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your first 747.5cc side-valve - andrew34ruby - 15-12-2018
While it is too cold to be out in the garage -- a bit of fun. How old were you when you bought your first 747.5cc side-valve?
RE: your first 747.5cc side-valve - cardiffrob - 15-12-2018
47. Bought an entire shed-full. Still have loads of ratty crankcases, some worn-out blocks and some heads. Probably not enough good bits to make 2 good engines. Not sure what to do with them.
RE: your first 747.5cc side-valve - Tony Press - 15-12-2018
(15-12-2018, 01:37 AM)andrew34ruby Wrote: While it is too cold to be out in the garage -- a bit of fun. How old were you when you bought your first 747.5cc side-valve?
If memory serves, about 17 years old when I bought a 1929 Austin Seven 'coach' that had been converted to a utility with a wooden tray behind a steel cab.
This is not me but two owners and some years later - rather more battered than when I first found it.
RE: your first 747.5cc side-valve - Ruairidh Dunford - 15-12-2018
I was 15 - the car came from John Fitch and is still in my ownership 30 years later.
RE: your first 747.5cc side-valve - Stuart Joseph - 15-12-2018
Morning all. It was 1964 and I was 14 when my father bought me an incomplete 'Super Accessories' special to divert my attention from motor-cycles.
I completed the build and drove it until 1969 when I went off to college and it was swapped for a Vauxhall estate car. The special which was christened 'Coughing Connie' by my then girlfriend still exists in store at a local garage in company with a Mk 1 Pearl.
Regards from the creative county - Staffordshire
Stuart
RE: your first 747.5cc side-valve - andrew34ruby - 15-12-2018
I was 15 when I bought this in 1969. Only had it a couple of years, but went to visit it last summer.
I was 32 before I bought a seven.
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RE: your first 747.5cc side-valve - Derek Sheldon - 15-12-2018
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Not unlike mine in 1995 after 10 years of hard work. Mind you I did build a special and bought an NOT Opal in that time
RE: your first 747.5cc side-valve - Martin Prior - 15-12-2018
My brother and I were 13 and 14 respectively when in 1973 we blew £75 of our combined saving on AOV 816. Where is it now?
RE: your first 747.5cc side-valve - Roger Goldthorpe - 15-12-2018
I’m a late starter. 72 years old when I bought my RP.
Need to keep going a few more years to catch up with you early starters!
Roger
RE: your first 747.5cc side-valve - Mike Costigan - 15-12-2018
17 when I bought my NOT Opal: