1957 Ashley 750
Registration No. 437 PME
Alan Stevens 1957 Ashley 750
These Ashley 750 photo's and details were emailed to me by
Alan Stevens, the owner/builder in
May 2017
Just browsing the internet and saw your website, recognised the Ashley Logo, bingo!
The car was an Ashley body and hardtop from the
Robin Hood roundabout garage of the Ashley guys in early 1956.
It was a short wheelbase body for a 1931 Austin 7 and the
guys did the welding and boxed the chassis, etc, after I had
stripped everything off.
By then as a toolmaker apprentice I was past the point of no return.
1957 saw the car lifted over the 6 ft wall behind our house,
strapped to 2 scaffold planks, by the people in the neighbourhood,
who wanted me gone anyway.
The hardtop was too confining so it went, the brakes were non existent so I fitted Bowden hydraulics, great, the seat out of the rear of a Hillman, I think, looked nasty so in went fibreglass buckets
from I believe Ashley.
These Ashley 750 photo's and details were emailed to me by
Alan Stevens, the owner/builder in
May 2017
Just browsing the internet and saw your website, recognised the Ashley Logo, bingo!
The car was an Ashley body and hardtop from the
Robin Hood roundabout garage of the Ashley guys in early 1956.
It was a short wheelbase body for a 1931 Austin 7 and the
guys did the welding and boxed the chassis, etc, after I had
stripped everything off.
By then as a toolmaker apprentice I was past the point of no return.
1957 saw the car lifted over the 6 ft wall behind our house,
strapped to 2 scaffold planks, by the people in the neighbourhood,
who wanted me gone anyway.
The hardtop was too confining so it went, the brakes were non existent so I fitted Bowden hydraulics, great, the seat out of the rear of a Hillman, I think, looked nasty so in went fibreglass buckets
from I believe Ashley.
She was registered as a "1957 Austin Stevens" in Edmonton,
North London.
My soon to be wife and I drove the car every day for the next 4 years.
We moved to Swindon in 1960, had a baby girl and us
"threesome" went all over until we were expecting again in 1962.
I grudgingly sold my special in late 1961 and bought a new Mini, incidentally from the end of that short, Rays Road, where the car went over the wall in 1957.
I'm hoping to hear more about the story of this Ashley 750 soon,
I'm hoping to hear more about the story of this Ashley 750 soon,
BUT
If you have owned or have any other information about this
1957 Ashley 750 sports car
Registration No.
437 PME
(originally registered by Middlesex C.C. in 1957)
please email me on
Ashley.Sportiva@yahoo.com.au
or
use the contact page on this site to contact me.
If you have owned or have any other information about this
1957 Ashley 750 sports car
Registration No.
437 PME
(originally registered by Middlesex C.C. in 1957)
please email me on
Ashley.Sportiva@yahoo.com.au
or
use the contact page on this site to contact me.
