1961 Austin Se7en

[jay weinstein]

Car looks great....
I'm just being curious but is the green and white paint
original to the red and grey interior ?
I read in one of your early posts that you did a color change years ago.

Curious Jay

[AustinSe7en]

Car looks great....
I'm just being curious but is the green and white paint
original to the red and grey interior ?
I read in one of your early posts that you did a color change years ago.

Curious Jay

Thanks Curious Jay!
Don’t know what colours might have been with the Almond Green,
but this car was originally Farina Grey.
Dad chose this colour when it was last “tarted-up” as that was the colour of his Cooper back in the day.
I’m in the fortunate position where I could have painted it any colour I like. But after much contemplation I decided that I only really had two choices, back to the original Farina Grey for originality, or the colour my Father had chosen.....
I stuck with Dads choice as it really suits the car, and Farina Grey just reminds me of primer!
Although in hindsight, Farina Grey with a Black roof might have looked good ..........too late now though

[AustinSe7en]

Spent Saturday checking everything was tight underneath.
Bit of a wipe over (or under!) and gave it a ceramic coating underneath and under the arches. Hoping it might make it easier to clean me undercarriage if I end up that way inclined

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[AustinSe7en]

The bit I didn’t enjoy - putting the arch trim moulding on
And the bit I was looking forward to - Steelies on

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[AustinSe7en]

Check over in the engine bay, and a tidy up of the loom, cables and pipes.
Then a bit of final flatting and polishing before the bonnet goes on.

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[AustinSe7en]

Couple of odds and sods left to do inside still, but I had decided that Saturday was the day for its first road test.
Car delivered to the previous owner 19th April 1961 ,according to my heritage certificate, and now back on the road 60 years later!
It’s 20 miles to home so it was fingers crossed.......

[AustinSe7en]

Lovely drive home, with no problems

[jay weinstein]

Congratulations !!!

[Old English White]

Excellent! It looks SO much better with those steel wheels on Very much a 1960s "period" look!

[InnoCooperExport]

That looks excellent. I'd love an Almond Green Mk1 with a cream roof. Just something very right about that combo and yours looks brilliant.

[Peter Laidler]

Morning Se7en. 2nd photo down......thinking on my feet, haven't you got the brake pressure valve plumbed in wrongly? Happy to be corrected but I'm sure that the brake fluid INPUT from the master cyl should go in from the rear most connection. And the left to right rear brake.connections of the valve go from the left and right side

Added later: Just realised that I could be wrong - due to the camera angle making the curvature of one pipe merge into another. But worth looking at

[AustinSe7en]

Thank you All for your comments!
I think I’ve done 150mike already,
with a permanent grin on my face
Although that exhaust is a bit loud/drony
I think I may try putting a centre silencer in

[AustinSe7en]

Morning Se7en. 2nd photo down......thinking on my feet, haven't you got the brake pressure valve plumbed in wrongly? Happy to be corrected but I'm sure that the brake fluid INPUT from the master cyl should go in from the rear most connection. And the left to right rear brake.connections of the valve go from the left and right side

Added later: Just realised that I could be wrong - due to the camera angle making the curvature of one pipe merge into another. But worth looking at

Hi Peter
No matter how hard I tried, I could not get that picture the right way up!!
I see what you mean though, that picture is really deceiving!
Rest assured though, that the “pig tail” from the front is plumbed into the rear of the compensator!

[AustinSe7en]

Thank you All for your comments!
I think I’ve done 150miles already,
with a permanent grin on my face
Although that exhaust is a bit loud/drony
I think I may try putting a centre silencer in

[LoftyMk2]

Read this from start to finish this morning, excellent job you've done there, and the steel wheels just finish it off perfectly. Love it!

[AustinSe7en]

Thanks Lofty.
Still some bits and pieces to do, but now it’s on the road I’ve got a bit lazy!
Mind you, the weather is not being too kind at the moment!

[AustinSe7en]

A few bits and pieces that I have managed to do recently.
Bought new pocket liners, but they did not really fit very well, and never got round to painting them. So I decided to use the remaining crossmember carpet and cover them. Also had a bit of red hardura that I though I would stick to the inside of the metal pocket.

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Hopefully the carpet will hold the original board together nicely!

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Really chuffed with the end result, much more “plush”

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[AustinSe7en]

I was intending to get the rear seat base split repaired plus the foam and horse hair replaced before Beaulieu, but time is running out and with a bank holiday looming i would rather like to be able to clock up some miles! So a bit of a tidy up session was in order.
This was the current state of affairs!

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Glued a strengthening patch in behind the split.

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Then glued the cover back in place as best as I could.

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That will do for the time being.

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[AustinSe7en]

Fancied tarting things up a bit in the boot, so bought some aluminium strip to play with. Plus the some red Hardura.

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Spent blinkin hours cutting, rounding off and countersinking!

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Then flatting back with 1500 wet n’ dry for a satin finish.

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Pleased with the boot board, but can’t make my mind up whether I like the boot lid or not?
Did not want to glue anything to the lid, so couldn’t really cover the number plate area, not sure if I will leave it on or not!

[Peter Laidler]

Green and red inserts....... MMmmmmmm, I'm not so sure.......