Having provided a link to this site from facebook, I am so very conscious of not having done anything on the 101 for months and months. The email address is still current if people want to get in touch, and as soon as I have my flying licence, which ought to be in a the next month, if weather holds, I will get back down to the workshop and make progress.
One job which is lined up and for which all parts are ready, thanks to my mate John's machining skills, is the hanging of the new leaf-springs with hang-bolts which he has made beautifully.
Tinworm
Lost a lot of hair since the project started!
Austin 101
Good grief! As I winched it on to the transporter, blokes standing around assumed I was taking it to be crushed!
The correct 101 face
Not mine, but mine will be similar
The Austin 101 Express Delivery Van (launched 1957)
Pit Crew
John, Me, Carl and Paul (from left)...the day we got the van into a plot of land next to my workshop, having towed it from John's and then manoeuvred it through two gardens because I don't have road access!
Carl and John, who towed me.
Colin Smith - B Series Engine Guru
"Specials"
Morris sold the chassis and scuttles to commercial users to be coach-built as ambulances, butchers' shops, mobile snack bars, ice-cream vans and, like mine, milk-floats.
copyright of Harvey Pitcher
copyright of Harvey Pitcher
Mine will have looked a lot like the milkfloat above, once.... Except, of course, this is a JB, not a 101.
The Coachbuilder's Autograph
A highlight of the restoration - the discovery of the coachbuilder's autograph in pencil on an upright in the cab, when I stripped some aluminium skin off.
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