Austin Ten Drivers Club

Ivor Hawkins wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 08, 2023 12:41 pm

Unless I had a totally original and unrestored car, I’d be tempted to buy an Austin Seven one, they are smaller and only about ten quid cheaper though!

And cut off the Seven of course

The bottom water branch lasts about 25 years in my experience. It was the first new parts project for the club back in the early 1970s when most 10s needed them and they were no longer obtainable.

Saturday had to use the RH recovery scheme when the 10 refused to go beyond the boundaries of BANES. I was given an ETA of 90 minutes and within that time the Hinton truck had arrived and the car loaded. Also got a text & call from Hinton telling me they were on the way and a call from RH to check t...

As requested in the magazine I have emailed the organiser with a positive response. I am already planning my Austin route to Northallerton

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BrianEvans wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 28, 2023 9:23 pm

Ah yes that’s exactly the same as ours and ours has broke in exactly the same place.

I have plans to glue it with a strip behind in support but the difficulty will be fitting it to the car without removing the radiator cowling & grill

Hi Peter, no I don’t have that forum,even when I click on members area and then in the green menu click on forum it just takes me back to the same again and then you have to log in yet again 🙄🙁 surely I’m not the only one with these problems ,or am I ? Brian & Jo As I understand it (and I am not a ...

Yes - when new with glass lens in metal rim and with a Lucas medallion on top of the body, rim and body chromed. Single filament bulb. A later model has the red dot in place of the medallion which enables you to check from the driving seat that the sidelight bulbs are working. The club has some used...

The 5" badge with holes at the ends is for the chrome rad cars. The Austin script badge on the cowled rads including the Cambridge is longer (6" the broken one I have) and does not have holes right thru the ends but is fastened from behind. Austin script badge - front view script-badge-front.jpg Aus...

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