What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Ivor Hawkins]

After cleaning up the valves, and building a new choke cable which actually works, fired the car up and I’m still suffering a sticking valve...after a couple of minutes it frees itself up and after that the motor runs fine, so went for a blast...the oil pressure is up against the stop when the motor is cold but after a couple of miles settles down to between 5 and 7 psi, ticking over at about 2 psi, so I’m going to put some more miles on the old bus and see if using it every day frees things up.

Even after all these years, I still love driving a Seven.