07-01-2021, 10:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-01-2021, 10:40 AM by Martin Prior.)
As a trader involved with A7 bodywork, I won't touch projects involving the replacement of a sound original body.
If the body has already been scrapped, very heavily damaged or modified, or is genuinely decayed beyond all saving (a lot aren't, despite claims to the contrary!) then I don't see any problem in a "creative restoration" in whatever style appeals to the owner.
There are plenty of butchered Austin Sevens out there already - we're working on two at the moment, which had little or no surviving original bodywork. There's no excuse for murdering a basically sound saloon, especially if it's going to be fitted with a hideous, poorly made new body!
If the body has already been scrapped, very heavily damaged or modified, or is genuinely decayed beyond all saving (a lot aren't, despite claims to the contrary!) then I don't see any problem in a "creative restoration" in whatever style appeals to the owner.
There are plenty of butchered Austin Sevens out there already - we're working on two at the moment, which had little or no surviving original bodywork. There's no excuse for murdering a basically sound saloon, especially if it's going to be fitted with a hideous, poorly made new body!