£38,000 Chummy

[Andy Bennett]

The thing I have always liked about the Austin Seven movement is that there is broadly no money to be made from restorations. The result is that people restore cars for themselves or for the love of it and are generous with their knowledge.
It also helps maintain spare parts in the reasonable price band area to help us all.
Appreciating this sale is most likely a silly blip from speculators who fancied a dabble on the side at a major auction, it of course won't help any of us for this to become a trend.
As to whether the restoration is over the top then that is purely a personal thing and for no one to overly criticise someone else's opinion or work.
I don't think it will set a new baseline and hope it doesn't.
Andy