Just a taste of conditions at the Austin Sevens - Back to the Track day at Curborough today.

Thanks go to organisers Charlie & Janine Plain-Jones, marshals, competitors and spectators. A great turn out and a great day.

Chris

I received a note from a friend that there was to be an sale of vintage parts (Including some Austin seven) at Sewell Manor. As I am in western Canada I will not be there. The sale includes some Austin parts including bodies, wheels ,axels, and many more. The viewing starts on 19th March and the sale is on Friday 23 March.

Hopefully someone can help me on a problem with my 1931 American Austin. My motor which is a mirror image of your Austin Seven has destroyed the fiber gear on the distributor.  The timing gears are now also heavily worn. I have tracked the problem down to the camshaft moving forward and backward. Travel is between a 16th and an 8th of an inch. Can anyone advise me what can be done to get the camshaft to stay in position?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks:  Arnie

8X42 crown wheel and pinion for sale, used but serviceable, pinion shaft 22.125" long with 1" journal at pinion end and .875" journal at taper end. Pictures available. £150 collected Cambridge, or carriage extra. Robert Leigh 01954 251698 lordshipvilla@hotmail.co.uk

Hi am new here looking for hepolite piston 7665 +060 for my 39 AP Tourer .The engine was "stuck" and one piston did not like the stout wood and sledgehammer treatment resulting in "piston broke" If anyone has a lonely piston or indeed a set please get in touch .I have cleaned the light rust from the bored and they are good with no scores or ridges .PEP pistons would be ideal .Live in hope ,cheers Ally

Date: 15-03-2018

Cotswold Festival of Motoring 12/08/2018

Dear All

We are hoping to create an Austin 7 All Star Line-up at the Cotswold Festival of Motoring on the 12th of August. We are trying to gather as many different and interesting types as is possible. We currently have a swallow saloon, a scoop scuttle, and a boat tail in the line-up but would love also to get as many other interesting cars as possible including a van,  a single seater, a gordon England,a special, a top hat and anything else people might recommend. I would also appreciate any advice on what I should look to include to get a really interesting line up. We might also even get “Brum” the childrens tv car as it resides along with quite a number of real Austin 7s at the motor museum un the village. Might you possibly ask your members is if any of them live in the North Cotswold vicinity or might fancy a weekend in the Cotswolds. If would have been fun to combine with a light car rally of the vicinity on the Saturday but I doubt whether my organisation skills would stretch that far this year! Many thanks for your help and we look forward to hearing from you. 

http://cotswoldfestivalofmotoring.org/gallery-of-exhibits/

Best wishes Kirsten Ng

Any sensible views on why there seams to be so little original austin advertising surviving.

There seams to be plenty of paperwork / catalogues. Pre-war and vintage.

But not much signage etc. Especially pre-war.

We're as there seams to be plenty of morris??

Thanks Tony.

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Hi guys,

I've got a '38 Chassis in my garage (single birth and in need of much reorganising before I can actually do anything with it!).
I'm planning on making it into a special (super accessories 750 body) and had read somewhere that
one option for seating is to use the back bench seat from an original Mini.
Is this true; and if so is any modification required to fit them?

Cheers,
David

Hello ,new on here ,having a 1929 Austin Seven Spanish bodied van which I am trying to restore ,riddled with woodworm which are long gone so am renewing the bits that matter.Having done all the mechanicals,stub pins,wheel bearings ,track rod ends etc, I started Bella up for the first time in over a year and she was running nicely until the cooling fan at the pillar decided to come loose with the spindle and lodge itself in the radiator .Do not know what parts I will require as yet as Bella is now in my back garden with a cover over her until I get the enthusiasm to work on her again  cheers Ally

I took the engine out of my '34 tourer in order to sort out the horrendous oil leaks, and to check it because it came with the car with no history.

With the crank in its bearings in the crankcase, flywheel on, the was a very small but perceptible movement in the rear main.   What I would expect, I think.

On spinning the crank, there was a recurring noise on every revolution.  A heavy "click" or a light "clunk".

So I have pulled the rear main outer out.    There is no perceptible roughness or end float in the front mains.

On spinning the crank, the rear end has a pronounced wobble, which I guess was producing the noise inside the rear main, as the inner moved from side to side in the outer.

This must impose a bending movement on the crank.   It cannot be good, but is it normal?

Crank and case are marked 191580, it isn't the original engine, but isn't far off it, and is the correct rubber mounted high frame crankcase.

Any thoughts welcome.

Thanks

Simon