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‘Baby’ Austins and their owners get together in Cornwall

18th June 2026

Kim Henson was there, and reports… (All words and photographs © Kim Henson). During the last weekend in May this year, the Austin A30/A35 Owners’ Cub held the organisation’s annual International Rally at the Stithians Showground, near Truro in Cornwall. This year the event marked and celebrated 70 years since the introduction of the A35 in the summer of 1956 (this uprated model replacing … [Read more...]

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