A Club member, Mirco Mondfredini from Trento in Italy, who runs the Registro Innocenti, sends us this very stylish Christmas Greetings:

The members of the A40 Farina Club Ltd wish you all a very
Merry Christmas and a Happy & Healthy New Year !

Our Club was founded in late 1979 - 12 years after the end of Mk 2 production - by Cynthia Hiller , a private motorist living in Surrey. The newly-launched Practical Classics gave the Club a mention and from then on things took off. From those early beginnings with several dozen members, the numbers...

No; in his article, Tony tells us that the blue Mk2 is his 'other' car.

“ ’EVENING ALL” John Brooks (m/n 712) spotted this press-cutting in The Gloucestershire Echo dated Weds, 23rd January, 1991 (published by the Cheltenham Newspaper Co. Ltd. to whom we gave acknowledgment when reproducing it in FN 45, p. 19 in June 1991). The Club ’phoned the garage and spoke to Don B...

Australian Club member Tony Kirwan sent FN this article: Greetings everyone, did you know that Australia had a Camping version of the Austin A40 Farina where all the seats reclined to form a bed? There is a brochure showing this currently on Ebay. All the Mk 1 Countrymans I have seen have wind up wi...

Wonderful. Around here it's the big 4x4s who ignore common courtesy and can't be bothered to indicate.

Richard Dredge is a professional motoring journalist and photographer, and in 2014 an article was being run on suspension set-ups similar to that used on the A40. He contacted me to ask whether I could arrange with Gary to have Gab lofted so he could take some photos. At that time Gary hadn't yet in...

Thanks Stoney. I suppose it's okay to snaffle a couple of pix for FN160?

This article appeared in Farina News 99, December 2004... " SMILE PLEASE . . . Strange how things come about, really: one day I'm bimbling around as per usual, minding my own business, and the next I'm mixing it with high glamour modelling for a glossy monthly gentlemens' mag. Ah, but tragically, n...