1961 Austin Se7en

[Daz1968]

Very nice, just the job of putting all back together next

[Nick W]

Looks a great job! Its amazing how many of the 59/60 cars have survived so well

[AustinSe7en]

Very nice, just the job of putting all back together next

Hmmm yes.....now where are all those bits

[AustinSe7en]

Looks a great job! Its amazing how many of the 59/60 cars have survived so well

To be fair, it’s lead a bit of a sheltered life!
I got it in the late 80’s from a little old lady, local car with only about 24,000 miles on it.
Drove it maybe a year, then did the engine swap on it. Only put about 7,500 miles
on it, then it got parked up for a year or two. Then did a quick colour change with all intentions of getting it back on the road but never did, and it sat in the garage for 30 years!!
Can’t wait the put it all back together now!!
Only lost a couple of bits in all that time, and gradually managing to find or buy what’s missing.
Where would we be with “the EBay”??!!

[AustinSe7en]

Instrument binnacle missing two “ears”,so a bit of a repair needed. Seems to be made of hardboard???

[AustinSe7en]

Amazing that it has survived this long!

[AustinSe7en]

Then primed along with the switch panel for a bit of paint, along with to contents of the box

[AustinSe7en]

New steels were already OEW, but the finish wasn’t that great and at least this way they match the roof properly!

[AustinSe7en]

Speedo binnacle and switch panel to match.

[AustinSe7en]

Bonnet, boot and doors now in colour.
Just the hinges and a couple of bits & pieces left to do.

[AndyB72]

Nice work on the binnacle.

[AustinSe7en]

Nice work on the binnacle.

Thanks Andy
Trying to retain & restore as many of its early features as I can!
Just amazed that it has survived all these years, made of what looks like hardboard!!

[AustinSe7en]

Time to start putting stuff back together!
Loads of great info on this forum, so I have carried out the radius arm shaft modifications before building up the rear subframe assembly.

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These are the original Minifins I had on it back in the eighties! Cleaned up nice, just hope they are OK

[kevs 1961 mk1]

nice work gonna look amazing when its all back together

[roymck]

Are the braided hoses off the shelf ? Shown us more is it a banjo bolt into the cylinder ?

[AustinSe7en]

Mechanism reassembled and the new bits from Newton’s loaded up to be dropped over to the trimmer. He is a busy bee, so could be a couple of weeks before I see the end results!

Popped in to see the trimmer last week to see how the seats were coming on. He has been busy, but managed to unpick the base cover and template the panels for replacement. The piping was too badly distorted to be used as it was, can’t match the colour, so he has unpicked the piping to replace the cord!!! Which it seems was made of compressed paper! Clever boy, can’t wait to see the end result

[AustinSe7en]

Were the braided hoses off the shelf ? Shown us more is it a banjo bolt into the cylinder ?

Goodridge hoses off the shelf from Minispares. Only thing extra I did was use a washer each side of the subframe(one with a flat filed)as the brake pipe connection shoulder end is a smaller spanner size.

[AustinSe7en]

Got the rear seats down out of the rafters!
Dirty but don’t look too bad.

[AustinSe7en]

Cleaned up really well.
The base foam and squab horse hair have both seen better days, they would be good enough to go back in, but I doubt they would give much support for the occupants!
Plus there is a bit of a tear in the red of the base.
Luckily I bought enough of the Spanish Red for the front seat repairs, so I will drop these over to the trimmer when I collect the front seats tomorrow......
Can’t wait to see how they look now!!

[AustinSe7en]

Also dug out the side window while I was up there.