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Speeded at C&C
Duncan Grimmond Offline
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#1
03-07-2021, 11:50 AM
There’s a Speedex on cCar&Classics…£13-18k
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03-07-2021, 02:00 PM
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/auctions...dex-JgzXR4
lots of photos... and he seems to be selling another Seven in the background.
Interesting that on C&C link you can see the partial names of all the bidders. That surely can't be legal?
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03-07-2021, 03:30 PM
Duncan.  Thank you for the heads up as it were but that's a rather drastic route when all I need is the Speedex head!

Looking closely at the details (I'm an engineer... it's what I do...) the steering rack intrigued me, then I noticed that the chassis is, well, um... not quite what one would expect..?


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03-07-2021, 04:43 PM
Just curious where they get the 1928 date from as I can't see many Austin bits on this special. The crankcase is much later.
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03-07-2021, 05:13 PM
The original car, UW 1776, which appears to have been a 750 racing special since the late 1950s, dates from September 1929.
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03-07-2021, 06:28 PM
The copy writer certainly seems to have been on something when he wrote the blurb for this! From his fulsome coverage of the car in its 'hay-day' (sic) to his enthusiasm for the way the S.U. carburettor 'extrudes (also sic)  from aluminium bonnet' letting out all the induction noise you could ever ask for (no, not a lot, really).

I won't be bidding, but I enjoyed the write-up.
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03-07-2021, 06:34 PM
You'd be getting plenty of patina for your money if you bought that...
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03-07-2021, 08:18 PM
... and don't forget the £5,000-worth of wheels!
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#9
03-07-2021, 10:11 PM
the steering wheel just about sums it up.... 'ropey'
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03-07-2021, 11:00 PM
The copy writer certainly seems to have been on something when he wrote the blurb for this! From his fulsome coverage of the car in its 'hay-day' (sic) to his enthusiasm for the way the S.U. carburettor 'extrudes (also sic)  from aluminium bonnet' letting out all the induction noise you could ever ask for (no, not a lot, really).

I won't be bidding, but I enjoyed the write-up.

The write-up is a bad joke - and so is the car.
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