Original - or an modification?

[Tony Griffiths]

My march 31 reg AF 4 seat tourer with alloy body, all original.  Terry.

Ah! That's the later car with a short scuttle first built as the AF. They all had louvres in their bonnet sides, the reference in the post is to the long scuttle cars with the short bonnet as used until the middle of 1930. It might have been that, like some of the early long-bonnet cars, short scuttle saloon cars, the open cars also had plain bonnet sides - though one has yet to be found. As a point of hyper-anorak interest, the first AF models had the louvres in two separate pressings, not the single rectangular pressing of all later models, with the bonnet catch on the raised section between the two.

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My AG (short chassis steel body Chummy) had double louvres.

Might you have a picture or two? I'd be very interested to see them.