Fuzz drives....1958 Standard 8 Saloon offered at our 6th July Classics Auction

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[mradderz]

Thank you for this, as a young owner of one (21). It's nice to hear people singing it's praises as most of my generation doesn't understand why you would want something a bit slower and more methodical. I think they are beautiful cars and although I am still working to make mine roadworthy, watching stuff like this just gives me more and more motivation to get it done 👍

[johnmontgomery]

Once again lovely gearchagnges complete with the 2 sec pauses in between. 👍🏻

[johnbristow]

My dad had a Standard 10 and my uncle had a Standard Pennant. Lovely comfortable cars.

[gerardsebastian]

Thank you for posting this beautiful clip of a cute little car!

[richardw]

Mum and dad's Vanguard was the same. Pottering along at 50mph, west of Sydney, up into the Blue Mountains then back home through Kurrajong, backfiring down the hill. Loved the 60s.

[gerrycollins]

My Dad owned a Standard 8 (MVB 830) in the 50s, during my first 5 years. I just loved the indicator arrows which flipped up and down (occasionally they didn't) and we had to start it several times with the crank handle.

[williamnethercott]

Nice commentary, Fuzz. When I was growing up in the sixties and early seventies, my dad used to tell me that Standard cars were basic, bread and butter cars with a bit of extra quality. Judging by examples I've seen (they were really common around where I grew up), if they're anything like the Triumph Herald 1200 I inherited from him, he was exactly right.

[timhancock]

My mum had one in 1957. Then her best friend wrote it off in 1958 and put her mother in hospital. The replacement was one of the very first Triumph Heralds in 1959 which I remember very well. Dark Blue Reg PVH 788 (West Riding of Yorks)

[austingreenough]

My sister had one similar to this model.
Her boot was sealed shut and only accessible from inside the car.
This was early in the 60s.
Lovely little car.
My boss also had the same model car as my sister, also with the same situation with the boot.
Both cars I think were from the same period and similar in colour.

[MrMBGeezer]

Dad bought us one of these when I was 13, for £25. I still have a piece of it under a knuckle(over 55 years later) from when I was repairing a rust hole in the driver’s side front and my hand slipped! It was baby blue originally but my brother and I changed the colour to fern green with aptly named “Brushing Belco”. We used a brush and the paint flowed out amazingly well! Great little car. We put 45 miles on it on our short driveway.

[Tom-okle]

My first car ! same colour as well. :-)

[edwardkennedy]

My dad had one with the standrive transmission, two pedal and the clutch was operated by a button on top of the gear lever

[PiDsPagePrototypes]

6:55 - Bump and the wheels move but the body stays composed.
Right-oh, looks like we don't mess with the chassis on the one we just got.

[lesklower]

I do like the gear stick how l ong it is these cars of the 1950s and 1960s you had to realy drive them and they ate so engaging to drive

[mmzoom]

Back in 1973 I bought a 1957 Standard 8 that was a one-previous-owner, for £25. Unlike the Standard 8 in this video, there was no keyhole for the ignition but a little black knob on the dash next to the choke knob that needed to be turned a quarter clockwise before pulling the starter knob. Additionally, the keyhole to the driver's door lock was so worn, I could use our house Yale front door key in it to lock and unlock the door. The boot of my Standard 8 could open but the lock was busted, so when I went out anywhere I used to tie a rope from inside the boot lid around the metal bar on the back seats, to stop anyone trying to thieve anything out of the boot. Fortunately the back seats folded down which enabled me to climb into the boot when securing the rope. My Standard had a crash gearbox, not synchro like it appears in the video, which meant I had plenty of practice with double de-clutching when changing up and down the gears. It was apple green when I bought it but I very quickly changed the colour to black, which I think looked smarter. The engine had a knack of cutting out in the most awkward places and I had to wait 10 or 15 minutes before it would start again. I had my little Standard 8 for just over a year, during which time it sailed through an MOT and I then sold it to a lady down the road to where I used to live for £25. Brilliant car, though, for all its faults.

[gizzymoee]

I've hit 75 in my Standard 10 according to GPS. Or off the speedo according to the car. Additional to this I blew the engine up hammering it to wales and back :D but despite the disintegration of one piston it still drive home lol.

Also, it's my daily you rarely find a situation where you can't keep up with modern traffic, especially with the extremely low first gear. So low I've towed a 2.5 jeep with mine lol

[skellertons]

Mr Mathewson of "Bangers and Cash", said that these would have been big sellers, but Ford, Austin, Morris, Vauxhall had more dealerships than Standard. What a nice motor though, and the 'synchro on the gears looks like it is doing the job. I see the drivers of modern cars behind you getting a bit impatient, that's their problem, you are doing the job properly.

[paulbennell]

Lovely wee thing! Bowls along nicely at 40mph, that's what it was made for. If you don't need to do motorways and you're looking for a classic town car that could still serve as a daily driver, you could do a lot worse than one of these.