PXS 897

["Slack Alice" Simon]

PXS 897  Box Saloon

My neighbour is showing an interest in this car, which is offered for sale by a dealer.

If anyone knows of this car, could they PM comments to me, please.

Thanks

Simon

[Ivor Hawkins]

Once again Simon, the vital importance of having the original registration number would help, I could be wrong but it looks like an age related number.

I certainly don’t remember seeing a box with that number, it’s pretty distinctive...

[Bill Dixon]

Check shows MG,not A7 ?

["Slack Alice" Simon]

Apologies, everyone.

My eyesight, combined with a back up monitor - the good one broke yesterday - it is

PXS 697

[Reckless Rat]

Good number for anyone suffering from Prostate problems...

[Hugh Barnes]

THis may help...

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1468473

[Ivor Hawkins]

I’ll stick my head above the parapet then, in the hope that I won’t get my head blown off!

The photographs appear to show a pretty solid car, with a straight body.

Items which require attention, apart from the cosmetics, such as the ventilators, which should be painted, the lack of the painted inner section of the radiator cowling and the Austin script being in the wrong place, the interior trim should have leather facings, the door pockets are missing and the headlining, particularly around the sunshine roof needs sorting out.

All these items, together with the loss of the original registration number, adversely effect its value.

If the buyer isn’t worried and just wants a Seven to drive, then get haggling!

[Mike Costigan]

It would be prudent to check the door and A-pillar condition, both doors seem to droop at the rear.

[Hedd_Jones]

 the lack of the painted inner section of the radiator cowling 

What bits are they Ivor?

[Reckless Rat]

Not bits, Hedd, he means the swaged inner moulding to the chrome rad surround (facing the front). It should be painted black, not chrome.