What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Mark McKibbin]

Tanya finds it uncomfortable to sit in.

Good one 

[JonE]

the results of the drain cleaner/water corrosion bath - a nice newish casting     

[Steve Jones]

Well not today but Tuesday to Friday last week. Together with twenty odd other Sevens and a few others, Malcolm's 2019 'Cumbria Run'. To Malcolm's Tuesday, Masham to Grange over Sands on Wednesday, a day doing whatever Thursday and home Friday. Excellent company, excellent weather, excellent hotel, what more could we ask for.


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Wednesday morning at Chez Parker


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Wednesday Lunchtime. Now a trio of SWB Steel Saloons



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Wednesday evening, view from Hotel room over Morecambe Bay. 

Steve

[Chris KC]

Finally a new silencer and tailpipe for the 'Ulster'. Both inexpensive and home-made. I didn't get the curve of the tailpipe over the rear wing quite as I wanted, mainly due to pressing on when I should have stopped to slurp tea! That was the tricky part, as it sweeps in to hug the line of the tail. But it's serviceable and not bad for a first attempt I reckon - will do for now. Oh yes, and she's wearing her new tonneau cover, also home-made.

   

Going to add another photo as it took me a while to figure this out:

   

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the results of the drain cleaner/water corrosion bath - a nice newish casting 

Nice work Jon! Just a thought, but if you buy commercial kits to do this they contain a 'part 2' which neutralises the acid (or alkali) and stops further unintended head-munching. At least give it a jolly good flush with water.

[Steve kay]

   

The Bradshaw's Chummy and a certain Ruby, outside Brook House, Himbleton, before the Inter-Register Batho Trophy Scatter Rally. Sevens did not scoop up prizes, but finished faultlessly and having suffered no sort of mechanical derangement.  A  particularly pleasant event, no crews came to blows, no formal protests lodged about results, and afterwards everyone stayed chatting outside the pub on a summer's afternoon.

[Tony Griffiths]

Many decades ago, travelling to London from Sheffield with fellow students in a well-worn, bald-tyred Austin A40 bought for £5, we had gone as far as Workshop and were following an ancient articulated lorry along a straight, wide road. To our surprise, a load crack heralded the departure of the trailer’s pair of nearside wheels, which then proceeded to roll randomly across the road from side to side - quite a mesmerising sight. However, after a few seconds the wheels took it upon themselves to stabilise and take permanently to the right-hand lane, this also being occupied by a Mini - but coming in the opposite direction at speed. ‘Ah, ah', we all though, 'This is it. One big accident coming up’.  However, at the very last moment - and just before striking the Mini - the wheels veered sharp right and crashed through a substantial hedge into a field. The problem now was to overtake the lorry and inform the (quite oblivious) driver as to what had happened. Eventually, on a long downhill stretch the asthmatic Austin managed to get by and we flagged him down.

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Very well done. One more saved and back on the road.

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Very well done. One more saved and back on the road.

[agmatthews]

Reassembling the diff and rear axle today after a strip down and clean.

   

Had to concentrate to get everything together.
Suddenly had a feeling I was being watched!

   

He’s just a wild local that knows I might have a spare apple.

[Tony Press]

Just to point out that is not inner Melbourne.

[Bob Culver]

He probably feels an affinity for a car which can hop like him.

[agmatthews]

Just to point out that is not inner Melbourne.

True, the shed is about 45 mins west of Melbourne, 10 km north of Bacchus Marsh. 

Andrew