01-09-2024, 08:13 AM
What I did yesterday was to keep an eye on the Auction of Eric Guest’s collection of Austins.
It will not be too great a surprise that this is now very much a buyers market. Big elder cars fetch a reasonable price, the 1912 15 made £19,000 and the fully working 1920 20 made ££13,400. Smaller machines less so. Various Seven owners met at Chateau Impney and Much Marcle have all decided that their collection and restoration days are behind them, no more projects needed. Not being at Pontrilas I do not know who was there.
Some senior forum participants will remember that Ruby CLJ628 did the John O Groats-Lands End, still in good nick it fetched £3,500, the buyer could have driven it home but possibly not to Scotland. 27 Chummy has had a great deal of work and looked lovely, new electrics and recent magneto. Any of us would have fired it up and done sharp intake of breath on hearing timing gears, but not the biggest job to put right. Made £7,700. NG4810 is a beautiful barn find 33 box saloon. A couple of us, if we had been able to spend the time, would have done a through record particularly of the interior detail, worn and moth eaten but appearing to be exactly as it left Longbridge. Please please can an early response be from someone who has bought it to spend time putting it gently back to original. Made £2050.
Tens not fetching much, a very useable Litchfield took £2,200, and a well looked after 33 chrome rad tourer with good recent hood made £5800. If certain usual suspects had been standing about, the one machine that would have caused the pockets and change tins to be emptied and shared would have been the 1937, wholly genuine, complete Ten van kit of parts. Disc wheels, original body on the proper chassis in vgc, made only £1500! Unless certain forum contributors could not believe it at that price, any admissions later today?
Big thirties saloons not at all expensive for those who want them. Figures are hammer prices. All of which rather confirms that our Sevens are not investments, but exciting machinery for touring the countryside, breathing on to go faster up hills, or prepare for the trialling season. Or keep us warm and occupied in the workshop as those long winter nights get closer. I do hope that the new owner of NG4810 gets in touch, there is a forum of supporters and a splendid bunch of cherished specialist suppliers to help with your painstaking restoration.
It will not be too great a surprise that this is now very much a buyers market. Big elder cars fetch a reasonable price, the 1912 15 made £19,000 and the fully working 1920 20 made ££13,400. Smaller machines less so. Various Seven owners met at Chateau Impney and Much Marcle have all decided that their collection and restoration days are behind them, no more projects needed. Not being at Pontrilas I do not know who was there.
Some senior forum participants will remember that Ruby CLJ628 did the John O Groats-Lands End, still in good nick it fetched £3,500, the buyer could have driven it home but possibly not to Scotland. 27 Chummy has had a great deal of work and looked lovely, new electrics and recent magneto. Any of us would have fired it up and done sharp intake of breath on hearing timing gears, but not the biggest job to put right. Made £7,700. NG4810 is a beautiful barn find 33 box saloon. A couple of us, if we had been able to spend the time, would have done a through record particularly of the interior detail, worn and moth eaten but appearing to be exactly as it left Longbridge. Please please can an early response be from someone who has bought it to spend time putting it gently back to original. Made £2050.
Tens not fetching much, a very useable Litchfield took £2,200, and a well looked after 33 chrome rad tourer with good recent hood made £5800. If certain usual suspects had been standing about, the one machine that would have caused the pockets and change tins to be emptied and shared would have been the 1937, wholly genuine, complete Ten van kit of parts. Disc wheels, original body on the proper chassis in vgc, made only £1500! Unless certain forum contributors could not believe it at that price, any admissions later today?
Big thirties saloons not at all expensive for those who want them. Figures are hammer prices. All of which rather confirms that our Sevens are not investments, but exciting machinery for touring the countryside, breathing on to go faster up hills, or prepare for the trialling season. Or keep us warm and occupied in the workshop as those long winter nights get closer. I do hope that the new owner of NG4810 gets in touch, there is a forum of supporters and a splendid bunch of cherished specialist suppliers to help with your painstaking restoration.