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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - bob46320 - 23-06-2021
Over the last couple of days, we set out to climb our local mountain in the RN. Having cleaned the plugs and points, adjusted the brakes so that they worked (as best as any 7 could expect), we were ready. Its a 278 mile round trip and the odometer had just flipped over with a start reading of 0013 (ominous I thought). All went exceedingly well and the overnight stop was in a wood cabin 20 feet up in a beech tree on the side of hill outside Aurilac. Early day 2, nice and cool and about a 20 mile easy slow climb in top warmed her little heart up for the 6 mile grind in 2nd gear up sections of 15% gradient to climb Puy Mary 1589 meters in the Volcans region of the Cantal region of SW France. Couple of nasty hairpin bends called for 1st gear and even at one stage near the peak managed a few hundred yards in top! fantastic views and superb weather. The trip down - quite hairy using engine braking as much as possible and apart from one rear brake seizing on after a fuel stop, no problems to report.
Look on the bright side Bruce, plenty of logs for the stove next year! Perhaps AXA will pay you to chop them up??
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Reckless Rat - 23-06-2021
Nice one Bob. That's not a bad hill. You need to get over this way and get up and over the "Bonnette". To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee, " that ain't a hill, THIS is a hill! (2809 metres). Doing yours twice doesn't count. ?
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Ruairidh Dunford - 25-06-2021
Summer drive out in the Highlands!!
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Steve Jones - 25-06-2021
Whereabouts in the Highlands, Ruairidh? We left Antlaharra mid week where the weather was glorious. Now at Yellowcraig on our way home.
Steve
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Griffiths - 25-06-2021
Wow! That's really getting a move on!
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Ruairidh Dunford - 25-06-2021
There appears to be a theme with speedos and me just now Tony!
And not the kind used in swimming pools...
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Ruairidh Dunford - 25-06-2021
Steve, it was 21c in Glasgow this morning, Grantown was rather wet however!
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Griffiths - 25-06-2021
(25-06-2021, 08:34 PM)Ruairidh Dunford Wrote: There appears to be a theme with speedos and me just now Tony!
And not the kind used in swimming pools...
Distracted today wiring in an indicator buzzer (surprising how one misses the sound, by now we must be hard-wired to expect it): https://www.vehiclewiringproducts.co.uk/c-219-relays-flasher-units/p-637-cab-buzzer.
For greater realism, you now have blurred scenery and a more-than-healthy charge from the dynamo....
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Bob Culver - 26-06-2021
When i was a small boy playmates were very interested in the RP speedo calibrated to 80 mph! Although my father regularly drove long distances at 45 mph, then a generous cruising speed, he professed to only once going to 50. (and the crank was still intact at 110,000) Incidentally the car of the moment amongst schoolboys was the new"coming or going" Studebaker. Many kids boasted to have an uncle with one.The flashest car in town was a dollar grin Buick 8 run by the local canning mogul Wattie.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Henry Harris - 26-06-2021
Checking the half-shaft nuts.