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Blown Ulster - ettore - 04-03-2025
...for auction:
https://auctions.hampsonauctions.com/auction/lot/lot-62---1931-austin-seven-ulster/?lot=2178&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=29&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=96&pn=1&g=1
Clearly several details not right but an interesting car if real. Does anyone know it?
RE: Blown Ulster - Mike Costigan - 04-03-2025
All I can say is buyer beware!
RE: Blown Ulster - Albert S - 04-03-2025
Sidestepping the auction house chutzpah what specifically constitutes “highly original” . Partaking in the Silverstone Anniversary Parade doesn’t count I’m afraid.
RE: Blown Ulster - Jeff Taylor - 04-03-2025
The Northumberland registration JR 4525 dates to 1936 not 1931. The original registration cards from this time are allegedly still held by Northumberland County Archives. It's also shown as an 'Old Entry' on the A7CA Chassis Register as an Ulster Replica with a chassis number dating it to 1931.
RE: Blown Ulster - ettore - 04-03-2025
This is the problem...
It's somewhat challenging to become a beware, or at least aware, buyer because it seems very difficult to access information about both the specific original detail and also the documented surviving cars/components. The A7OC chassis register is claiming this is a replica and it doesn't appear on the 'survivors' list that I have, albeit the latter is apparently about 40 years old.
Someone should write a book!
RE: Blown Ulster - Robert Leigh - 04-03-2025
It's so 'original' that we don't get any under bonnet pictures.
RE: Blown Ulster - bystander - 04-03-2025
'Highly unoriginal' would be a more appropriate description! Gosh, its awful in almost every respect.
Robert - what underbonnet pictures there are appear to show a late hc head atop a mag engine (and an SU carb?)
A fool and his money......comes to mind
RE: Blown Ulster - dickie65 - 04-03-2025
The seat belts scare me !!!
RE: Blown Ulster - `Gordonhbm - 04-03-2025
I don't know where the anchor points for the seatbelts are. Could they be mounted to the chassis? If that was the case then the real worry is that your shoulder will be above the slot at the top of the seat. So in any accident the resultant forces produce high compressive loads on the spine which is most undesirable. It is wrong to call them seat belts if they have not been load tested to the required spec. You would have to call them restrainers.
RE: Blown Ulster - Steve kay - 04-03-2025
Do certain auction houses share access to an AI machine with nearby estate agents?