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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
I learnt to drive in a 1931 Austin 7(no, I didn't buy it new and it cost me £7).
It had to be double-declutched and I only learnt how to do it after a night out on the beer. I could always do it after that and passed my test in it.
Anyone driven older than that?
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My father ran a funeral and wedding business in Todmorden and he had four big old Austin twenty sixes, two were 1938 models and two were a bit older but probably not as old as 1931. I drove them all when I passed my test at 17 years old.
Father also had a Rolls Royce hearse from about the 1920 and he let me move it about a bit when I was ten. My job was to go into the back and clean the windows and polish the silver plated flower holders. That was before he put the coffin in.
I bet your Austin Seven was only a four wheeler Gordon, not like this little van , a friend of mine was a manager at the firm it is advertising and he sent me the photo.
Did you know that the first cars that BMW made were on licence from Austin and were copies of the 7. I think they were called the Dixie.