+- Austinsevenfriends (https://www.austinsevenfriends.co.uk/forum)
+-- Forum: Austin Seven Friends Forum (https://www.austinsevenfriends.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: Forum chat... (https://www.austinsevenfriends.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=14)
+--- Thread: Axle tramp (/showthread.php?tid=5668)
Axle tramp - Tony Griffiths - 13-02-2021
Axle tramp - it's always been with us...
RE: Axle tramp - Bob Culver - 13-02-2021
Perhaps someone can locate and publish the account of a stage show based on this feature of Sevens. i recall watching a young university student learning to drive in a Seven in the early 60s. The car was hopping just as the stage showman described as his inspiration. Little wonder the axle keys are so often distorted.
RE: Axle tramp - Mike Costigan - 13-02-2021
That was Darling I love you with George Clarke, at the Gaiety Theatre in, I think, 1930.
RE: Axle tramp - Tony Griffiths - 13-02-2021
Here you are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bimTqdrknI
and the background to the stage act (it was covered in an earlier post) https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1963/46/that-stage-austin7
RE: Axle tramp - Mike Costigan - 13-02-2021
That looks remarkably like Tony Griffiths performing in a VSCC driving test
RE: Axle tramp - Steve kay - 13-02-2021
Looks like almost any of us doing one of the reverse bits at Madresfield.
RE: Axle tramp - Chris Garner - 13-02-2021
750 MC Walton Hall Hotel, Wellsbourne, BBC Top Gear Rally. 31st May 1982. Presenter, William Woollard ( remember him?!)
Fifty one representative Sevens from 1923 thro' to 1938.
Two Nippys and one 65, and I've no idea which, but at an informal driving test which involved driving in reverse into a " garage " one of these cars exhibited the most violent axle tramp I've ever seen in a Seven, the car leaping off the ground. Woollard and many others couldn't believe it.
Anyone remember it?