1967 Wolseley Hornet Mk3 for sale

A bit of history before I list the spec,
For sale is our ’67 Hornet in Maroon and Toca White – we bought the Hornet in June 2012 from an old gentleman who had become too old to drive. He originally owned the car many years previously, it had then stayed local to his area and he then bought it back in 2010. He kept it garaged (under dust-sheets) and passed to us previous MOT documents and old tax discs etc.
I used the car as a daily driver towards the end of 2012 and into 2013 and ran the car through that bad winter we had – it lived on our driveway, performed brilliantly and was very reliable. I used a half car cover over night and it never failed to start or deal with the heavy snow we had here in the Midlands. We then garaged the car around May 2012 and have used it ever since as a fun car with summer commutes to work etc. It’s started and generally used every week and now resides permanently in the garage.
The car isn’t a show car (I’ve had those and ended-up never driving them...) and we deliberately searched-for and bought one that we wouldn’t be too precious about using every day and that still looked good and was solid and reliable. It thus does have some marks, paint on driver’s door/scuttle panel/front n/s wing not as shiny as rest of car, some local bubbling but is a very reliable, good-looking and well-spec’d car that you’re not terrified to leave in the Tesco car park. It never fails to attract attention when we’re out and about, especially when fuelling-up  

Spec:
1098cc engine on a standard 4 speed manual gearbox (synchro on all gears) – pretty nippy!
HS2 single carb
Mini Spares water heated inlet manifold
LCB manifold & RC40 twin box exhaust (c/w tailpipe extension)
copper head gasket
alternator
radiator changed at some point (as it has Rover sticker on top)
converted to dry suspension (so no hydrolastic worries or sagging suspension concerns)
negative earth
original distributor/front engine cover
10” steel wheels c/w 4 matching chrome hubcaps and radial tyres
Interior light, illuminated grille badge etc all functioning
Pressed number plates
Winding windows
Front inertia reel seatbelts
Locking fuel filler cap
Manual (original push plunger) and electric washer jets pump (in parallel)
Fully carpeted c/w small discrete additional front mats
Driver and passenger sun-visors
Roof-mounted aerial
Door handle escutcheons (both sides)

Period accessories:
Paddy Hopkirk throttle pedal
Desmo wing mirrors (both sides)
Reversing light (operated via a manual switch under the dash)
TIM Rev counter
Original jack/wrench (also comes with a new & un-used modern scissor jack)

Work undertaken since we bought the car in June 2012:
Not an exhaustive list (ie. doesn’t cover regular oil changes and general checks/adjustments etc) but captures the key items,
- new distributor cap & rotor arm fitted June 2012
- in-line fuel filter added c/w new fuel lines to carb July 2012. Fuel filter changed again early 2015
- new SU carb float lid & valve & float assy fitted c/w new gasket July 2012  
- changed wiper blades for new stainless ones Oct 2012
- fitted NOS FM radio stereo cassette Oct 2012 (using original single speaker on rear parcel shelf)
- new SU fuel pump fitted Jan 2013
- new rear o/s brake cylinder c/w new brake line & brake flexi Sept 2014
- new radiator cap Jan 2015
- front o/s driveshaft gaiter & front n/s steering rack gaiter changed Jan 2015 (done by local garage who specialise in classics)
- new Yuasa heavy duty battery Aug 2015

Spares and paperwork etc which will come with car:
Haynes Mini manual
Full car cover (new – never been used)
Half car cover
New fan belt
Pair of new speakers (I bought these to hide under the rear seat but my wife was happy with the sound quality out of the original single speaker on the rear parcel shelf)
All receipts for work/parts under our ownership
Misc old MOTs and tax discs
Wolseley keyring
Elf Hornet Register tax disc holder
V5 in our name

MOT until 24.1.16 and obviously tax free
Pictures taken on 1.11.15 - these will be updated shortly as soon as I can get to a coffee shop etc for wifi (our phone-line has a fault somewhere meaning virtually unusable broadband speeds and BT are into their 3rd week of trying to fix it.....)

£2700

Contact Craig - pm or reply if interested.

and some pics








engine/distributor cover removed for pic

Hi Craig,I've sent you a PM

michaelp wrote:Hi Craig,I've sent you a PM

just pm'd you back Michael - sorry for the delay, fighting with useless broadband here....

now SOLD