What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Malcolm Parker]

    The red supercharged car I took to Doune all those years ago was the Mk 1 which was loosely based on Mrs Jo-Jo in her late 1920's form.  That car had an ash and plywood body clad with aluminium.  The tail section was a plywood rib-cage covered in paper mache.   I sold the body to a pal who built it up on a redundant chassis and it has been in Germany for several years now, basically the same but with added leather saddle bags.
I rebodied the chassis with an Ulsteroid body and that car is now in the hands of a good freind who trials it.   The supercharged engine was retained and rebuilt as a normally aspirated unit and my intention was to use it in the Mk 2 sprint car but the plan now is to build up a new engine.
The new car is all aluminium save for the plywood bulkheads.  It has been built so everything is readily accessible and removal of the main body is a simple matter.  The photo below was taken two days ago.
The intention is to have it driveable by the end of the year and hopefully ready for a track testing day by the Spring.  In true Yorkshire fashion it has been a low-cost build using up whatever post-vintage parts I had in stock.