What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Bob Culver]

Thanks AGW
I confess i am not fully up to date but when the current extreme regulations came in years ago it was claimed that brazing repairs were not allowed. The wording would seem to suggest only where the OEM used in the area. It is now dated but once standard Australasian text on body repairs by author Donald Waite emphasised the strength of brazing and advocated its use for pull plates etc.
Others may be curious to learn that in NZ we have a very extreme wof regime with incredibly low tolerance of rust. It was introduced to enable low skilled inspectors experienced on ox carts to avoid questioning and conflict. At the time we were told it was necessary to meet world standards, notably UK. Yet we see no TV old cars in UK corroded to an extent where they could never at any stage here in the last 30 years remained on the road. Rusted Sevens and the like are cars which have not been used for 30 years, or skillfully bogged years ago.
The Jowett Javelin car has a box section integral chassis with wooden floor. The rear seat area has complex structure to contain the torsion bars and some  of the original assembly is brazed.Tthe golden rule here is to fix or disguise rust before a wof. Even a competent repair has to be disguised otherwise up for certified reapirs even for window surrounds, gutter rails etc.