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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:06 am Post subject: Vintage Austin 12/4 basket case |
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Morning all,
This 1929 Austin certainly needs everything doing to it, especially if it were to remain as a saloon. How viable it'd be to restore it to original I'm not sure - most of the wooden framing appears to be present, although inevitably most if not all of it would end up being replaced.
Perhaps a new life fitted with a replacement tourer body, or maybe re-invented as a dropside truck, is a more realistic option for this aged survivor? Would such a conversion be heresy?
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 11:56 am Post subject: |
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Being a fabric body I'd have thought that would open up restoration in original form to a wider market of restorers.
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PAUL BEAUMONT
Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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Its rather sweet isn't it and fairly unusual to my knowledge. I reckon though that it is a tad expensive, unless the engine or something is valuable for something else |
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mikeC
Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1775 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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PAUL BEAUMONT wrote: | ... I reckon though that it is a tad expensive... |
My feelings exactly!
But there is probably no more work in this than in an apparently better car; with a fabric body it needs stripping back to the bare essentials, and on this one nature has already done the job _________________ in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on! |
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