13-02-2020, 01:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-02-2020, 03:47 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
Indeed. The idea of showing these images is purely for the enjoyment of the asthetics.
Heavily art-worked pictures such as these are of no help whatsoever vis a via originality (the colour of the rear window surround and the coachlining was covered in a previous post). In many cases, when a model was updated, the publicity department didn't even bother to photograph the differences - they allowed the studio to paint them in - leading, of course, to lots of wonderful confusion for those who took the new pictures as gospel.
For something on the window surrounds, see the bottom of this page: https://www.austinsevenfriends.co.uk/for...9#pid39959
50 years ago we thought that there was nothing new to be discovered about the Austin Seven; how wrong we were. Even during the rebuild of an early Ruby this year, a restorer with decades of experience found, to his astonishment, a number of previously undiscovered features and fittings.
Heavily art-worked pictures such as these are of no help whatsoever vis a via originality (the colour of the rear window surround and the coachlining was covered in a previous post). In many cases, when a model was updated, the publicity department didn't even bother to photograph the differences - they allowed the studio to paint them in - leading, of course, to lots of wonderful confusion for those who took the new pictures as gospel.
For something on the window surrounds, see the bottom of this page: https://www.austinsevenfriends.co.uk/for...9#pid39959
50 years ago we thought that there was nothing new to be discovered about the Austin Seven; how wrong we were. Even during the rebuild of an early Ruby this year, a restorer with decades of experience found, to his astonishment, a number of previously undiscovered features and fittings.