If you were to buy an Austin Seven today - what would you look for?

[Dave Mann]

I like getting a wreck and getting it going again. In 1962 a month or so after I was given a dismantled RN which had stood outside for a couple of years I found another RN. The body had suffered from it's rapid descent into a farmer's tip, an old clay pit he was filling, but that didn't stop me stripping it of everything off the body, leaving a bare wrecked body shell. In 1998 I spotted an advert for an RN body, after a month of pontificating ( I was in the process of rebuilding an RN) I phoned up to find I was the first to enquire about it and ended up buying an almost pristine bare body shell and ended up with a full garage while I rebuilt two RNs. The collection of bits included a windscreen with tax disc which enabled me to recover the registration number and the car took to the road in 2001.