Old British car in American state capital (6)
I believe the answer is:
austin
'state capital' is the definition.
(state capital of Texas)
'old british car in american' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'car' could be 't' and 't' is located in the answer.
'in' is within the answer.
'american' could be 'us' (abbreviation for United States) and 'us' is found within the answer.
A single letter 'a' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for austin that I've seen before include "US state capital - old English car manufacturer" , "Engineer" , "Texan state capital" , "Capital city of Texas" , "Texan city" .)