{"id":4358,"date":"2025-12-11T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=4358"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:11:35","slug":"wolseley-hornet-special","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=4358","title":{"rendered":"1934 Wolseley Hornet Special"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in 2021 between lockdowns, I went to NSW to pick up the Hornet I won\u2019t go into the reasons for this, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Here are some early pictures of the car all I can say is that these 1930\u2019s people must have been very short and a bit blood thirsty as well. (note rifles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-IMG_20210619_0003-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-IMG_20210619_0003-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-IMG_20210619_0003-.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-IMG_20210619_0003--300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-IMG_20210619_0003--768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere between that photo and when it was rescued in the 70\u2019s the rear of the body was shortened, and a slab tank added. During the next 40 odd years it lived under a Queenslander where although protected from the environment it was not protected from the local Hornet owners who used it as a spare parts supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-IMG_20210804_0001-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-IMG_20210804_0001-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-IMG_20210804_0001-.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-IMG_20210804_0001--300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-IMG_20210804_0001--768x280.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 2012 Joe Wilson obtained the car with a 14hp engine and set about the daunting task of restoration. Initially Joe intended to fit a supercharger but evidently it did not run as hoped so it now has a pair of SUs but the supercharger is in a box so who knows. The car was registered in 2016 and has had 2 owners since and only covered about 3000 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-PXL_20210621_063945863-1-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-PXL_20210621_063945863-1-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-PXL_20210621_063945863-1-.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-PXL_20210621_063945863-1--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Resized-PXL_20210621_063945863-1--768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be thinking why has it had so many owners and so few miles? If I had had any sense, I would have asked the same question, no matter it just needs some or maybe a whole lotta love. More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2021 between lockdowns, I went to NSW to pick up the Hornet I won\u2019t go into the reasons for this, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Here are some early pictures of the car &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=4358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4358\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}