18-06-2019, 11:57 PM
Newcomers to Sevens and accustomed only to moderns are either captivated by the general quaintness, unique handling and historic association of the cars... or horrified by the standards of yesteryear. Glad to see you are the former. The gear ratios are wide spaced; 3rd is more akin 2nd of powerful 3 speed makes. Unavoidable with a low powered car. But despite low power will climb where many others will not. If you can climb anything in the Pyrenees in top, these cannot be what I imagined! The only thing more sensitive to gradient is a push bike.
Worn timing gears make a lot of harmless clatter. And the general “smoothness” (“roughness”?) of 2 bearing engines is very sensitive to spark advance.
Although in recent times not in a Seven, nearly all my motoring over the decades has been done in markedly out of date cars. Recently inherited a "modern" ie 15 years old. Nobody gives it a glance!
Worn timing gears make a lot of harmless clatter. And the general “smoothness” (“roughness”?) of 2 bearing engines is very sensitive to spark advance.
Although in recent times not in a Seven, nearly all my motoring over the decades has been done in markedly out of date cars. Recently inherited a "modern" ie 15 years old. Nobody gives it a glance!