1965 Riley 4/72

That didn’t possibly come from Staplehurst did it? Couple of years back I helped a friend collect a load of Wolseley spares from an old gent,and he had a very similar one parked in his barn. Was having a mass sell up,but it wasn’t for sale at the time 😊

Always held a soft spot for A55 / A60's - the family business taxi fleet was based upon several models of the range for many years - I'd readily find a home if one crossed my path (especially one of the lesser models like this) - no doubt bmcnut will be along take an interest in this too

Plans just tidy interior, fit some rostyles
The doors have been bodged with filler and bottom half looks hand sprayed so I will sort that out apart from that a very solid car

Good solid car just needs work as expected currently looking for a wolseley 1660 as well

Well the strip down starts next week wish me luck 

Current plans two tone grey

Mgb engine and overdrive box

Red leather interior with uprated front seats

Not much of an update ...
Brought a donor vehicle that had a rebuilt engine and gearbox ..so that's sorted out the manual conversion I can finally get rid of that automatic gearbox in the riley 

These are such a nice old car. Sadly have to admit that I helped kill a number of these and similar in the mid 70’s stripping them out for bomber racing. They’re ultimate demise generally happened at “sunny vale” at Hipperholme near Halifax.
Many a classic destroyed there in the 70’s.

The ERF in the first pic drew my eye, ec14 I think ? Drove a couple of these and were an absolute joy once you’d mastered the Eaton twin splitter box they had in them. The definitive of TOURQUE and the ability of being able to keep it in the sweet spot with the absolute dream of a box. Don’t miss a gear though because they will punish you.

georgeb maybe able to relate to this from his experience


Christ ! They destroyed a lot of cars at Halifax !

Yes the donor has no sills, it patched everywhere underneath, the doors have had it, and the drivers rear qtr is home made