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12-09-2018, 07:32 AM (This post was last modified: 12-09-2018, 07:34 AM by Ruairidh Dunford.)
This unusual Australian built Coupe appeared on Facebook today with the text:

"Thanks for adding me this is my Dads 1932 Austin 7 ,he has had it since the 60s! Believed to be built in Melbourne by James flood coach builders and originally green , if anyone could help with some extra history on it would be good hope its of interest to you guys "


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12-09-2018, 08:15 AM
What a pretty car!
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12-09-2018, 08:35 AM (This post was last modified: 12-09-2018, 08:36 AM by JonE.)
from the facebook photos, it appears to have a later dash panel.
It almost harks at designs coming up several years later in the Ruby... I wonder if it was built later on an earlier chassis?
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12-09-2018, 08:49 AM
(12-09-2018, 08:35 AM)JonE Wrote: ... I wonder if it was built later on an earlier chassis?

I don't think so - the general style is totally in keeping with British body shapes of the 1931-32 period.
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12-09-2018, 10:10 AM
More photos (from Andrew Goodfellow):


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12-09-2018, 10:33 AM (This post was last modified: 12-09-2018, 10:35 AM by JonE.)
ah - so earlier ones have chummy tank... and later have a rear Mg style one.
When did the oval Nippy dash panel first appear?
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12-09-2018, 11:24 AM
1932, from memory.
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18-09-2018, 01:22 AM
(12-09-2018, 11:24 AM)Ruairidh Dunford Wrote: 1932, from memory.

Ruairidh - Although I never look at Facebook and haven't seen the dashboard in question, I guess it would be the same raised oval section, central in the dash, as the tourer that the Lovely Stella from the BA7C owned.  It had a chassis No. 141xxx, registered in September 1931, which would have been the announced 1932 model.  So you're right again!   Cheers,  Bill
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18-09-2018, 12:19 PM
The white one has a Meteor style front and the black one looks more like a Wasp front.
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