1957 Austin/Ashley 750
Registration No. JJ 3050
Now
Registration No. 569 YUW
This is another Ashley 750 that I had no record of as existing, it has not shown up before and has not appeared on any of the registration index's that I have seen, hence it didn't appear on mine, until now.
September 2013
Contact with the owner - Peter Hales
I chose the wrong time to make the phone as no one was home and I had to leave a message with my website/email details and hope for the best, fortunately Peter checked the website and emailed me the next day with more information and more photo's.
The following details are from peter's email:
Known history of our car:
It was seen driving around South Wales in the late 1960s, registration number JJ 3050.
It was then advertised for sale in 1972, my father went to look at the car hoping to find an Austin 7 sports engine.
The car was stored at the back of a garage, it looked like it hadn't been driven for a few years.
The engine was a standard Austin 7 engine so my father wasn't interested in it.
The car again appears for sale (at a much reduced price) in 1974 and my father buys it for the engine and gearbox.
We were soon advised that we had bought an Ashley.
When we found the 1950's article in Motor Sport about Ashley's we concluded that this may have been one of the 'factory made' kits.
It has an Austin 7 chassis that has been 'boxed' and a tubular frame welded on to it.
Bellamy front suspension, Bowden 'over the top' front brakes, the Ashley 750 lwb body and sheet aluminum panels in the engine bay, cockpit and boot. The only thing really missing was seats (and a working gear change mechanism).
It had allegedly been raced but nothing about the car (engine, tyres, instruments etc) backed this up.
The car then sat at the back of our garage until last year when due to a lack of space we did actually get round to making it road worthy. We didn't really restore it, we just got everything to work and polished it.
The laminate colour is Green (we have had sprayed it Green as the original body did not polish).
Current registration number - 569 YUW (from August 2013)
Date first Registered - 20/12/1932 (under No. JJ 3050)
The chassis number is 166171
Ashley date - we estimate it at 1957 because the configuration of the rear chassis seems to change between the 1956 and 1957 in the Motor Sport adverts.
Our car has the 1957 configuration but there are weld marks on the chassis where they have removed/changed the position of the tubes from the 1956 locations.
It was in October 2013 that I had another
email from Peter
to tell me that he had sold the Ashley and that it had gone
to a guy in Switzerland.
To follow the story from this point
It was in October 2013 that I had another
email from Peter
to tell me that he had sold the Ashley and that it had gone
to a guy in Switzerland.
To follow the story from this point
Just a footnote:
This Registration No. JJ 3050 has been re-issued by the DVLA to a
Grey 2012 LandRover
So if you built, owned or have any other information about this
Austin/Ashley 750 car
Registration No.
JJ 3050
(originally registered by London C.C. between Nov 1932 & Feb 1933)
please email me on
[email protected]
or
use the contact page on this site to contact me
So if you built, owned or have any other information about this
Austin/Ashley 750 car
Registration No.
JJ 3050
(originally registered by London C.C. between Nov 1932 & Feb 1933)
please email me on
[email protected]
or
use the contact page on this site to contact me