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Unusual Austin for sale?
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#11
18-10-2022, 09:50 PM
Home made - not an item of grace.
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#12
18-10-2022, 10:12 PM
Maybe not graceful, but I think it has some charm, especially in this condition.  Apparently it has a Whatmough head of some sort?

   
   
   

(From additional photos kindly sent me by vendor Robert Johnson.)
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#13
18-10-2022, 11:24 PM
Whatmough Hewett head is well worth bidding on!
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#14
19-10-2022, 08:57 AM
What is the benefit of that head? Higher compression maybe or softer burn?
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19-10-2022, 09:04 AM (This post was last modified: 19-10-2022, 09:07 AM by Hugh Barnes.)
Does anyone have a link to the original advert? I've looked but failed to find it...

Ah, hang on....

https://www.rijohnson.co.uk/stock_show.a...stin+Seven+
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#16
19-10-2022, 10:11 AM
I suppose the idea came from some of the other Coupes around at the time?  Swallow, Mulliner, Avon etc. 


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 I wonder if one of companies offering Seven accessories ever produced a roof like the one on the boat-tail?
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19-10-2022, 10:51 AM
were they all bench seat?? that looks vaguely original...
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19-10-2022, 10:59 AM (This post was last modified: 19-10-2022, 11:21 AM by Colin Morgan.)
From a quick look on-line, boat-tails didn't usually have bench seats.
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19-10-2022, 11:03 AM
Sports Coupe Prototypes always had a bench seat.
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#20
19-10-2022, 11:05 AM
Well I'd give it garage room...
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