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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Steve kay - 15-05-2021
Ivor, there was a famous story about Koke Rosberg doing that outside Gerhard Berger’s flat inMonaco, after the sort of evening that present day F1 drivers would be sent home in disgrace if they were found out.
Talking of starter motors, a pal who is an occasional contributor attached his bacon slicer, newly rewound and back bursting with vigour, pressed the button and it promptly stripped the threads and detached itself.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Ivor Hawkins - 15-05-2021
(15-05-2021, 10:32 AM)Steve kay Wrote: Ivor, there was a famous story about Koke Rosberg doing that outside Gerhard Berger’s flat inMonaco, after the sort of evening that present day F1 drivers would be sent home in disgrace if they were found out.
Glad I’m in revered company!
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Dave Wheatley - 15-05-2021
Started the car first time for over a year. First button push. Fuel over a year old too. Sorry to say I am parting with him/her.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Oxford Jack - 15-05-2021
The '29 Chummy that was one of the three cars on our Buenos Aires to NYC trip in 2013, stripped the starter motor bolts in Davide, Panama. I had carried a cargo strap with me following Vince Leeks example when he held the front of his car together on an earlier Argentine trip. We fitted it around the body of the starter and under the gearbox, pulled it up tight and finished the journey to NYC, there starter never faltered. It now forms part of the distance journey pack I carry.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Steve kay - 22-05-2021
What some of us did on Thursday was the Five Hills Tour, ascending five historic hillclimbs. Two Chummys took part, three other Seven owners coming in other members of their fleet, or in one case, a person whose name I have been bribed not to mention, in none of the cars of his fleet. Secret enough, Peter? As previously illustrated a full recce was done in my Ruby, on the day I drove a 19.6 Crossley, in which approximately ten per cent of the number of gear changes needed in a Seven are required, or maybe only five per cent. Rear wheel brakes on a machine that size are fine when the road surface is dry, there were slightly worrying moments in the heavy rain. Ray and Barbara Moses in BS9623 and Jenny and Malcolm Lyon in FL7165 are going vigorously round a hairpin above Drybrook. The Frazer Nashes were going sideways, the three wheeler Morgans had several wheels pointing in a variety of directions, but all completed the day.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Griffiths - 22-05-2021
Fitted the correct throttle pedal and the link arm to the hand throttle (thank you, Malcolm) and made up the missing throttle and ignition hand-control rods. An interesting and satisfying little exercise in getting the lengths right, bending the ends over neatly and drilling tiny holes for the split pins.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - "Slack Alice" Simon - 24-05-2021
Covered about 100 miles, thanks to Calne Rotary Classics Run. Now feeling a lot more confident in the car.
Managed to stay with the other A7s - two Chummies - until navigation went a little pear-shaped.
Slowed due to a persistently sticking NSF brake. Maybe now cured by chamfering the outer edges of the shoes.
Discovered the kingpins are wobbling in the axle eyes, so will need work. Tightened the "cotters" for now.
Found the block holding down nuts not tight - forgot to re-do a third time. Silicon gasket. Presumably now have a bit more valve lift.
Oil everywhere down the engine nearside. If not the base or the tappet cover - also silicon - maybe the oil pump drive cover, needs further investigation.
Big smile on face, though. Didn't have to stop for fuel blockage, maybe successive drainings of tank have finally reduced the crud content.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Hugh Barnes - 26-05-2021
In the 50 years I have owned Austin 7s, I have never owned a Chummy. I referred to it as 'an itch I needed to scratch..' Today, I scratched and drove 140 miles home in 'The Itch'....
It really warranted a better photo than one taken in a layby on the side of the A412 near Denham as I stopped for a sarnie...
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Ivor Hawkins - 26-05-2021
I thought I recognised the location! What a cracking looking Chummy, I hope it’s all you expect it to be, I have to say I love driving them.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Hugh Barnes - 26-05-2021
Thanks, Ivor. It is noisy, incontinent and has frighteningly uncomfortable seats, but I love it already...