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[mercrocker]

Flash guide -

From the front, A30s had a smaller, shiny grille - A35s larger with chrome surround and body-colour grille.
From the rear, A30s had the small back window, A35 were full-width.

Engines were slightly larger capacity in the later cars too (948cc vs. 803). There were 1098cc and 848cc vans too but that's all under the skin!

[AMCrebel]

A30s had trafficators - so no indicator lamps to the front or rear, however quite a few got upgraded later to the A35 spec.

I remember my Dad had to fiddle with the trafficators often to get them working. They were subject to water ingress and often jammed - and the weedy festoon bulbs weren't great when they worked and were often affected but the whole thing filling up with water and corroding the contacts. On the other hand, the standard of maintenance may not have been 100% - my Dad never pretended to be much good with mechanical stuff.

[treehugger]

That could be a whole other thread, if anybody can be arsed. Whats the diff between x and y?
Humbers, Super Snipe, Hawk, Imperial. I havent a clue.

[cros]

The big difference between an A35 and an A 30 is that the earlier car is hardly worth bothering with such is the improvement with the bigger engine. My Mrs ran one as daily drive to work transport for 6 years until we flogged to the the steam roller man from the beige. I put in an 1100 engine with a 1275 head, the cheapskate tuning mod which entails dremelling out at the top of the bores as the valves are too big. The beauty is you can do that sort of stuff and the things keep working. One other thing, I'd avoid the stupid 4 door- people don't exactly clamour to get in the back.

[mercrocker]

That could be a whole other thread, if anybody can be arsed. Whats the diff between x and y?
Humbers, Super Snipe, Hawk, Imperial. I havent a clue.

If you are talking Humbers as in the Series cars such as Squire Fried Onions drives it gets a bit confusing as there are five Series of Super Snipe and four of Hawk!

Basically, the Hawks were four cylinders, all single headlamps and updated for their penultimate series with higher roofline and additional side window.
Super Snipes had twin headlamps from their Series III onwards (the first British car to feature them) and 6 cylinder engines. Again, penultimate Series had the higher roofline.
The Imperial only appeared in Series form at Super Snipe V level and was essentially a slightly more lavish Super Snipe with an Everflex vinyl roof.

Hawks, Super Snipes and Imperials had existed in earlier forms too in a similar level of "trim" hierarchy.

[treehugger]

Sorry forgot there were earlier sit up and beg humbers, hardly ever seen one.

[fried onions]

A team including Stirling Moss drove a Mk. IV Super Snipe through 15 countries in 90 hours in challenging winter conditions. These had the famous Blue Riband OHV 4 litre engines which could do 9 to 90+ in top gear. They were the last of the 'battleship' cars with separate chassis and the Series I debuted a few years later. In 1957 there were no Snipes being produced.






Lovely cars very few left in Britain.

[mercrocker]

When I first got married and had a place of our own (over 30 years ago as my daughter wasn't born) the fella over the road had a gardening business. He used to tow his mower trailer with a late Mark Super Snipe. It was that duck egg blue colour but the paint was flat as buggery. Town and Country on the back, bloody fantastic it was.

[panhard65]

Here is one I have never seen before. I expect it will be way out of my price range but what a rare car.
https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1802234951.htm/

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[AMCrebel]

A team including Stirling Moss drove a Mk. IV Super Snipe through 15 countries in 90 hours in challenging winter conditions.

Hang on, you mean he travelled through Europe in a car before the EU even existed? How is that possible?