My first car was an 1959 A40 Mk1 black roof mostly green body with occasional rusty red spots. Great engine used to get me from Midlands to Southampton no problem until on a trip back, giving a 19stone work colleague a lift home, went round a roundabout and a leaf spring gave way. Repositioned him and it got me home. Spent the weekend at my parents at a breakers yard, fitting the leaf spring, bleeding the brakes and then back to Southampton no problem. Those were the days eh?

My first car was a £26 Mk1 A40 Farina. It had been hand-painted in white, looked rough but got me through my test at the age of 18 in 1975. My next four cars were Mk2 A40 Farinas which left me with a lifelong affection for these wonderful vehicles. Great video and well done for joining the Committee, nice to see young people getting involved and becoming the replacements for us old codgers!

My dad bought a '64 Mk2 Countryman from our milkman in 1977 for £40 to teach me to drive. Absolutely loved it. The carpet was shot because the previous owner had an elderly dog, dad and I made new ones from a big floral pattern offcut, we had just had the hall stairs and landing done. HTC755B. Happy days..

took 6 driving lessons in an A40, the 6th lesson being the driving test. That was in 1960. I still have a soft spot for that car.

Great selection of cars for your trip. Speaking of breakfast :) During our big UK roadtrip last year, when we drove from London to Gaydon to Chipping Norton to Bath, Lyme Regis, Stonehenge back to London etc etc we first stopped in at a fellow's house in Southam to pick up a luggage rack for our Midget back home in NY. They guy (Graham) has a gorgeous red 77 Midget he removed the rubber bumpers, rounded the rear arches, and generally did an amazing job restoring/modding his car. But he didn't need his luggage rack, so we bought it, toted it around the rest of our trip, and shipped it home as luggage. After picking up the rack and ogling his Midget, and paying due respect to his craftsmanship, we stopped at the Long Itch Diner on the A423 just North of Northam and ran into a cars-and-coffee breakfast event! What luck. Looked just like what you enjoyed at the breakfast in this video. Graham also has a car on display in the museum! It was in the background of your video from inside the museum the other day, two tone green larger car from before the war IIRC. You are absolutely the future of your club, and the more younger folks involved the better. The more outreach you can do to the youths the better, the more peers you can convert to the cult of the old car the better. It brings more buddies into the mix, more opportunity, keeps the parts flowing, the cars on the road, all that. These old guys are falling away into history, and if they're not replaced, these cars will wind up like Model As and Ts, where you almost never see them at all despite being built in huge numbers, so keep up the good work on involvement in the clubs. We recruited an 18 year old into the MG Car Club of Western NY Centre this year, and we've enticed younger members to participate more simply by engaging more, chatting more, meeting up more often to do basic maintenance at each other's garages, taking drives in the countryside, meeting at breweries, wineries during the week, driving to lunch. This year, we're even driving our little British cars in a parade. Not sure your parade culture in that area, but here most small towns have a parade at least once a year to support the local fire brigade or some holiday or festival, it draws thousands of people and is a great way to get younger people interested.

How great! A must-join for me in near future. Owning the only a40 Countryman (mk2) in The Netherlands

My Dad had a 1960 mk1, ocean blue with black roof, 7834 RE. When he bought a new Triumph 1300 I had it as my first car. I put twin SU carbs on it so it went better than the old Zenith one but the biggest problem was having to weld in new inner and outer sills when the dreaded tin worm struck. Sold it to get a Triumph Spitfire.

Actually, I think MY A40 Farina was 1961! Went everywhere with my mate, and bought it off him - when it decided to call it a day, and fall apart! How lucky you've got a decent car, with BLUE inside, unlike today's cars!

Hi 👋 I'm viewing from New Zealand . I was talking to a guy who pulled into a supermarket carpark in a green 1959 Austin A40 Fsrina. It was in good condition and he had owned it for a number of years. I like them, i did in my childhood in the 1960s.

*Looks like an excellent gathering of A40s, very rarely seem to see any at the events we go to*

I had to scrap mine in 1974 cos you could see the road through the floor.

I learned to dive in one of these cars and I always remember the instructor showing me that the join in the rear widow rubber was exactly in the right position to tell me where the kerb was when I had to reverse around a corner. I think the A40 was credited with being the first hatch-back.

i didn't realise how few i of these cars where left on the road, you must live near to where i live in stonnall because i have seen you driving your car on the chester road, sounds nice with that sporty exhaust

Mevan ward has a autism a40 I seen in your volgs with the blue te shirt on he's the one who got a40 project it's more filler on it and primer on it and when you are in it you have to hold the doors closed because if you let go they will be open

Great cars.

I love these cars, despite loosing the end of my right little finger as a child when the passenger seat dropped down onto it whilst I was looking for a lost toy….

My dad had a A40 Farina from new registration LDT614D or was it LGT614D? He undersealed it from new and it rarely got wet. It was sold after 25 years with less than 30,000 on the clock.

Good luck, with your club role etc, Bob

How many A40s still exist in Britain today, now between 56 and 65 years old? Is it the same engine as the Morris Minor whose exhaust makes the trombone sound?