aluminium panels fitted over a wood-and-aluminium frame with a fabric roof. The doors are rear hinged, an arrangement that got the name of suicide doors. At launch, the car cost £1214 on the UK market; dearer than both the drop head version – the Hurricane and the saloon version – the Lancaster.
