Another mystery car
Discussion
alfgarnett said:
The car was built between 1961 and 1962. I was built very quickly I hasten to add, by a guy called Clive Bowers.
The story of the car’s origin stems from their obsession with the RAF. In those days you couldn’t just buy a private registration number off the internet, so when Clive’s dad saw a virtually worthless old car for sale with the registration number RAF 33, he bought it. It was a decrepit Ford 7Y, which was subsequently parked up somewhere at the family home, which was a smallholding, hence no shortage of space and pretty much forgotten about.
A bigger help may be the registration number of the car, which was definitely RAF 33 and would have shown up as a Ford.
Wonderful, thanks for posting.....The story of the car’s origin stems from their obsession with the RAF. In those days you couldn’t just buy a private registration number off the internet, so when Clive’s dad saw a virtually worthless old car for sale with the registration number RAF 33, he bought it. It was a decrepit Ford 7Y, which was subsequently parked up somewhere at the family home, which was a smallholding, hence no shortage of space and pretty much forgotten about.
A bigger help may be the registration number of the car, which was definitely RAF 33 and would have shown up as a Ford.
[quote=Lily the Pink]
According to Wikipedia it's 78".
And the front screen certainly looks like the rear from a Metropolitan.[/quote
On this rare occasion Wikipedia is wrong.
All the small side valve Fords were either 90" or 94" wheelbase. The 7Y Eight became the E93A Anglia and then the 103E Popular, all on basically the same chassis with 90" wheelbase.
According to Wikipedia it's 78".
And the front screen certainly looks like the rear from a Metropolitan.[/quote
On this rare occasion Wikipedia is wrong.
All the small side valve Fords were either 90" or 94" wheelbase. The 7Y Eight became the E93A Anglia and then the 103E Popular, all on basically the same chassis with 90" wheelbase.
- could spend the rest of eternity hunting through old out buildings around here though...
Blimey I'm stunned!
I'm just hoping that Alf Garnett is not some kind of troll. Seems like quite a long time between joining on the 5th of May and posting today, but apparently an older gentleman and not that internet savvy, so maybe explicable.
This needs to be tracked down if it still exists!
I'm just hoping that Alf Garnett is not some kind of troll. Seems like quite a long time between joining on the 5th of May and posting today, but apparently an older gentleman and not that internet savvy, so maybe explicable.
This needs to be tracked down if it still exists!
Yertis said:
Did anyone say 'Nash Metropolitan Rear Screen" in all the screen deliberations?
A certain someone was so convinced it was a rear screen from a Minx that they bought one online ...Let's hope Alf is kosher, that's all I'll say. I want him to be. Does everything else stack up? The low bonnet etc. What's the rear screen off? Can someone just 'build gullwing doors' that work? If you've got a background in aluminium shaping ten you probably can, but it was assembled quickly - this would still have taken a fair while I would have thought. Depends on the definition of 'quickly'.
All you Dorset PHers ... draw a five-mile radius around Bournemouth, divide into squares and give each of you a certain number - we'll have it found by the weekend!
Due diligence, etc, but I think dimensionally it would stack up IF the wheelbase is 90 inches - so we have to ask why the super-accurate computer scaling gives the wheebase as 78 inches.
If anyone is seriously interested in looking perhaps Alf would be prepared to give a few clues to the location off-forum.
If anyone is seriously interested in looking perhaps Alf would be prepared to give a few clues to the location off-forum.
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