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Here is an alien for you! - "Slack Alice" Simon - 24-10-2018
There is a strange shaped being on Classic Trader, for those who like to identify such things!
Under "Austin 7"
Simon
RE: Here is an alien for you! - Peter Naulls - 24-10-2018
A Chummy on steroids!
Peter.
RE: Here is an alien for you! - Martin Prior - 24-10-2018
What a weird and wonderful thing! There obviously really is a 1927 Chummy hiding in there!
https://www.classic-trader.com/uk/cars/listing/austin/7/7-tourer/1927/132967
RE: Here is an alien for you! - Ruairidh Dunford - 24-10-2018
It has a boot! I can see possibilities, I have growing family...
RE: Here is an alien for you! - JonE - 24-10-2018
so those wheels appear to be three stud - is that standard underneath? and if so, what ARE the wheels from?
RE: Here is an alien for you! - Martin Prior - 24-10-2018
A number of other strange Spanish A7 hybrids, probably assembled just after WW2 and using whatever parts were available, have surfaced in the last few years and this looks very much out of the same mould. The wheels seem to be a common theme.
There usually seems to be a slightly improbable back story, often involving the word "prototype"!
Whatever its origins, I think that this is a lovely, mad, quirky little car. I very much hope that it's left exactly as it is.
RE: Here is an alien for you! - Tony Betts - 24-10-2018
(24-10-2018, 08:19 PM)Ruairidh Dunford Wrote: It has a boot! I can see possibilities, I have growing family...
Come on R,
Not even you can get the kids to travel in the boot.
I do like the deep dish wheel, and switch panel though.
You never know, perhaps aliens collect austin 7s as well.
Maybe I'll take a look at it on my next road trip.
Tony.
RE: Here is an alien for you! - Ruairidh Dunford - 24-10-2018
RE: Here is an alien for you! - Colin Morgan - 24-10-2018
I like the overall impression it gives, and the leather interior.
Colin
RE: Here is an alien for you! - Mike Costigan - 25-10-2018
My initial reaction was one of horror, but actually I think I agree with Martin: that should be preserved as it is.The dealer is in Germany, so this presumably reflects how cars were kept going behind the Iron Curtain. It certainly looks to be based on a 1927 car, although the quoted identity is mid-1931!