Barrett's #259 - Solved - Austin A70 estate by Frank Grounds

[barrett]

Base car is easy, but who carried out the conversion?

[barrett]

Experts

[fyreline]

Looks to be one of the Austin A70 Hereford Shooting Brakes done by Frank Grounds in the early 1950's. I've seen photos of both a 1951 and a 1952 that are virtually identical.

[barrett]

That's correct, well done

[faksta]

One more picture. Or is it different? I see a little rear door on the puzzle picture, while here there's none, but shots are from different sides, so maybe that's the reason?

[fyreline]

I came across that photo as well during my searching/solving process, and I also noticed the missing rear door in the right side shot. I would hazard a guess that the cars were in fact built with two doors on one side and one on the other.  In any case, they made a nice change from the standard A70 Countryman. Does anyone know for sure?

[barrett]

I doubt any two cars were exactly identical. Some no doubt came with two doors, some with four and perhaps even some with three depending on what the customer wanted