What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Tony Griffiths]

Hi Tony

Glad you have your old car back.

In the first pic by Mike it does look as though It has a bowed front axle.  Are my eyes deceiving me again?

Cheers

Howard

That was probably an emergency substitute from Tony's Type 65; anything went to keep things going. I seem to recall at one time we had a communal front axle assembly that was only available for MOT use!

Yes, it was just an odd spare, probably replaced as a temporary measure after some wibbly-wobbly on the original. The rest of the suspension was standard, only the axle was bowed.

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Anyway I was then told that steel cans are illegal and only green plastic 5 Lt jobs are allowed.

Checking the HSE site steel cans are legal if correctly marked.  In fact you can safely fill 10 litres in a steel can but only 5 in a plastic one.

I believe that the limit on fuel stored in a garage has been increased - but how about storing outside? Presumably, there is no limit and I have a 45-gallon tank against the rear wall once used a store for compressed air. A chap I knew was very naughty. He bought a house with oil-fired central heating - and guess where the fuel ended up. Mind you, Stand Waine the farmer opposite (now departed so they can't get to him) managed, somehow, to tap into the gas main and had free heating for eight years. Very, very naughty indeed.