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Originally Posted by Lancsbreaker
Don't knock the mighty 948cc A-series 
When I had to do the engine change in our A35 (as mentioned in post #1349 ) I was delighted to discover that the engine I'd sourced - which came from a defunct Minor convertible - was of course a 948cc - but the engine we removed was a measly little 803cc from an A30..... Not quite sure how as the A30 was apparently only made from 52-56, and our van was a 57..... presumably sometime in the intervening 10 years it had had a previous transplant 
It did feel perkier with the "new" engine |
Perhaps someone did a surreptitious swap whilst no-one was looking!
Many years ago when I lived in Norfolk, a local lad on his way home to Cromer in his A35 after a night out, ran out of fuel. He was only just outside the town so he pushed the car into the gateway of a field & walked home. He returned in the morning with some petrol but there was no life from the engine, nothing, so he opened the bonnet to check it over only to find the engine had gone!!