Austin 7, I guess!!

[maccboy]

[Astacus]

Austin seven Ulster (rep) No? Lovely little car

[RonnieH]

Hardly a replica, more of a home brew.
But yeh , an Austin 7. .

[Skyedriver]

Quite a few at the Harewood Classic Hillclimb on Saturday
Lovely to se them being driven with spirit.
Wonder what they are like to live with on a regular basis?
Cannot imagine they keep up with modern traffic.
Some of them look like they would be dwarfed by a Caterham.

[rolymo]

Similar to an Austin 7 special I built during my apprenticship at the AUSTIN Motor Co back in the mid 50's, went like stink up to 60mph ,that was it, pedal to metal, but it sure was fun. Cars like that were very popular at that time with us teenagers.

[V8A*ndy]

The wife snapped this on Sunday in Dublin.



I grew up in the village where part of the Ards TT took place. If only we still had something like this today even a vintage run.

Found an interesting page on this just today http://www.derek-beattie.comxa.com/ards-tt-03.htm

[cptsideways]

My Dad built one just like this, an Austin Seven Special back in the 50's, we are still trying to find it.... last seen in the 80's up for sale.

[austin]

It's an Austin 7 special, telescopic dampers and other "modern" stuff on there. Not sure I would want to drive it in the dark with the headlights like that though!

Ulsters, (and Ulster replicas) are much better looking IMHO, I'm a bit biased because I have one.

It will quite happily keep up with modern traffic up until about 70, but it's so small that I wouldn't want to go on the motorway in it anyway.

[rolymo]

This is another Austin 7 special I had for a short time in the 60's which was more suited to going off-road in motor trials we called :- mud-plugging ! gave up on this sport because I did not like the taste of mud in my teeth

[Skyedriver]

V8A*ndy said:

Lovely proportions on that car.
What price an A7 special now I wonder

[austin]

Skyedriver said:

Lovely proportions on that car.
What price an A7 special now I wonder

Anywhere from about £3k to about £20k for a VERY nice Ulster replica.

[RonnieH]

rolymo said:

This is another Austin 7 special I had for a short time in the 60's which was more suited to going off-road in motor trials we called :- mud-plugging ! gave up on this sport because I did not like the taste of mud in my teeth

I hate to question you, but are you sure that's not a Dellow?? It looks ford pop based to me . .

[RonnieH]

rolymo said:

This is another Austin 7 special I had for a short time in the 60's which was more suited to going off-road in motor trials we called :- mud-plugging ! gave up on this sport because I did not like the taste of mud in my teeth

I hate to question you, but are you sure that's not a Dellow?? It looks ford pop based to me . .

[rolymo]

I am absolutely sure that is "not" a Dellow . The product of the talent of two pals :- Ron DELingpole and Alan LOWe(get-it DELLOW?) built in Radpanels bodyshop at TBC buildings, Kidderminster. I lived just down the street and practically lived in that shop when I was a kid.In fact their bodyman Mr Bill Spragg helped me build my own Ford 10 special in a similar style. but this Austin 7 trials car was several years later

[RonnieH]

Fair enough, I've never seen an A7 with ford wheels, or built in quite that style . . .

[rolymo]

We were quite ingenious back in those days,we would make "specials" out of anything that moved, we only had HMG (ministry of trans) construction & use regulations to contend with(which were mainly common sense)not all this current EU red tape with several volumes of Gobbledy-gook, arm & a leg in testing fees with weeks of frustration. Life was simple :- build it, pay approx £12 (a year tax)and get out there and enjoy. What I call an Austin 7 is probably a conglomeration of modified components.I often used LMB(Bellemy)IFS(ford based)with Girling brakes Etc. From memory (lost numerous records in a house flood)the engine could not exceed 750cc to meet competition regs so we were stuck with the A7 motor.I do believe that the wheels were actually Austin Big seven originally. Photo :- Ford 10 (1172cc)side valve special built around early 60's by self and Bill from Dellow.