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Author: Subject: Very cool Austin 7...
coozer

posted on 2/10/11 at 12:54 PM Reply With Quote
Very cool Austin 7...

Talked about this at last nights curry fest...



Very cool...


Thanks to slingshot2000

[Edited on 2/10/11 by coozer]





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coozer

posted on 2/10/11 at 12:58 PM Reply With Quote
And heres another just for the hell of it, and cause I really like them







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r1_pete

posted on 2/10/11 at 01:00 PM Reply With Quote
That is cool but I still dont like these matt and satin finishes, but Iwas rodding in the 70s and stll like flames
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gottabedone

posted on 2/10/11 at 01:09 PM Reply With Quote
Very Nice - especially if someone is trying to decide what body to put on their locost chassis..........saves worrying about weather gear as well

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Macbeast

posted on 2/10/11 at 01:21 PM Reply With Quote
The wheels on that first one are completely wrong. ( IMHO of course :-) )





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mookaloid

posted on 2/10/11 at 01:31 PM Reply With Quote
I like the second one but not too keen on the black one.
Is it a locost chassis with a Seven body stuck on it?





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Guinness

posted on 2/10/11 at 01:46 PM Reply With Quote
I really like the idea of a re body for the Indy using the matt black one as inspiration.
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slingshot2000

posted on 2/10/11 at 02:04 PM Reply With Quote
Well done Coozer, that matt black one is exactly the one I tried to post last week !
I really, really like it, a 7x7 but mush more user friendly. No wet weather gear required and some where to put the shopping!
I have been searching the web for Austin 7 bits since I saw that last week!

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Jon

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steve m

posted on 2/10/11 at 02:04 PM Reply With Quote
+1
The first one is awfull style colour and those wheels!
second one is very nice. period looking car

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zilspeed

posted on 2/10/11 at 02:34 PM Reply With Quote
I'm in the like it camp for the first car.

Like a concept sports car version of an Austin 7 for the modern day.

I could see me liking such a thing, no problems.






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Confused but excited.

posted on 2/10/11 at 02:58 PM Reply With Quote
Well I like 'em both.
The first one for the weather protection element and the second one because I love that type of old car.





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Ivan

posted on 2/10/11 at 04:29 PM Reply With Quote
Love them both - don't have a problem with the wheels either.
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mistergrumpy

posted on 2/10/11 at 04:31 PM Reply With Quote
I really like the Austin too. I saw it sometime last week too but I can't think where. Maybe PH or Custom Car mag.
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cs3tcr

posted on 2/10/11 at 05:21 PM Reply With Quote
I've wanted to build one just like the second one, but finding Austin 7 bits over here is next to impossible. Had thought about just scratch building one, but then it would lack any Austin bits.

The first one i'm starting to like more and more, but i do agree, the wheels dont seem to do it for me.

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skydivepaul

posted on 2/10/11 at 05:24 PM Reply With Quote
Austin 7s are great
+1 for both cars
bet the first one is more fun to drive





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beaver34

posted on 2/10/11 at 05:37 PM Reply With Quote
Look great, the first one how hard or expnsive would it be to fit a body like that to a seven type?
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kendo

posted on 2/10/11 at 06:18 PM Reply With Quote
I like both. Not sure about the matt / satin black but it looks well executed. Like the westfield front arches etc.

The green one is ace too.

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iank

posted on 2/10/11 at 06:47 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by beaver34
Look great, the first one how hard or expnsive would it be to fit a body like that to a seven type?


If you can solve the problem of the doors then it's not too bad if they are close in wheelbase.





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gottabedone

posted on 2/10/11 at 07:09 PM Reply With Quote
To be honest, the doors aren't too much of an issue. If you hinge them outside your locost frame, you retain the strength and as for getting in, it's not too much harder than climbing over door bars on a cage.

You get both looks and strength.

Steve

[Edited on 2/10/11 by gottabedone]

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slingshot2000

posted on 2/10/11 at 07:26 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by beaver34
Look great, the first one how hard or expnsive would it be to fit a body like that to a seven type?


Fitting it would not be the problem, finding an Austin 7 bodyshell would be. Trust me, since seeing the pic of the black one last week I have looked everywhere. You are talking about preWW11 parts, thay aint easy to find OR locost!

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Jon

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slingshot2000

posted on 2/10/11 at 07:28 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by iank
quote:
Originally posted by beaver34
Look great, the first one how hard or expnsive would it be to fit a body like that to a seven type?


If you can solve the problem of the doors then it's not too bad if they are close in wheelbase.


This is the whole point, they are nowhere near the same wheelbase. The only parts of the Austin 7 body shell used are the radiator grill and from the scuttle back over. The long nose btween the rad shell and the scuttle are where the locost 7 chassis fits in.

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Jon

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dave

posted on 17/10/11 at 03:36 PM Reply With Quote
Anymore pics or details on the first car, has it been built on an adapted 7 chassis.






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David Jenkins

posted on 17/10/11 at 03:46 PM Reply With Quote
I must admit that I don't like that Austin 7 - the proportions are all wrong (bonnet far too long for the rest of it). It just looks all out of shape.

I'd love to have a drive in that green thing though!






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HowardB

posted on 17/10/11 at 03:51 PM Reply With Quote
is the second one an Ulster Special

picture of an Ulster Special

If so it would be awesome





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nick205

posted on 17/10/11 at 04:18 PM Reply With Quote
This is a favourite of mine (currently living in the National Motor Museum @ Beaulieu)



Really like both the cars at the top, for differing reasons.






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