If you were to buy an Austin Seven today - what would you look for?

[Parazine]

I always look at the interior first. Original is good, a Ruby or Box with original leather seats, door cards and so on is worth far more to me that poorly replicated trim in Ambla, overstuffed with foam and held together with staples. Sadly original headlinings are very rare (and fragile) today.

Having said that, my Chummy didn't have anything inside it when I started on it so it all had to be recreated, hopefully reasonably correctly.

My RK saloon was retrimmed many years ago and now has its own patina from forty or fifty years of use.