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left-hand drive Ruby for sale - Mike Costigan - 07-12-2019
https://www.prewarcar.com/295591-austin-seven-ruby-1935-lhd
A French car, now for sale in the Netherlands; chassis number quoted is not on the Register.
Dare to be different!
RE: left-hand drive Ruby for sale - Steve kay - 08-12-2019
Good lord, below the lhd Ruby on the web site is a Seven Special with a 6cyl Ford Model B engine! No under bonnet photos, and from the Netherlands not Germany as indicated by the lack of leather satchels. Suitable for Pendine or Shelsley, or just for a university research project on torsional rigidity?
RE: left-hand drive Ruby for sale - JonE - 08-12-2019
it would be a great shame if that gets dragged over to the UK and becomes another BF (or whatever has replaced its run) plate from lack of UK reg history... looks lovely but get it back to France where it belongs! Do they manage to retain original plates over there when back in place of first registration?
RE: left-hand drive Ruby for sale - Alan - 08-12-2019
Don’t know Steve, but the Model B was a four cylinder.
RE: left-hand drive Ruby for sale - Steve kay - 08-12-2019
Alan, not at all sure we can beleive anything on that ad. Maybe the underbonnet photo would actually show a 3cyl Kubota engine.
RE: left-hand drive Ruby for sale - Rogerfrench - 08-12-2019
French plates tell you nothing about original registration.
RE: left-hand drive Ruby for sale - Mike Costigan - 08-12-2019
Yes they do, Roger; or at least, the old plates do. In this case the Ruby's number ends in either 86 or 88; 86 was issued in the Vienne/Poitiers region, and 88 was Vosges/Epinal.
RE: left-hand drive Ruby for sale - Reckless Rat - 08-12-2019
The older style French plates only tell you in which Departement the car was LAST registered, not FIRST registered. Prior to the new style registrations adopted in 2009, a French registration would change whenever the owner (or a new owner) changed residence from one department to another. It's no guarantee of original provenance unless the owner(s) never moved from the Departement where the car was originally registered.
The departmental marker on the new style plates can be whatever you want it to be as it's entirely optional.
RE: left-hand drive Ruby for sale - JonE - 08-12-2019
So fill your boots then! Buy as many lhds as you can!
What does the advert actually say - is it a good runner? Seems a lovely old thing if it does.
RE: left-hand drive Ruby for sale - Mike Costigan - 08-12-2019
Probably not, Jon. The advert basically says 'Imported from France, Left Hand Drive, Smart Body, Completely complete(!)'