Building my first Austin Seven car

[Daisy Dunford]

thank you very much for the lovely comments, David, Colin, Ivor, Duncan, Ian, Andrew, Andy, Jamie, Dave and steve. 

Grieg, you are right! it is a pleasure to work with my Dad and i am very much enjoying it, thank you. i think i have decided that my car will be purple, i'm not sure what shade though. Dad thinks the grey looks nice, but i think it's a bit boring! and for the mudguards we were just thinking black.

hi Howard, we used a roller for the larger areas of the car and the brush for some of the trickier/harder parts to reach.

Andrew, thanks you for the painting tips. We were thinking of painting it but the man who paints Dad's cars for him has offered to paint it for free! but maybe i'll use those tips in the future.

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the first thing we did was rivet the bracket for the starter button.

   

then we took apart the starter button that we were going to use because it was very dirty. when we took it apart a bunch of red, rust, dust came out of it. we used Dad's noisy clearer/sand blaster. it was very satisfying to do. 

   

   

we then made an accelerator rod, we had to bend it quite a lot to make it fit. making the accelerator work was my favourite part because i didn't know how it really worked and where it came out and everything.