your first 747.5cc side-valve

[Parazine]

I was 19 in January 1977, when I bought the latest known Ruby, TL 8106, registered January 1939. All the late mods, rod brakes, plastic handbrake handle, bar on the rad cap etc. I owned the car for four or five years, completely rebuilt it and covered about 50,000 miles in it, using it as my only car for much of that time. TL 8106 is still out there somewhere, I met the (then) owner about 10 years ago.



I sold the car in the early eighties, replacing it with a July '32 SWB box saloon, easily the fastest Austin Seven I have owned.