1936 AUSTIN NIPPY FOR SALE

VAR Members Cars for Sale or Wanted
Post Reply
Media-Moderator
Site Admin
Posts: 43
Joined: Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:26 pm
Contact:

1936 AUSTIN NIPPY FOR SALE

Post by Media-Moderator »

Ann Lloyd has written to us from Canada. She is seeking to sell her 1936 Austin Nippy (see a picture of Ann in it quite a while ago and another, more recent, photograph which confirms the original registration).

Ann writes:

“When I was 21 (which is a big deal in Wales: key of the door and all that stuff) my father presented me with this Austin Nippy saying “If I had money you would get an MG. As it is, here’s an Austin Nippy with a speedy engine and a drip feed sump”, or words to that effect. I was at University at the time and having it was a blast. I called her Heffalump from the Winnie the Pooh stories as just like Heffalump we seemed never to get caught.

We had high adventures. A flat on the motorway where a truck driver stopped to help me: he wouldn’t take money but wanted to be named a “Knight of the Road”, an initiative which a tabloid newspaper was running at the time. In London I beat another truck at a stop light so that at the next one he yelled at me “You think you’re so clever in that cat’s whisker of yours don’t you”. Another time in driving rain on Christmas Eve I got stopped by the police; the UK had just introduced driving and drinking laws. “Is this your car “ they demanded. With rain all over my face and the lights dimming because the windshield wiper was working, I responded “Who the hell else would want it” and they laughed and let me go.

Anyway life got in the way. I got a job writing for two women’s magazines in London so the car remained in my parents’ garage in Wales. From there I emigrated to Montreal, Canada and the car stayed in Wales. My parents died in 1994 and 1995 so I had the car stripped and rebuilt still with the same engine etc. Then when I sold the house I had her shipped in a container to Canada in 1999 where since then I have put on only around 100 kilometres. She rests in our barn on St Joseph’s Island in Ontario and now we have sold the farm so Heffalump, after 60 years with me, has to go. “

The car was first registered on 1 September 1936 and Ann has owned it for over 60 years. The engine number is M248671; the chassis number is 250H12; the rating is 7.8hp, and it has its original registration number.

If you are interested please ring Ann on 001-514-931-5710 or 001-705-946-9658 or email your queries to her on wpg.al.wes@gmail.com
Attachments
8A214C53-C2A2-4805-B94C-59D8FBFD9309.jpeg
8A214C53-C2A2-4805-B94C-59D8FBFD9309.jpeg (614.38 KiB) Viewed 6867 times
5F27A6BD-B469-4FF8-951D-0BD541870556.jpeg
5F27A6BD-B469-4FF8-951D-0BD541870556.jpeg (605.8 KiB) Viewed 6867 times
NotGumdrop
Posts: 5
Joined: Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:20 pm

Re: 1936 AUSTIN NIPPY FOR SALE

Post by NotGumdrop »

Does anyone know what happened in response to this. I mailed the owner when it first appeared in the magazine but no reply
DHutch
Posts: 53
Joined: Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:24 pm
Location: Wirral (North West, England)
Contact:

Re: 1936 AUSTIN NIPPY FOR SALE

Post by DHutch »

I have no information, but a lovely story and great looking car.

Daniel
Post Reply