This looks to be a nice car, but why on earth has someone fitted a bench seat? That must make it very awkward to access the 'boot'.

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Hi guys,

How easy is it to whip the engine out of a Mk 1 Ruby? I have taken the bonnet off and radiator out and have very good all round access to the engine. I can see the 4 engine mounting points. I am happy to leave the gearbox in the car because it works fine. How is the gearbox connected to the engine? Many thanks for the help and advice. 

Does anyone have a discarded short wheelbase floorpan looking for a good home?

We need one, preferably from an RK, for a top-secret development project.

Absolutely any condition considered, as long as it's very cheap!

01432 820680 or buildingsbespoke@btinternet.com

Does anyone have a discarded short wheelbase floorpan looking for a good home?

We need one, preferably from an RK, for a top-secret development project.

Absolutely any condition considered, as long as it's very cheap!

Sorry, I know that this should be in "Wants", but I'm not convinced that anyone looks at that.

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One of the cast iron brake drums on my Seven Special needs skimming, can anyone recommend someone in the Cambridgeshire area? 
Many thanks
Paul

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Despite the fact that it rained a for a while last night, I did not take my Seven out today - wondering if there had been enough rain to wash away the salt.  Anyone know how much rain it takes, please?  (There was definitely some grit still on the roads, especially at junctions - but salt?)

Colin

Another from the ATF site
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Many will be familiar with the name of Kay Petre who, among many other wonderful motoring and racing exploits, drove the Jamieson twin-cam for the Austin works racing team in the mid 1930s.

I have just been reading S.C.H. (Sammy) Davis'  'Rallies and Trials', published in 1951 by Iliffe & Sons Ltd. He is describing his entry to the 1935 Monte Carlo Rally in an open four-seat Railton, and he gives an interesting description of Kay Petre that goes some way towards explaining her character. Thought I would share it with you, just for interest.

"The crew consisted, besides myself, of Charles Brackenbury, who was tough, and Mrs Kay Petre who had been of the crew the previous year. Kay, whom I had met earlier on and had helped when she began racing, was one of those puzzles that seriously upset elderly, ultra-conservative people to the point where they break blood vessels.

Small, amusing and decorative, she looks the last person who could stand hours and hours of driving, lap Brooklands at 130 and tackle any difficulty with the tenacity of a small cinnamon bear, especially when wearing the 'butter-won't-melt-in-my-mouth' expression. As a co-driver she is as tough as you can make them; nobody takes the job more seriously, nobody can last longer when really tired.

Henry Petre, her husband, I had met right away back in 1912-13 when we were all interested in the apparently insane idea that a thing that looked like a box kite made of odd wood, canvas and a weird rotary engine, could be made to fly. At this Henry was the cat's whiskers, his method of coming in to low over the roof of the Blue Bird Cafe at Brooklands with a Deperdussin monoplane in a high wind making strong men dive for cover below the stoutest tables saying altogether unprintable things. Anyhow, in the many years I have raced, or become involved in this or that competition, there is nobody I know better than Kay for the job and with whom one can have such frightful disagreements which arise like lightning from a clear sky and assume the proportions of an atomic explosion, only to die down in seconds leaving peace and friendship still unbroken. It is all most odd."

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Many aspects of motor vehicles defy immediate logic. For example top rings wear on the top surface not the bottom. Seven cranks often fail at the flywheel where there is little theoretical bending.

Older books which show diff cw mesh patterns often mildly state “with the cw rotated”. However in a recent book I found this very much emphasised. On a diff with good bearings I cannot see how the pattern would alter whether pinion or cw rotated. Any theories? 
Has anyone experimented and what did they notice? I sometimes wonder if it was meant to emphasise the cw pattern rather than the pinion pattern and  the editor got confused, but I have now read it in so many places this cannot be the case.

Hi Folks, has any body out there fitted new sills to an 1932 RP.  Is there an INNER sill.?
The sills on my RP have been replaced at some time and whilst grovelling underneath
recently I noticed what appeared to be an inner sill badly butchered.
I am wondering if new sills have been fitted over the top of the original ones and could
this be the cause of the doors sticking out at the bottom.