23-10-2018, 12:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-10-2018, 08:22 AM by Ritchie Wilson.
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Kia ora kautou Bob
I too have thought your reminiscences could be recorded - perhaps for the VAR magazine - particularly the very long-term, inter-generational Austin ownership.
My grandfather owned a series of Austins before the war and he left his last car to my sister. It was an Austin - the very first of the BMC minis with the sliding windows and the starter on the floor. It eventually died an honourable death due to extreme rust. When I bought my first car my father supervised the process. We only looked at Rubies and Dad was most careful to ensure we didn't get one with Girling brakes which his family's Austin Ten had had and which had caused trouble "on the Killmog".
I did send you an email last year when you were under the pump for deviating from the party-line on some issue, but I understand the system is flawed.
I was away from the forum (which I think is superb) for a couple of weeks because we were in Tassie. I didn't see any Jowetts there, but I did see a couple of Sevens. One in Hobart near the Governor's mansion. It was a 28 or so tourer, with truly immaculate red paint, being unloaded from a enclosed trailer. I tried to take a picture, but I was on the upper deck of an open city tour bus which had sailed past before I was organised. The other was a fabric-bodied special in the car museum in Lonnie in the north. I would post a pic but I haven't found the "attachments" button yet.
Anyway congratulations on you Reputation score - which didn't all come from me.
I too have thought your reminiscences could be recorded - perhaps for the VAR magazine - particularly the very long-term, inter-generational Austin ownership.
My grandfather owned a series of Austins before the war and he left his last car to my sister. It was an Austin - the very first of the BMC minis with the sliding windows and the starter on the floor. It eventually died an honourable death due to extreme rust. When I bought my first car my father supervised the process. We only looked at Rubies and Dad was most careful to ensure we didn't get one with Girling brakes which his family's Austin Ten had had and which had caused trouble "on the Killmog".
I did send you an email last year when you were under the pump for deviating from the party-line on some issue, but I understand the system is flawed.
I was away from the forum (which I think is superb) for a couple of weeks because we were in Tassie. I didn't see any Jowetts there, but I did see a couple of Sevens. One in Hobart near the Governor's mansion. It was a 28 or so tourer, with truly immaculate red paint, being unloaded from a enclosed trailer. I tried to take a picture, but I was on the upper deck of an open city tour bus which had sailed past before I was organised. The other was a fabric-bodied special in the car museum in Lonnie in the north. I would post a pic but I haven't found the "attachments" button yet.
Anyway congratulations on you Reputation score - which didn't all come from me.