A40 Farina: the next big thing?

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Remember yesterday’s Powerful Peanut? Well, it was a car that started a craze in the early 2000s. A35s became the stars of the Goodwood Revival and they have sky rocketed since. And we don’t think we need to tell you something similar happened to the good old Mini and its Cooper ‘S’ siblings. In a few years time these cars have become so valuable that the original fanbase now hardly can afford them. You can ask yourselves: what’s the next thing to make a move? We think it may well be the sweet Austin A40 Farina. A simple but delicate design by a much-respected designer using the good old A-series mechanicals. They were raced and rallied, too and are fully Goodwood eligible. Agree? Well, over to our next valuable tip-off then.

Auctioneer Richard Edmonds found a stash of them in what has to be a barn, recently. And they bring all of them to the block in Allington, county Wiltshire, on the 17th of this month. These are nine A40 Farinas from a one-man’s collection with all of them will be needing lots of work. Here is the catalogue, but we’ve picked out the A40s for you to simplify choosing. Here’s number 1, number 2, number 3, number 4, number 5, number 6, number 7, number 8 and number 9. That’s a lot of A40s to choose from! Price estimates range from 100 to 500 pounds. Still cheap!

(Words Jeroen Booij, picture British Motor Heritage)

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