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Wolseley 6/90 Revival Ep.1 - , "Barnfind", Two Rusty Cars, As Discovered in Yard

Two rusty and derelict Wolseley 6/90 cars as discovered after many years of storage. One is a truly horrible wreck that is falling to pieces. The other is generally solid and has had some good repair work carried out in the past, but has clearly now been standing for many years. Both are Series 3 cars with the larger rear window, wooden dash and right-hand floor change gearbox with overdrive and date from 1958-1959, just before the big Gerald Palmer designed cars were replaced by the Farina designed 6/99. Relatively rare when new, with under 12,000 6/90s made in total between 1954 and 1959, now only around 25 examples survive in Britain with under 100 cars worldwide - mostly in Australia and New Zealand but including one car in Sri Lanka, Canada and the USA respectively. These were fast cars, capable of 100mph and sharing mechanicals with the 2.6 litre Austin Healy 100/6. Although marketed as soldly respectable, middle-class executive transport, more than half the cars made were used as Police Cars. This more exciting and hard-edged identity was immortalised by appearance in countless British films during the '50s, with a ratio of movie appearances to numbers produced that possibly exceeds any other car - and mostly in Noir-esque titles with plenty of tyre screeching on fast corners, most famously in "Hell is a City" . Only one genuine Police 6/90 is known to survive although there are several replica Police Cars (which is the intention for this car). The 6/90 shares similar styling to the much smaller 4/44 & 15/50 models, which survive in reasonable numbers and shared bodywork with the MG Magnette. The 6/90 shares basically the same bodyshell as the Riley Pathfinder (which is now also extremely rare), although mechanically little was shared. Of these two cars, one should be relatively straightforward to re-commission after some essential repairs with ongoing rolling conservation. But the other car - although rich in valuable parts - may well prove to be beyond any realistic prospect of restoration. Follow the progress of these two cars in further episodes to be uploaded on this Chanel by subscribing. If you are seriously interested in 6/90s visit The Wolseley Forum at http://www.wolseleyforum.com/ , where you can speak to owners, find out where to see examples and see when cars are sold. Contact me on the Forum by my username Edgar Lustgarten. To see 6/90s in action visit Internet Movie Car Database - http://www.imcdb.org/ , and search model "Wolseley 6/90" for several pages of films with fantastic titles such as "Two Way Stretch", "The Man in the Back Seat" or "The Village of The Damned".