Austin Classics

With so much going on I have had little time to devote to the cars but finally I have ordered some wood to repair the seat with.

This is a picture of us at the Austin Centenary event in Longbridge 2005 when I first started this site.

It just so happened that we bought our car the year that the Austin Motor Company would have been 100 years old had it still been trading. We didn't even know this when we bought the car !!

I am begining to wonder if it is Classic Cars or Modern Computer technology that takes the most effort to maintain. The system running our web site went pear shaped and so here I am once again, installing software, fiddling with databse permissions and all manor of other exciting computer geek stuff to get the site back on-line.

Sorry about the down time but I hope that we will get things back on track soon and as they used to say in the 1930's all will be tickety-boo.

The drivers seat recently gave way on the Litchfield so I decided to remove it this afternoon to see what could be done to fix it.

Seems it is a lost cause as it is riddled with woodworm and will need to be completely replaced. Even the covering on the back of the seat has lots of small holes where the woodworm have escaped from. Looks like a crash course in woodwork & upholstery is in order to build a new chair. Anyone know what the original wood would have been, Ash or Beech maybe ?