7th Sep, 2024 11:00
Classic Cars, Vehicles & Automobilia
7
1928 Austin Seven Chummy, owned for 64 years
1928 Austin 7 Model AC Chummy, Registration VW 6305 (being applied for), Owned since 1963.
This charming 'oily rag' Vintage Austin 7 tourer with its correct higher nickel plated radiator and wing mounted lights was bought by the vendor in winter 1963 from Snape in Suffolk with a collapsed hood, full of snow and with flat tyres. He trailered it home and got it running and then put it on blocks in a dry barn where it has remained for many years in slumber. According to a previous owner (1954 to 1960, £25 paid) it appeared in a photo in "The Autocar" in 1954. During his retirement the owner's attention returned to the little Chummy and in 2017 a programme of restoration started. This included an engine strip and light overhaul, magneto and starter motor overhaul , new clutch, brakes re-lined, new springs, significant body work to the tub, new rear wings and running boards, repaired hood frame, re painting as "in period" by hand, re-wiring etc. Most of this work was carried out by Lee Scott Classic Car Services with bills totalling over £7.500. Work to be still completed includes interior re-trim (seat frames and old trim patterns included), new hood canvas and side screens (frames included) and other minor fettling consistent with finishing off a restoration project. We are informed the car runs and moves under its own power and is supplied with a history file and many spare parts needed to finish the project. A rare opportunity to buy a low ownership Chummy project with most of the hard work already done. The registration VW 6305 is currently not registered with the DVLA, however, the car does have an original buff log book stating that this its number and with help from the Austin 7 Club, we are fairly confident it will be reunited with the car by application to the DVLA, although this cannot be guaranteed. (Subject to 12% buyers' premium inclusive of VAT).
Sold for £5,000
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Auction: Classic Cars, Vehicles & Automobilia, 7th Sep, 2024
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