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Floor Boards in Austins? - Colin Morgan - 12-01-2023
Talking with old Selwyn this morning, he says 'I can't abide cars with floor-boards'. Struck me steel floors are one of the unsung features of the Seven's design?
RE: Selwyn says - Reckless Rat - 12-01-2023
That's nothing. When I were a lad we were grateful for a floor. It were luxury!
RE: Selwyn says - Colin Morgan - 12-01-2023
My car needed a new floor - a necessity rather than a luxury as the old one had rusty away - but it was an easy enough welding job.
Selwyn didn't say why he abhorred floor boards - but I always imagine them being loose, uneven, rattling, letting in the wet, and rotting away so your boot went through. Having only ever had Sevens, this is only speculation.
RE: Selwyn says - Duncan Grimmond - 12-01-2023
I'm sure that many of us will have, in former years, "repaired" a rotted out floor with a flattened Castrol or Duckhams one gallon oil can...I know I have!
RE: Selwyn says - Mike Costigan - 12-01-2023
(12-01-2023, 02:44 PM)Colin Morgan Wrote: ... Selwyn didn't say why he abhorred floor boards - but I always imagine them being loose, uneven, rattling, letting in the wet, and rotting away so your boot went through. Having only ever had Sevens, this is only speculation.
I've owned several cars with timber floor boards, none have been loose, uneven, rattly, leaky or rotten! Personally I've found them to be an excellent design, enabling easy access to chassis, gearbox, propshaft etc.
RE: Selwyn says - Colin Morgan - 12-01-2023
Well, the only car I have examined closely that had floor boards was outside the back of hotel in Cornwall, sometime in the 1970s (an Alvis?), and the floor boards were all those things or missing - but, of course, most well-cared-for cars would be different. The steel floor pan in a Seven was a stroke of genius, though?
RE: Selwyn says - Ivor Hawkins - 13-01-2023
My Super Sportsman had wooden floorboards, but that’s because I was only earning about ten quid a week at the time...
RE: Selwyn says - Colin Morgan - 13-01-2023
Which Austins had wooden floors, I wonder - was a Ten metal? A Twelve? Presumably the massive plush cars had them.
RE: Selwyn says - Steve Jones - 13-01-2023
My 12/40 P Type Lea Francis had wooden floors that were excellent. Not loose, rattly or rotten and providing good access to the underside of the car. Made removing the gearbox very easy.
Steve
RE: Selwyn says - Ruairidh Dunford - 13-01-2023
The Cup Model has wooden floorboards.
Very quiet and removable for excellent access, I wish all Sevens had them so.