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Mini (5) 7 Ruby (2) A40 (2) FX3 (2) Mini Cooper (2) America (1) Bantam (1) Healey (1)

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1939 Austin FX3

$44,495 $54,495 2,700 miles

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1963 Austin Mini

$17,250 $33,795 11,111 miles

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Frequently Asked Questions about Classic Austin

Herbert Austin founded the Austin Motor Company in 1905 after leaving the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company, and the marque carries his surname. He set up at Longbridge, near Birmingham, England, in a former printing works, and the first Austin car appeared there in 1906. The company went into receivership in 1921 and recovered after a financial restructuring.

The Austin Seven was a small, inexpensive car launched in 1922 and built until 1939, nicknamed the Baby Austin. It began with a 696 cc engine that was enlarged to 747 cc in 1923, and about 290,000 cars and vans were made. The Ruby saloon went on sale for 1935. In Germany, Dixi built the Seven under license from 1927, and the design became the BMW 3/15 in 1929.

Yes. The American Austin Car Company, founded in 1929, built a version of the Austin Seven under license in Butler, Pennsylvania, from 1930 through 1934, with bodies styled by Alexis de Sakhnoffsky. About 20,000 were made before the company went bankrupt. Dealer Roy Evans bought the assets and relaunched the business as American Bantam, which introduced restyled cars in 1937.

Austin became part of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1952, when it merged with Morris Motors, and part of British Leyland in 1968. Austin kept its separate identity as a marque inside BMC. The group was renamed British Motor Holdings in 1966 and merged with Leyland two years later. British Leyland in turn became Rover Group in 1986.

Yes. BMC launched the Mini on August 26, 1959, as two near-identical cars, the Austin Seven and the Morris Mini-Minor, and the Austin version was later renamed Austin Mini. Alec Issigonis designed it with an 848 cc engine mounted crosswise and front-wheel drive. The first Mini Cooper followed in 1961. Official imports to the United States ended in 1967, ahead of 1968 emissions and safety rules.

The Austin FX3 was a London taxi introduced in 1948 and replaced by the FX4 in 1958. Taxi dealer Mann & Overton commissioned it from Austin, and Carbodies of Coventry built the body on an Austin chassis. It had three doors, with an open luggage platform beside the driver instead of a front passenger seat, and it launched with a 2.2-liter gasoline engine.

The Austin America was a two-door version of BMC's 1100/1300 small sedan, built for the United States from 1968 with a 1275 cc engine and also sold in Canada and Switzerland. The Pininfarina-styled car rode on Hydrolastic fluid suspension interconnected front to rear. The same basic car had been exported to America earlier as the MG 1100. Austin America production was discontinued in September 1971.

Rover Group dropped the Austin badge from its cars in 1987 or 1988, depending on the source. The Maestro carried on under its model name alone and stayed in production until 1994. Nanjing Automobile of China acquired the Austin name with MG Rover's assets in July 2005, and SAIC Motor took over Nanjing's car business in a deal signed in December 2007.

The 18 Austin listings on Classic Cars Arena right now are priced from $5,800 to $44,495, with a median asking price of $28,950. These are the prices sellers are asking today, not sale prices, and the figures change as cars are listed and sold.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Classic Austin