Today I agreed to sell my 60 plate morgan,milage 1395.I found I was not spending enough time with my austin seven.common sense says sell the Austin 7 and enjoy the morgan.in the morgan I will always arrive at my destination on time ,with no problems.with the Austin 7, I prepare a journey 2 days before,I never know if I will arrive at my destination,and it's to the nearest day, not time in hours and minites.I think I kept the seven for the excitement.

Location: denbigh

"Am I mad or is an Austin Seven an addiction".
In a word Peter; yes.
J

Location: As far east in Kent as you can get

Peter - it's a disease, which once contracted, is impossible to be eliminated by medical science. One thing, though - you get more sympathy than other diseases attract. Good Luck with your confinement. Cheers, Bill (in a Home for the bewildered).

Location: Euroa,Victoria

Not only are they addictive but if you are not extremely careful they breed!

Location: Auckland NZ

Randy little bleeders!

Location: HUNCOTE on the pig

I wouldn't worry in the slightest unless you are thinking about them before noon.

You need to be alert for signs of the inevitable onset of SPAS (Spare Part Acquisition Syndrome). The syndrome lasts well beyond car ownership and although not life threatening will normally be with the sufferer until death leaving a legacy of cardboard boxes for descendants.

Medical science is yet to conclude whether SPAS is hereditary or passed on by the above boxes.

Location: Fishbourne near Chichester

I find that "I prepare a journey 2 days before,I never know if I will arrive at my destination,and it's to the nearest day, not time in hours and minutes. I think I kept the seven for the excitement" is uncalled for the Seven is the essence of reliability. I used my RN saloon to commute into work in Manchester from the 1980s to the 2000s and after the initial jokes about it from my colleagues, these turned to admiration at it's reliability particularly when theirs had broken down and they asked for a lift home. Yes I did have the occasional failure, nothing serious which I was careful to keep my colleagues in the dark about, usually by rolling into a side street to effect a repair unseen.

My own experience precisely Dave but with the city being Bristol rather than Manchester.
Oh and an RK not an RN.
And 1964.

Location: Wessex

Location: HUNCOTE on the pig

I on the other hand always enjoyed the sense of excitement at setting off without knowing how far I might get. Not because the 7 is unreliable, but because my first Ruby had sat in a damp garage for 10 years.

After a year of ownership, the novelty of roadside repair had worn off, replaced with amazement at just how well the old girl performed.

That was followed by another Ruby, an RP, a '35 4 seat tourer and now a Speedex Silverstone... not all at the same time, but often overlapping.

I don't think of it as an addiction, though my poor long suffering wife may disagree!

As for the spares, she has given me strict orders not to go before her, unless I clear the garage first.

Got to sign off now. Hands starting to shake... need a fix of oil...

Nick

Ah yes Tony, however the 1 hour run from Nantwich took about 2 hours thanks to that BMW, but we (me and the car) did make it home under our own steam. No progress on the wing, the insurance engineer inspected the car on Monday and the body shop is waiting for the insurance company go ahead.
Yes Austin Sevens are addictive and if you leave two in the same garage you will soon have three, at least that's what we experienced.

I think we all get a medical condition called "Austinitis" . For Father's Day my son has presented me with a nice T shirt which has on the front a description of this condition.(Austinitis) noun. 1. Irrational fancy for Austin Seven cars leading to obsessive fiddling under car bonnet.
2. Tendency to muck about with cars.

Does this ring any bells.

John Mason.

Location: Nottinghamshire