Vlog 64 to 67 - Haynes Austin 7

00:00 Introduction
00:40 Relic or hazard?
01:45 Art work or scrap?
02:50 The design process
04:37 HAYNES AUSTIN 7
05:57 John Sutton's 1967 trailer
07:05 Gearbox variations
08:24 Dash layout mockup
09:11 More Haynes photos
09:50 Next time

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I'm making a frame to mount a Reliant Robin engine, gearbox and pedals which then drops onto an Austin 7 chassis.

The Austin 7 chassis here is mine being used as a jig. The "customer" is the young son of my late friend who helped build my car back in the early 90s but died before completing his. His chassis is slightly different and modified. By building one big heavy over-thought complicated module "here" I hope to minimise installation time "there".

The wooden mock up frame went through a dozen iterations roughly a year before I was able to get back to the project and start cutting metal.

Filmed August 2024

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Thankyou to Junkyard Tom for getting me to film stuff at all. Alas me then doing an edit has been beyond me to this point so I've started these "one take phone cam updates" as something achievable. Done beats perfect. Hopefully in time they'll be a more polished version with the "live action" making footage.

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Sorry for the crackly sound. Thanks to Fitzee "cutting and butting" patches into rusty cars in Newfoundland I now understand why (plus a whole lot about metal working, and life) -

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