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RE: Another dead-body Austin 7 - Peter Naulls - 18-09-2020
It did!
RE: Another dead-body Austin 7 - Dave Wortley - 18-09-2020
Sorry Tony B, did you say the seller’s name was Burke or was it Hare? I understand they used to sell body parts.
RE: Another dead-body Austin 7 - Colin Morgan - 18-09-2020
The Ruby front is Mk 2, the rear Mk 1, so not exactly matching numbers...
RE: Another dead-body Austin 7 - Steve kay - 18-09-2020
The seller is not known in those parts of the world, where packs of Sevens roam around Shropshire and Herefordshire. So what exactly are the origins of the machine in its cannibalised condition? Has anyone contacted the vendor, just to ask about the other components offered?
RE: Another dead-body Austin 7 - Tony Betts - 18-09-2020
steve,
its a clever ploy?
if he isnt a damn good dealer. he should be.
the rest of the parts will be offered to the highest bidder of the body first?
which in my eyes means, if you well over pay for the body. you may be idiot enough to well over pay for the rest?
and if you are not that stoopid, the next idiot gets the chance to be.
dave, b or h. he could be.
tony.
RE: Another dead-body Austin 7 - Tony Griffiths - 18-09-2020
(18-09-2020, 07:53 PM)Tony Betts Wrote: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-7-Chummy-Body-seven/154089033493?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160727114228%26meid%3Dad461467dbb8480692f6b8d938856583%26pid%3D100290%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D224106065014%26itm%3D154089033493%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2060778%26brand%3DAustin&_trksid=p2060778.c100290.m3507Yes, you've got it!
did it work ???
RE: Another dead-body Austin 7 - Zetomagneto - 18-09-2020
Crazy money for just a shell in need of restoration and when finished it will be a bitsa
RE: Another dead-body Austin 7 - Charles P - 18-09-2020
I tend to believe that most people are genuine and Waterski salesman are the minority.
I hold no brief for the vendor of the body, don't know him at all but it would appear that despite the cynicism here his surname is Breakwell (gleaned from social media)
I've said this before but I'll repeat it that when challenged on Facebook as to why he was selling a car in bits he said:
"it's not a complete car, the bits photographed are just a few in the house, I have multiples of almost all parts. The body was left over I believe when this car and others got split to build racing specials".
And elsewhere he posted pictures of a set of 60's pit passes and racing bits from his late uncle's estate, stating that his uncle was "a keen Austin 7 mechanic /racer" and noted that they weren't for sale.
I suspect the cars were broken when most of us were in short trousers. You could even suggest that these parts actually only exist because someone built specials way back.
Charles
RE: Another dead-body Austin 7 - Zetomagneto - 18-09-2020
And the good thing is the left over parts were not thrown away or scrapped.