60 years of Austin Seven ownership…

[Howard Wright]

Quite a  thread you sparked off here Dunford junior---- perhaps someone experienced in these matters could offer a piece in the Association Mag on the early  750 trialling scene?
I believe the few remaining bits of my '63 Beaulieu entry ( Super Accessories special BGP53 ) are now living with Nick lettington??

And how come David C -- who I recall looked just like that above pic at the Phoenix where we first met is still recognisable when most of us have  awfully deteriorated--?

IC

I’m happy to include in the Grey Mag if someone wants to write something.

Cheers

Howard

[John H]

   

Some members of this forum will remember my late father Graham Hall, who bought his chummy "Corky" in 1963. The attached photo shows my dad, with mum and friend Jill in the back, taken in 1963 just after he bought the car. I still have the car here, having inherited it when my dad died in 2014. I grew up with this car, and it was actually the first car I ever drove! Cheers, John.

[Reckless Rat]

Graham is still sadly missed, John. I still have a fan spindle he gave me years ago.

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Your father’s car is an extremely good example of a very correct 1929 tourer, I only saw it in the flesh once (when we met up in the snow with them near Bakewell one Easter), but was immediately struck with how nice it was.

If I find the snow photos I will post them up…

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Found them!

               

[John H]

Excellent, thanks Ruairidh. The last two look like Monsal Head car park. J.

[Steve Jones]

Tremedous photos, Ruairidh, featuring our long terms friends John and Chris Gray and Graham and Pauline Hall as well as your family when the were rather younger than they are now. Graham was one of my very best friends and I miss him still. His number remains in my phone and I still can't come to delete it. That 'Corky' remains with John is as Graham wanted and it's good that it remains in such excellent hands. For some years we had a similar 1929 Chummy. Both being the same maroon, to the untrained eye they were the same although Graham's was the better one. One Sunday we were travelling together to lunch in Pocklington and that meant crossing through central York. At we stopped at some traffic light two young American girls came running up to us saying 'Hey, your cars are great, where did you hire them from?' When I was building my Ulster in 2013 he phoned one morning. Asking what I was up to, I replied that I was trying to find a way to hold a particular bolt in place whilst i fitted a nut but couldn't reach them both. Forty or so minutes later, Graham pulled onto my drive in his Mercedes and, on getting out, he simply said 'Do you want me to hold the bolt or the nut?' As I said, one of my very best friends.

Steve

[Chris Garner]

Yes Graham was a lovely man and I know is much missed. Am taken with the photo of John, he doesn't seemed to have aged much since!

[Malcolm Parker]

Great photos taken in the snow.  Graham and Pauline took part in almost every Coast to Coast, Pennine or other run that I organised over the years, as have John and Chris Gray.  I think one year Steve lent Graham his box saloon to do the Pennine Run and he had a puncture on the wild moors near Middleton in Teesdale. I was following in my 31 saloon and was able to lend him a footpump to inflate the spare wheel to the correct pressure.   Great mirth ensued when Graham unwrapped the footpump from the pyjama bottoms it was wrapped in, the waist cord still tied in a bow!
Happy days!

[Reckless Rat]

I have learnt something today. I always thought John Gray's car was a 4 seat tourer, not a PD. Ah well you live and learn... perhaps I never really paid much attention in days gone by.