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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Chris KC - 26-08-2019

Don't get me started Tony! We almost paid 8 bucks to walk around the Mayflower till we learned it was built in 1958.
As for the ghost train rides around Salem...(buries head in hands).

Best thing we found to do in Boston was whale watching, it took 2 attempts (turned back by bad weather) but they were awesome to see.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Betts - 26-08-2019

Hi KC,

The Baltimore docks are good.

There are four small tours you can take, I took two.

The first, a Second World War submarine still in the water. Well chuffed with that.

But the old slave trade ship / come tea clipper, had FIBREGLASS cannons???

Or worst of all, try Philadelphia.

Betty what's here name, who made the first usa flag, there is a plaque on the door of her house that says although they don't actually know we're she lived. This was THOUGHT TO BE her house, we didn't bother.

The liberty bell is on its third casting. ??? What's all that about.

Try running up the steps of the museum, and pretend to be rocky at the top. PRICELESS.

There are many more.

But Americas more modern day history is still the best.

Tony

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - John Mason - 27-08-2019

Tony you will find that as you go further west there is even less history as the country was not settled until the mid 1800s. In Calafornia however you can find churches built by the Spanish when they colonised it.

John Mason

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Charles P - 27-08-2019

(26-08-2019, 07:16 PM)Tony Betts Wrote: Hi K C,

I've recorded on here before, about American history.

We to visited Boston around 12 years ago, and very disapointed with the so called old houses.

We done like everyone else, and visited the frank revere house. To find it was all restored. On top of what little original was left. Wilst walking around I asked with house being restored is the furniture original to the house or added to give effect. Answer NO SIR it's all what was THOUGHT TO BE in this age of house in the day.

Thee is a showcase outside the house, everything has on it THOUGHT TO BE the type of items made in frank reveres foundry.

I find older Americans feel they need to point out there oldest THOUGHT TO BE history.

We're as in reality there best history is much more modern, CHEERS bar. Fantastic.

This year we start at dallas Wink

Tony


If you want real, proper "history" in Boston go and see the Red Sox at Fenway Park. 
The rest is tourist stuff. Plymouth Rock - oh come on!

Charles

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Chris KC - 27-08-2019

My aunt - resident since 1960 - always maintained that the Blaschka collection is Boston's 'hidden gem' - 4300 plant specimens reproduced astonishingly accurately in glass as teaching aids for Harvard University's Botanical Museum. Nothing like it anywhere else.

(n.b. She also delights in correcting tour guides telling the Paul Revere yarn - he did not shout 'the British are coming' - at that time the colonists to all intents and purposes were the British!)

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Chris Garner - 27-08-2019

    Grimsthorpe Castle Speed Trials, Lincs. last Saturday.
Lots of Sevens, owners and spectators, having a great day out.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Betts - 27-08-2019

Hi charles / KC, 

Must admit, not a real big on Americas so called history. Find the more modern stuff more fun.

Looking forward to pikes peek this year though, now that's a hill climb?

Don't know if you've ever been.

Tony.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Phil Kingdom - 27-08-2019

Don't be to disappointed about the fibreglass cannons Tony, even HMS Victory has them. I was told they were installed to relive the decks and hull of excessive weight. HMS Victory had 104 guns at say an average of 5 tons each that a saving of over 500 tons or about a seventh of the ships total displacement weight.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Bob Culver - 28-08-2019

One of the things which bemused about England was the cannon littered seemingly everywhere!

For anyone from the area and curious the place I visited was Ringmore poised above scenic cliffs, and the minor "road" entered in the dark branched off opposite Aveton Gifford. And having driven the relatives over backroads here (Whangaehu valley) they drove me the long way Modbury, Kingston, Ringmore, and much else.

It was curious to visit villages not hugely changed from when my grand parents were young (19th century) with the same churches  and many other buildings. (Even an ex poor house.) Here many small rural settlements with their wooden structures  have almost or totally disappeared. I have several times a year for 50 years tripped up and down the North Island often hunting out backroads, and many settlements and rail stops have faded in that time.

Of especial interest at Portsmouth was the pulley block making machinery, amongst the very earliest production machinery.
Much of the Victory was closed off. I explained I had come a long way (not to mention paid a ransom for parking) to see it and the sour guide nearly kicked this pesky colonial off for complaining! However the obliging and knowledgeable guide on the Warrior fully compensated.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - AllAlloyCup - 29-08-2019


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Covering a new Cup!

I spent a pleasant couple of hours helping Neil
fix the first section of Mulberry Fabric on
The tail of his GE Cup Special, based on a lwb chassis .

Armed with an electric staple gun and a hot air gun we
made steady progress stretching and stapling.

Neil has picked a really smart fabric and the colour looks
very”period” I think.

Still to tackle the very tricky tail ....

Thanks to Neil for all the cups of tea! And
for helping solder my petrol tank again!

Regards 

Bill G