Original owner of 1967 Austin 1100 Tartan Red 4 speed automatic purchased new from a British Motor Corporation (BMC) Dealership located in Tampa, Florida.
Dirven by my mother 16 miles round trip daily to her work place up until her retirement in 1991 and afterwards driven solely for errands up until 2011.
All service & maintenance including 8 quart oil changes every 1500 miles were regularly performed by me for the vehicle’s entire lifetime.
Approximately 1000 miles ago new OEM front disc rotors, calipers& disc pads were installed along with new OEM CV joints and inner/outer wheel bearings including rear brake wheel cylinders, shoes and new master cylinder & 5 brake hoses.
In 1979 I upgraded the power plant to increase the horse power via a 1275cc engine & transmission. The 1275cc steel sleeved piston bore engine is for a manual transmission thus, a manual transmission can be easily fitted if one desires. It should be noted the 1275cc engines designed for an automatic transmission cannot be fitted or adapted to a manual transmission due to the internal oiling routes.
The body is rust free and has been garaged since 1983.
Worked with a Central Florida BMC dealership on a part time/on-call basis during the years when Austin Americas were sold from 1968 thru 1971 to perform automatic transmission troubleshooting and repair work.
Available spare parts are as follows:
1100/1300 Original BMC Factory Workshop Manual
Original BMC Factory Hydrolastic fluid Fill and Evacuate Machine
Hydrolastic Displacer Units (2 spares)
Torque Converter
Automatic Transmission Rebuild kit
Automatic Transmission cases with hard parts
1275cc Engine block, pistons, crankshaft, rods
1275cc Engine head
Centrifugal Advance Distributor
Front and rear suspension parts
New Factory OEM hood in factory primer
Rear Window, door & side glass
Steering column
Steering rack & pinion
Oil Filters
Engine Starters (Quantity 2)
Starter Bendix (several)
Exhaust Muffler
Brake parts
Axles& Universal Joints
Voltage Regulator
Fuel Tank Sender Units
Spare wheels (quantity 2)
Hub Caps (quantity 5)
Rear bottom seat
Many additional miscellaneous parts
History article excerpt below from https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/bmc/1100-1300/usa-and-canada/
BMC had also decided to reserve the MG marque in America for use on sports cars, but the US dealers, still keen to steal sales from the Beetle, started lobbying for a replacement for the Sports Sedan. This led to BMC shipping a small quantity of Austin 1100s to the US during late 1967, while they readied a new version of the car aimed specifically at this market.
USA: Austin 1100
Launched in the summer of 1967 as a stop-gap model as the MG Sports Sedan was phased out, the US-spec Austin 1100 differed from its UK counterpart in several respects. From the front, it can clearly be seen that it lacked the usual Mk1 overriders and grille-mounted‘Austin’ badge, while the clear-lensed indicators also mark it out.
Unlike the MG, this car was available only in two-door form (as was its main rival, the Volkswagen Beetle),reflecting its main role as a second or third car in the US market. Colour availability was limited to White, Tartan Red and Connaught Green.
However, perhaps the most interesting aspect of the car was the fact that it used the central instrument pod which would not make its debut on home-market cars until the introduction of the MkII 1100 a few months later. This, combined with the export-only two-door MkI body shell, makes this model something of a hybrid, looking rather curious to British eyes.
It is not currently known how many of these models were built, or when production was halted, but it seems that it was partly devised as a means of using up excess two-door MkI body shells, so production is likely to have continued alongside that of the MkII cars for a time. It is also thought that the model remained on sale in the US until the introduction of the Austin America the following year.