What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Hedd_Jones]

that and the nickle cowl is what really made me like it when I went to see it.

[Nick Lettington]

The other thing that makes it work, is this car essentially has 80% of the original trim, (all the body side trim is original) so all the clamps etc are there, so they are very well secured, not just poked down into some holes like they were in the AE I had. 

Hedd

if you were to open the side screens in the rear, are they secured in any way, or do they just flap around..? The front ones obviously only have a pair of pins on the front half and are secured at the rear by a leather strap on a lift-a-dot, allowing you to open the rear section and secure it in the forward position. If the rears only folded in half for storage, they wouldn't have the sliding hinges to allow the front pin to be removed with the rear two in situ... I looked at several four seat tourers at Moreton but gave up trying to make sense of the variations, mostly as far as I could discern, not as originally supplied... is there a popper at the top to secure it to the side curtain or some other cunning device?

["Slack Alice" Simon]

On my '34 tourer, there is a bracket with a hole in it that allows you to fold the front half of the rear sidescreen and stick the floating leg into the hole in the bracket.  

This is situated just in front of the top of the rear seat.

About half the other Tourers at Moreton of similar age had this bracket.

I wasn't looking for it, but I think I saw a bracket in a similar position on a Chummy.   It was more like a pipe clip than the L shaped bracket with a hole that I have.

It is something easily lost when the car is re-upholstered, along with the screws that hold the side screen legs, maybe.

[Hedd_Jones]

Nick, having never tried, I thought Id have a look and try. 

The front half of the rear pair as you say lifts in the hinges and folds, but in that case back and inwards. 

The pin just seems to sit against the body side, there is no catch for it, nor it seems has there ever been on my 'cards', which I believe are the 1928 originals. Actually it runs against the clamp screw. There is however a funny metal bit on the screen that I do not know what it is for. That said with the screen folding back, there is no real need to secure it, the windflow will keep it closed. 

The screens are clearly replacements, but the ironmongery is not, so I guess this little piece is probably original and faithfully replaced when they were remade.

These are the unknown (to me bits of metal). They are however on the front of the back half of the screens

   

As you note the folded front screen is secured by a strap in the bottom back corner (when shut) of the front screen to a lift the dot between the top door hinge and the windscreen on the scuttle. Not sure if lift the dots are the original fixing method , but photos seem to show the location is correct.

[gezparton]

    Josie and I went to Rustington Hall for a car show for the resident’s. Many cars, bikes and scooters!

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[JoeRowing]

Several trips round Devon now she's pulling well and running so sweetly.
   

[Tony Griffiths]

Anne's birthday - so took the day off, had lunch in a local pub and a drive around the Peak District. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kKJeYXccO8

[Howard Wright]

Hi Tony and Anne

Matching hats! There’s posh.

Liz and I just had a quick trip for fuel and then down to Builth Wells for a walk along the river Wye.  I always take a photo of the parking ticket on the windscreen.  It’s too easy a target for petty thieves.

Note the stickers  .

Cheers

Howard



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[Tony Griffiths]

Hi Tony and Anne

Matching hats! There’s posh.

Liz and I just had a quick trip for fuel and then down to Builth Wells for a walk along the river Wye.  I always take a photo of the parking ticket on the windscreen.  It’s too easy a target for petty thieves.

Note the stickers  .

Cheers

Howard

I think the stickers might be "keepers". What a summer we're having - just like 1976.

[frequentflyer]

When we fitted ours I was careful to run the power file over the mating part of the spring as they are often suppplied with a square edge. My thoughts were both parts should have matching rads.