Which was the most recent British car to have a starting handle as
standard?

dix

dixthewiz (john (AT) delaney85 (DOT) fsnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

British made, or British available?

If the latter, then almost certainly 2cv in 1990.

On 22 Aug 2006 11:45:57 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I should think British Made would be the Landrover Series III, which
had a starting handle up untill 1983.

I don't know wether the 90/110 came with the option of a starting
handle, but certainly by the Defender in 1987 it had gone.

Alex

In article <e0ame25288b73m1ktmfvtv3phv8olepas0 (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>,
Alex <nospam.alex (AT) cbmsys (DOT) co.uk> wrote:
Early 110s certainly had a handle, as did 90s (IIRC!). The Range Rover
had a handle at one stage, but that went some time in the 80s - maybe
with the EFi models (it had certainly gone by the time they made
mine in '90).

For imported, the last-to-have-one might be the Hindustan Ambassador,
which was imported for a while in the 1990s.

--
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On 22 Aug 2006 17:10:03 +0100, azb (AT) aber (DOT) ac.uk (Andrew Robert Breen)
wrote:

Mm. Early carb v8's had a handle (including the 101) but they were a
bugger to start on it. I only have parts manual for Defender 87-on,
which clearly shows no provision for a starting handle, so i don't
know when it was deleted. I imagine the advent of the 2.5petrol and
2.5 diesel killed it off, the 2.25 diesels were hard enough to start
on a handle as it was.

Alex