11-11-2021, 07:30 PM
Hello Martin
The history I have been given so far is:
Whilst resident in France for about 20 years, I restored various vehicles, and was involved in historic motor racing in Europe, primarily in a 1959 Kieft Formula Junior. In my travels, I came across an Austin 7 box saloon in a barn near Limoges. This must have been around 2005 . It had been there in storage for about 20 years or so....apparently, a British fellow had part-exchanged it with a Paris BL dealership on buying a new Mini, at a time when the French Government was offering a bonus on any old car being taken off the road. It was showing a reg no of GX 954, but no paperwork to go with it. However, the dealer taking it in whilst pocketing the bonus, was reluctant to send the A7 for scrap, and sent it to a friends barn in Limoges. With the barn going to be sold, the A7 had to go.
Having had up to that point 8 A7s myself (from a 1923 through saloons/chummy/ sports/and a racer which I won the 750MC racing championship in 1988), I thought I had moved on from A7s, but no, I couldn't pass this by. We trailered it home to the Dordogne, and over the years, between other cars, slowly took it apart to a bare chassis, and then built it up. With no old paperwork, it was re-registered 818 YUX, and I subsequently sold it to a dealer outside Dover.
Adrian.
The history I have been given so far is:
Whilst resident in France for about 20 years, I restored various vehicles, and was involved in historic motor racing in Europe, primarily in a 1959 Kieft Formula Junior. In my travels, I came across an Austin 7 box saloon in a barn near Limoges. This must have been around 2005 . It had been there in storage for about 20 years or so....apparently, a British fellow had part-exchanged it with a Paris BL dealership on buying a new Mini, at a time when the French Government was offering a bonus on any old car being taken off the road. It was showing a reg no of GX 954, but no paperwork to go with it. However, the dealer taking it in whilst pocketing the bonus, was reluctant to send the A7 for scrap, and sent it to a friends barn in Limoges. With the barn going to be sold, the A7 had to go.
Having had up to that point 8 A7s myself (from a 1923 through saloons/chummy/ sports/and a racer which I won the 750MC racing championship in 1988), I thought I had moved on from A7s, but no, I couldn't pass this by. We trailered it home to the Dordogne, and over the years, between other cars, slowly took it apart to a bare chassis, and then built it up. With no old paperwork, it was re-registered 818 YUX, and I subsequently sold it to a dealer outside Dover.
Adrian.