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And also that everyone is so POLITE in the Austin Seven world...
Happy Easter.
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Well, it depends when it was done - The Coinage Offences Act (1936) was repealed in 1981.
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I love the idea of someone being appalled by the price of washers and making their own from coins. An advantage in not rusting? We're now so used to decent plating or stainless steel items being available.
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I wouldn't have minded if the previous owner had put the money towards having the engine rebored. In what must have been a case of hope over experience, they fitted new standard pistons to badly worn bores. The result was the engine would start and tick over beautifully but lacked enough power to move along at anything more than walking pace. In an attempt to hide the problem they had removed the clutch pedal!
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When I fixing up my car in 1999, an old guy across the road called Cecil offered various advice. One thing he suggested was to use an old penny instead of a replacement core plug on the front of the block. He said they used to do this because the core plugs cost 2d, so it saved them 1d. I used a 1917 penny and it was in for many years - but eventually changed it for a normal core plug when I noticed it was leaking a bit.
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